PAC-MAN Mega Tunnel Battle: Chomp Champs

My first reaction when I heard 'Pac-Man battle royale with cross-platform maze invasion' was genuine curiosity. The core hook is real: 64 players each own a maze, eat dots to score points, and can tunnel into neighboring mazes to steal pellets, activate power items, or eat rival Pac-Men directly. As eliminations stack up, the grid of mazes shrinks, forcing survivors into tighter showdowns until one Chomp Champ remains. Matches run roughly 10 minutes, the power items, Pac Shield, Speedy Pac, Ghost Attract, Extra Life, add light tactical wrinkles, and there is a genuine thrill the first time an opponent barrels into your maze while you are on your last life. The problem is that the thrill fades fast, and the game never did enough to sustain it. Critics and players consistently pointed to the same issues: Elimination Mode and Ranked Mode play identically, Ranked is locked behind Level 10 (meaning a grind of repetitive matches before you touch it), and there is no offline mode whatsoever beyond a short tutorial. The AI bots that fill lobbies when human player counts thin out are pushover-tier, meaning you can win most games without ever leaving your own maze. That single design flaw undercuts the entire invasion mechanic the game is built around. Why take risks in someone else's maze when doing nothing usually works? On top of the thin content, reviews called out a cluttered UI, forgettable music, and a presentation that reads more free-to-play than premium. Some cosmetics and maze themes based on classic Bandai Namco IPs were paywalled behind DLC packs on top of the base purchase price. The mission system, which nudges you toward invading other mazes, reportedly failed to register completion reliably, adding friction to the one mechanic the game needed to work flawlessly. Here is the information that makes all of the above moot for any buyer in 2026: the game was delisted from storefronts on November 1, 2025, and its servers shut down on January 8, 2026. The game is online-only with no offline fallback, which means any copy you encounter today is functionally unplayable. This is not the first time a Bandai Namco Pac-Man battle royale experiment met this fate, Pac-Man 99 was discontinued two years after launch, and the original Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle died with Google Stadia in January 2023. Chomp Champs was always a question of when, not if. The answer turned out to be less than two years after its May 2024 launch. Nostalgic curiosity is not enough of a reason to spend money on a title whose servers are dark.

Alex · Scout Team

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