This is a really solid Pac-Man collection with a lovely presentation. I appreciate it making the titles unlockable by playing other games twice, which opened my eyes to other Pac-Man games that are pretty sick that I would normally have overlooked for CE.

What marks the game down tho is that Pac-Man Battle Royale doesn't have online play, which I feel like is the only way to play that on console. It's very much a multiplayer experience, and locals cuts its potential short.

Also it's lacking all the World games. Just turn Ms. Pac-Man into Pac-Mom and call it a day, I wanna play Pac-Man World 2 on something that isn't my dusty Gamecube at this point!

Other than that it's pretty good, I would recommend it. You can't go wrong getting it on Game Pass, since that's """free""".

a solid collection! it's a really cute package with an alright selection of games. would have loved if they threw in some of the pac-man world games and got some quirkier ones like pac motos and pac n roll. the only big omission i don't understand is ms. pac-man. stuff like pac-man, pac-mania, pac-man arrangement (and less so the remake), championship edition, and pac-man 256. the rest range from not great to awful though. for 20 dollars if you're a pac-man fan and wanna run through some of the weirder pac-man games in a really well put together package with a fun customizable arcade room this is well worth your time!

Probably one of the best collections out there, up there with Sonic Mega Collection and Kirby's Dream Collection. 14 games, some of which haven't gotten good rereleases in ages, or flat out have never been released outside of arcades getting full accessible releases is great.

Only major downsides are that Mrs. Pac-Man isn't here for relatively predictable reasons, that game is a rights nightmare, Pac-In-Time is a surprisingly unenjoyable game, and holy shit, who thought it was a good idea to have the main lobby's theme be a cacophonous mess of Pac-Man arcade noises and SFX haphazardly over-layed over one another. I know it's supposed to sound like an arcade of Pac-Man games running at once, but in the end it straight up sounds like a garbled mess and is terrible to listen to. Something more chill and low-tempo such as History from Sonic Mega Collection would've been more befitting to make me actually want to hang out in the lobby some and just simply sit around.

Steam Verification: Playable

I don't know why this isn't verified on the Steam page as this works with 0 issues at all and I don't need to use the touch screen or Steam Deck keyboard for anything. The game also automatically maps the controls perfectly.

Note: I did play this with Gamepass on the SteamDeck maybe actually playing it on Steam there could be issues but I wouldn't know.

It's Pac-Man. What else is there to say? The digital arcade frontend is cute enough (though I do miss the museum aspect of the previous collections...), and the games are emulated quite well. The achievements are probably what's going to keep you busy for the longest time, but i personally just wasn't into them. The Ms Pac-Man stuff is a bit of a bummer, but at the end of the day it doesn't really affect the games themselves. A shame Ms Pac-Man itself couldn't be on the collection due to all the legal bullshit though. This game could have really popped off if they just added more games via dlc or something but they didn't, kind of a bummer. As it is though, the collection is fine and a good way to replay a lot of these classics.