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Paganitzu cover art

Paganitzu

Apogee Entertainment · 2014-05-05

Steam

ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 05, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 05, 2014 (Mac)

Journey into an Aztec pyramid and survive the adventure of a lifetime! No other game forces you to die in order to complete it! That's just one of many incredible plot twists in this excellent puzzle-oriented arcade-adventure game. Guide Alabama Smith (Al) into a vast and dangerous Aztec pyramid.

73%
positive of 71 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)
Paganitzu is a puzzle video game created by Keith Schuler and published by Apogee Software for IBM PC compatibles in 1991. It is the sequel to Chagunitzu. The player controls Alabama "Al" Smith, who works his way through an ancient Aztec pyramid while solving Sokoban-like puzzles.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 3 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity down 40% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 44% of 29,056 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.8k–4.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 71 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.74 at Fanatical (2023-11-20) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 10 of 20 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220152026Week of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$29.99$0.792015-05-052026-10-082015-05-05 — best price $29.992015-09-08 — best price $4.992017-11-01 — best price $4.992019-01-03 — best price $4.992020-01-27 — best price $4.992020-07-16 — best price $3.662020-08-20 — best price $3.662020-09-16 — best price $3.662020-10-05 — best price $4.492020-11-01 — best price $4.992020-11-19 — best price $3.662020-12-23 — best price $3.662021-01-09 — best price $3.662021-02-17 — best price $3.582021-03-21 — best price $4.992021-06-16 — best price $4.992021-07-21 — best price $3.662021-08-11 — best price $3.662021-09-05 — best price $3.662021-10-11 — best price $3.662021-11-16 — best price $3.662021-12-06 — best price $3.662022-01-14 — best price $4.492022-02-21 — best price $4.492022-03-25 — best price $4.492022-04-15 — best price $4.492022-05-01 — best price $4.492022-06-12 — best price $4.492022-07-17 — best price $4.492022-08-29 — best price $4.492022-11-22 — best price $0.992023-04-03 — best price $0.792023-08-25 — best price $3.662023-12-21 — best price $0.992024-04-08 — best price $0.992024-12-19 — best price $0.992025-03-20 — best price $4.992025-12-24 — best price $3.742026-07-09 — best price $4.992026-10-08 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

Retro1990'sActionPuzzleClassicAdventurePixel Graphics

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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