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PAC-MAN MUSEUM+
Developer NOW PRODUCTION
Pac-Man Museum+ is a 2022 video game compilation developed by Now Production and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Being a sequel to the 2014 compilation title Pac-Man Museum, Pac-Man Museum+ includes 14 games from the Pac-Man series, with additional features such as missions and online leaderboards. The compilation was released worldwide on May 27, 2022, on Windows via Steam, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4,… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
219 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
79
LovedLoved
142 positive · 37 negative
95% range 73–85%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 142 | 37 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 6 | 4 | 22 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 2 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
417 of 490 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
80% recommend · 144 yes, 37 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 181 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (551 of 635 positive).
Many players praise the inclusion of Pac-Man Arrangement (1996) as a standout game. [1][2][3] Some reviewers complain about input lag and control issues that hurt gameplay. [4][5][6] Several players note the lack of control remapping and other interface problems. [7][8][9]
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Representative posts
- [4]
This is a pretty sad negative review, but I don't feel this collection is worth recommending in its current state. There's an odd amount of input lag for the games, which makes the reflex reliant original Pac-Man come off as sluggish. You might try to fight the input lag, but it'll just result in you losing your rhythm. Pac-Man at its best puts you in a flow state, but the lag just pulls you out of it. On paper this …
- [14]
I mean if your a PAC-MAN fan. You'll love this game and all of its old tittles. Even it's god awful completions list that i went through to get. Well these are my rankings of all the games in this collection. As well as how difficult it was for me to finish their missions. PAC-MAN -7/10 (Missions difficulty BRUTAL) SUPER PAC-MAN -6/10 (Missions difficulty HARD) PAC & PAL -6/10 (Missions difficulty HARD) PAC-LAND …
- [1]
worth it for pac man arrangement alone- great collection og games- too bad there is no ms pacman
- [3]
It has Pac-Man Arrangement (1996), the single best maze game, therefore it is an easy recommend. It perfected the formula with cornering, a fifth ghost that powers up the other ghosts but with the added benefit of higher scoring potential, and more varied maze design. There are jump and dash panels, bigger dots that causes you to decrease speed (some of them even change sizes in intervals), and even a boss fight at …
- [2]
Get it just for Pac-Man Arrangement. Just TRY to beat Arrangement without any continues. It is strangely addicting. Please send help.
Summarised from 34 of the 221 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
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Players who liked PAC-MAN MUSEUM+ talk about includes a variety of classic and modern Pac-Man games; those who didn't talk about input lag makes games feel sluggish and unresponsive. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Pac-Man Museum+ received "mixed or average" reviews according to review aggregator website Metacritic. Nintendo Life gave the title an 8 out of 10 and praised its emulation quality, interesting overworld setup, missions, online leaderboards, and the comprehensive collection of Pac-Man's history while criticizing the implementation of the CRT filter, the arcade overworld framerate, and a vertical synchronization issue present in Pac-Land. Push Square thought favorably of the large variety of games, interactive wrapper, and emulation quality, but took minor issue with input lag and a few poor game selections.
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 219 · most liked firstThough some games in Pac-Man Museum+ had sprites altered to reflect the current appearance of Pac-Man's family, one instance was mistakenly left unchanged. Ms. Pac-Man can still be spotted in the credits sequence for Pac-Man Arrangement (2005). Note: Previous ports of this game omitted the credits.
neutral · AI labelView post →Players are able to unlock items from an in-game Gashapon in Pac-Man Museum+. Gashapon are common real-life capsule toy vending machines (often with toys based on licenses), and Bandai have been producing them since 1977.
neutral · AI labelView post →Have you ever wondered what the ghosts taste like?
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has one MAJOR flaw that I'm shocked nobody noticed during playtesting. I have a 75% sized keyboard which doesn't have an insert key.... You NEED to press the insert key to put tokens into the machines to play.... There is NO way to remap the controls.... So basically I'm softlocked here. With no way to insert tokens I cant play any of the coin-op games in the collection unless I exclusive play on my Steam Deck. Why the devs wouldnt make this remappable is quite frankly ubsurd and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Players are able to unlock items from an in-game Gashapon in Pac-Man Museum+. Gashapon are common real-life capsule toy vending machines (often with toys based on licenses), and Bandai has been producing them since 1977.
neutral · AI labelView post →Don't mess with the PAC-MAN or you gonna get eaten! *later* Pac-man goes to toilet...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Players are able to unlock items from an in-game Gashapon in Pac-Man Museum+. Gashapon are common real-life capsule toy vending machines (often with toys based on licenses), and Bandai have been producing them since 1977.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is a pretty sad negative review, but I don't feel this collection is worth recommending in its current state. There's an odd amount of input lag for the games, which makes the reflex reliant original Pac-Man come off as sluggish. You might try to fight the input lag, but it'll just result in you losing your rhythm. Pac-Man at its best puts you in a flow state, but the lag just pulls you out of it. On paper this is a very good package, 14 Pac-Man games for $20, but most aren't the best…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fix the latency, Namco
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To date, 2015's Pac-Man 256 is the only mobile game in the franchise to be ported to home consoles Released on PS4 and Xbox One for $4.99 USD (and more recently made available via Pac-Man Museum+), Pac-Man 256 removes the in-app purchases of the mobile version and dons four-player co-op multiplayer
neutral · AI labelView post →Played on the Steamdeck [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45534557/]@MatureContent Some of these old Pac Man games are really strange and most of them not really that good. So, you pretty much just walk around this small and really loud room full of old Pac-Man arcade machines, that all play their own theme songs simultaneously. So, I recommend lowering your volume before playing. There are like 10 or so different arcades to choose from, where some of them have to be unlocked by…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Pac-Man Museum+" addresses a glaring omission that has plagued arcade game compilations for years, by adding a Gashapon™ machine to your virtual arcade.
neutral · AI labelView post →playing with a real arcade pro stick with surround sound at deafening foundation shaking volume this is the only path left to enlightenment
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pac-Man Arrangement 1996 is sauced up
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I mean if your a PAC-MAN fan. You'll love this game and all of its old tittles. Even it's god awful completions list that i went through to get. Well these are my rankings of all the games in this collection. As well as how difficult it was for me to finish their missions. PAC-MAN -7/10 (Missions difficulty BRUTAL) SUPER PAC-MAN -6/10 (Missions difficulty HARD) PAC & PAL -6/10 (Missions difficulty HARD) PAC-LAND -7/10 (Missions difficulty MEDIUM) PAC-MANIA -9/10 (Missions difficulty MEDIUM)…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →+ Different Pac-Man games + Every game has some missions to achieve + Completing the missions adds extra stuff to Your Pac-Man museum - Too hard achievements - Some achievements appear to be buggy
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's Pac-Man. What's not to love? Plus the option to customize your own arcade. I haven't played them all yet. Epic classics.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Namco museum 1 was like a fully 3d first person museum which even had dipswitches for games. Pac-Man Museum+ in 2022 gives you a tiny 3d arcade to plop down 5 copies of pac and pal to access arcade emulators which dont even have basic control remapping .
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is my Pac-Man Museum+ Review, so let's get into it, we'll start off with the pros first, this collection has some good classics and modern type pac-man games all mixed into one big collection with my top five listed below. Top 5: Pac-Man Pac-Man Arrangement '96 Pac-Mania Pac-Man Championship Edition Pac-Man 256 There's plenty of other great ones in this collection as well, I also like how you can customize your own arcade with the vending machines as well as play the arcade machines…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The games themselves are good, but if you can get them elsewhere, do that instead. This is an absolutely atrocious way to do a rerelease. 1- A lot of these games are behind a "playwall". "Play game X twice to play game Y". It gets annoying fast when that one game you didn't already have is behind multiple layers of playwalls, "guarded" by games you've already played to death or just don't like that much. 2- The arcade you have to go through is noisy and ugly. 3- On my main PC it runs fine, but…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →worth it for pac man arrangement alone- great collection og games- too bad there is no ms pacman
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →get the pac man champion games instead, the controls lag so much to make the games simply not fun to play.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Get it just for Pac-Man Arrangement. Just TRY to beat Arrangement without any continues. It is strangely addicting. Please send help.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You see, a glaring flaw with Pac-Man Museum+ (on Switch 1 at least) is if you play one of the emulated games for long enough, it gradually lags out into unplayability. So I put the game to the test by playing through levels of Pac-in-Time to see if it would happen on Switch 2.
negative · AI labelView post →Pac-Man Arrangement (arcade) is so good. Also OG Championship Edition > DX
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It has Pac-Man Arrangement (1996), the single best maze game, therefore it is an easy recommend. It perfected the formula with cornering, a fifth ghost that powers up the other ghosts but with the added benefit of higher scoring potential, and more varied maze design. There are jump and dash panels, bigger dots that causes you to decrease speed (some of them even change sizes in intervals), and even a boss fight at the end! If you want to experience the magnum opus of the Pac-Man series, this…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game might be fine for Switch, but they clearly didn't optimize this game for PC at all. You can't just play games, you have to actually use the in game currency to play them which is just stupid. The button controls are super messy. The music in the arcade is just a cacophony of 8-bit sounds, it's absolutely annoying I had to just turn BGM all the way down. And forget trying to do multiplayer on a game like this, why even bother. I bought Pac-Man 256 separately and it works amazingly.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pac-man Arrangement 1996 arcade is the only reason I brought the game entirely. Now I'm hoping if Namco releases others Arrangements in a another game pack.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[Game Bundle] Bandai Namco: Fights, Frights, and Fantasy. $10: * PAC-MAN MUSEUM+ * [COUPON] Tales of Arise - 25% Off Coupon * [COUPON] One Piece Odyssey - 50% Off Coupon * GOD EATER 3 * Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition * .hack//G.U. Last Recode * Tekken 7 * Code Vein * Katamari Damacy REROLL
neutral · AI labelView post →This man is pretty pac
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game won't allow you to alter controls and makes you use the INSERT button to start a game. Most keyboards are eliminating INSERT keys, so I can't play any of the games in this at all.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So there's this fun issue that a select few have (it may pertain to using Dualshock 4, but that'd require me spending money on another controller to test and ♥♥♥♥ that) where the game will recognise the controller being connected, the icons for the controller's buttons will come up, it'll react when disconnected as it would normally, and yet no inputs are detected. From what I can see this happens with a few others online, and there's no discernible fix because it happens so infrequently that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →input lag my ass good collection also has arcade arrangement so like you cant pass that up
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Waka waka, mother ♥♥♥♥♥♥. I hear the pellets being eaten when I close my eyes.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →GFN Thursday: ‘Nightingale’ on GeForce NOW | NVIDIA Blog. ``` It’s part of 11 new games this week: * Le Mans Ultimate (New release on Steam, Feb. 20) * Nightingale (New release on Steam, Feb. 20) * Terminator: Dark Fate – Defiance (New release on Steam, Feb. 21) * Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator (New release on Steam, Feb. 22) * Pacific Drive (New release on Steam, Feb. 22) * Solium Infernum (New release on Steam, Feb. 22) * Katamari Damacy REROLL (Steam) Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series (Steam) *…
neutral · AI labelView post →I mean, what do you expect it's a collection of pac man games they're all pretty solid
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's packed with a lot of PAC-MAN! PAC-MAN MUSEUM+ is a nice collection of old PAC-MAN games. Some of which I never had the chance to play in the past. I like how you get to manage your own virtual arcade and place the arcade machines and collectible items such as posters, balloons, statues and other odd items. From the start not every game is available to play. You have to achieve certain goals, mostly high scores in the games you do have available. Each game has various achievements that…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's been several years, but we were playing this right next to a 44 year old original yesterday on 13-August, and yes, the current version is quite laggy and drops inputs. This is really outrageous that something that is so low memory seems to be so hard to emulate.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Did you know that Pac-Man Museum+ only records your score if you get a game over? And that if you beat the game and the final boss it doesn't count as a game over? Imagine getting through 50 levels of jank, thinking"that was rough, but at least I got a decent score" and then seeing this:
negative · AI labelView post →Its a good collection of Pac Man gaems, Though a bit laggy.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Almost every game has broken sound, poor scaling and input lag. Can't change lives or difficulty. No Remote Play Together.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDyEmbk2RVs] 'Cause I got Pac-Man Fever! Pac-Man Museum+ is a lot like the Namco Museums of yesteryear, exempting the Pac-Man focus and the diegetic interface. It's a celebration of Pac-Man's past, and even if some of these games have been spotted in other Namco Museums, the collection on display here is eclectic enough to warrant a look. There's the classics; Pac-Man, Super Pac-Man, Pac-Mania, the ones you've likely seen in other Pac-Man or Namco Museum…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →pac-man ᗧ···ᗣ···ᗣ··
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As such, I did not get around to updating Pac-Man Museum+ in time, either. However, each update brought to Pac-Man Museum+ only ever added in-game wallpapers to use for the arcade HUB. I believe the crash experienced here would happen whether or not the game has been updated.
neutral · AI labelView post →it's pretty good pac-in-time sucks ass tho
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pac-Man Arrangement is the only real reason I bought this, but everything else ranges to great at best (Pac-Man 256) to absolute trash that no one should play (looking at you PAC-IN-TIME). But even then, I would still recommend this, but maybe wait for a sale.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you're autistic, This is the game for you.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →bugged movement, great game but don't buy it with full price
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pac-Mom is NOT as hot as Ms. Pac-Man, stop feeding me with lies Namco.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am an old school gamer (51 years old). I remember playing pac man years ago in the arcade, and on various computers and consoles. I had not realised that there were now so many different versions of pac man. I got this game in a sale and I have had a lot of fun playing it. I introduced my niece to pac man a few years ago on a PSP, and she loved it. She is eleven years old and plays this a lot. It is a great game, and well worth the money if you are a pac man fan who wants a bit of nostalgia.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Basically just a port of a bunch of bad Pac-man games and the original. The only difference between this and just playing the arcade games is the arcade customizing part of the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An interesting curiousity, but quite poorly done. Simple things like navigating menus and joypad mapping are a pain. Would only get at a very big discount.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Truly a worthy collection if you love the original Pac-Man games!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I’m a sucker for retro game compilations, and for some reason, there aren't a bunch on Steam rn. The 14 games included are pretty neat, I especially appreciate Pac-Man 256’s inclusion. Biggest gripe, ofc, is that Ms. Pac-Man isn’t included. $20 is a bit much for games you likely already have the roms of stashed away somewhere, I got this for $10 during the steam sale, and I feel like that was even a bit much.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I gor this game just for Pac-Land. I don't regret it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A nice collection of Pacman games. Not all games are playable from the start but can be unlocked by playing other Pac games a couple of times each. The biggest downside is vsync does not work in the games themselves and only in the lobby. Playing games with scrolling (Pacland, Pacman 256, etc) is a visual mess of screen tearing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Despite the lack of Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures causing me genuine pain and this collection really being more of an arcade than a museum as there is no concept art or interviews or real development information for each title, this is still a bundle of Pac-Man games that nobody should hesitate to buy! The amount of replayability these classics have been given through missions along with the freedom to customize your arcade in a variety of cool ways is simply too sweet! My personal tier list of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it is insanely annoying that several of the games, notably the *best* part of this package, PAC-MAN ARRANGEMENT, is locked behind challenges. Even if it's basic, playing PAC-MANIA for 2 times is really not my idea of fun just to get to the game i bough this for, lol! but i'm leaving this as recommended anyways cuz pac-man arrangement is really good i guess
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A must have for any Pac-Man fan
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i'd rather use mame
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →
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