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The Treasures of Montezuma 3
Developer Alawar Entertainment
Match tokens to unlock incredible riches in The Treasures of Montezuma 3! With Casual and Timed modes to enjoy, 160 levels to beat, and dozens of mind-bending mini-puzzles to solve, you could be in the jungle for months! From the Steam store page
126 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Aug 24, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
62
Fresh
78 positive · 47 negative
95% range 54–70%
| Source | + | − | = |
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| Steam reviews | 78 | 47 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
1 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mixed
431 of 660 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 126 · most liked firstA rather fun match-3 title, but I would absolutely recommend playing this before the also-on-Steam ToM4, because its sequel is a more polished and enhanced title which is just better.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is broken. After half an hour gameplay it crashes and as i see on the forum not only for me. Not recommended.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A match 3 game done by these people ( https://www.alawar.com ). Frankly it's disappointing when you discover a developer and publisher who are willing to hoodwink customers by continuing to sell a broken product on Steam with zero concern to fix it or in providing any productive feedback. This game has had a serious bug of just crashing after 20 - 30 minutes of gameplay since its release on Steam. The problem with this is, whatever treasure chest you are working on, if you have not saved any of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →3 match puzzle game with a bunch of crazy multipliers and powerups to unlock as you progress through the various levels. Game didn't crash on me for what I played it but I'd suggest getting the newer games in the series since those have achievements and get better reviews overall... most likely its this game + new modes and improvements so no need to spend your puzzler time on this one unless you really love your Montie.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →---{Graphics}--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ Free Fire ---{Gameplay}--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ It‘s just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{Audio}--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{Audience}--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☐ Adults ☑ All ---{PC Requirements}--- ☑ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Has a serious bug that causes it to crash after 20-30 minutes of play. Scoring seems inconsistent and pretty much impossible to meet on just the second 'room'
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →do not buy this game it freezes after 20-30 minutes and has been like this for quite some time.waste of money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played The Treasures of Montezuma 3,4,5 and I can tell that from all them - the 3rd one is the best: +The music is simply epic! +From the visual point of view, this one is very enjoyable, great gems color palette, easy to see background colors, great looking menu, great looking statues. I literally like everything here. +Gameplay - huge replayability, especially if you will play a game in a normal mode, and then again on hard mode, I have spent countless hours when I had no internet +Steam…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A good game, but you can only play for a half and hour before it freezes up. Plus, if you play for too long the music stops playing and then it freezes up. The game has beautiful graphics and ok music. 5/10.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very colorful and really easy game that's intended for casual gamers. It would be better on mobile but if you're into these types of games then try it out, on sale. Not worth the asking price.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Whoever says this game crashes too much needs to just download the 4gb patch. Really good and nostalgic. 10/10.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No one ever sees my reviews, just know its good and move along.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The classic match-3 game. In this version, we are waiting for a lot of levels, two difficulty modes, as well as improvements - which can be changed during the game. Pros: + Simple gameplay + Internal Achievements + Two difficulty levels + Trading cards for sale Minuses: - The game may freeze on new systems - Long loading levels for such an old game Total: A game from "childhood" that is ready to drag you into the cycle of crystals again - because of which you will lose a lot of time,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was going to give this a positive review, because I was about to finish it, and if you spend 10 hours on a game, maybe it's not that bad. Despite the regular crashes that take you back to the very beginning of your current 'treasure' (series of levels). Despite the ridiculous puzzle levels that require to solve 3 in a row to get an extra star -- I'm all fine with having to solve them one at a time, star or not, but 3 just completely kills the mood, so I just skipped those after a while.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DO NOT BUY ! BROKEN GAME ! NO REFUNDS ! At start, it seemed like a good game, had a lot of different options for upgrades, which changed the gameplay and were fun. I played it for about 10 hours and got to the final stages, but then ... All of a sudden, the game crashed and all the saved data was lost, thats 10 hours just lost. I am quite furious about it and feel cheated , also the game had mini crashes after like 30 minutes of playtime which would wipe the last 5 or so minutes of data…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good game. Five tombs. 8 chests each with four or five point objectives per chest. Play match 3 to cause the chests to open when you meet predefined point totals and collect all the medals from the chest. This part has a really nice balance to it. You're not guaranteed at any point to achieve the points and get a medal but neither is it so hard to achieve as to be frustrating. There are in game achievements. A few of them lack balance. For example to get the bronze medal for…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ludicrously difficult. The tile layout is random, and you have no control over what tokens drop, and no time to spend planning strategy, as each level is over in one minute, so your score for each level is largely a matter of luck. But you have to reach a certain high score in order to progress, and by the time you get to level 3-5 or thereabouts, you're only getting that score once in every ten or fifteen games. So you need to play each level over and over and over and over again waiting for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is broken. After half an hour gameplay it crashes and as i see on the forum not only for me. Not recommended.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Although this is a good game I cannot ecommend it. It is super buggy. The sound will drop out completely and it crashes all the time leading to lost progress. Pity because when you are able to play it, Montezuma is a decent game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Steam release STILL has a silly memory leak which means the game will ALWAYS crash in 20-40 minutes no matter what. It also only saves progress when you quit to main menu apparently, so yeah HOWEVER, the bug is exclusive to the Steam release, and otherwise the game's pretty fun as a more stylish Bejeweled, so, if you want, you could get the game "via some other, much cheaper means" like off internet archive sites that won't even require an installation
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand—the hand I worked with, played games with, and used to carry my children to bed—the hand…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the best match 3 series on steam. It has modern looking graphix with particle effects to mach. The gameplay is well polished. At first I really didn't like the idea of needing to break blocks on the bottom to collect gold and complete the level. I thought to my self “This is ridiculous scrounging along the bottom row for gold nuggets” and then it all made sense. There is upgradedable perks and instant power ups. It is well balanced enough that perks actually help. Adding replay value…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Excellent Match-3 game! I will continue playing it all weekend long. Best time waster!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Still beats the heck out of Candy Crush.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Keeps deleting my profiles, so that means i need to complete this game on ONE SESSION and that's never gonna happen! And fix for that..well how knows. But gameplay it's match 3 with special totem powers, but now game isn't working right and there is zero achievements (Contains game achievements)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun, but this game CRASHES CONSTANTLY. Every 5-6 rounds it freezes can crash your computer completely. This game has a massive memory leak that has been IGNORED for years. Simply DO NOT BUY this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun match 3 game, and very nostalgic for me personally. But it frequently runs out of memory and crashes, for me about every 30-45 minutes. One time it did not save any of my progress that session. These are literal game breaking problems. There are no graphic settings or a higher memory patch to offset this either. So if you hop in for casual 15-20 minute games, and like match 3, then yes. Play it. Though because of the genuine game breaking problems, i suggest waiting for a sale. Since it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its a fun game, not gonna lie, yet, the memory leak issue in this version is kind of annoying.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yada yada Game broken, memory leak Yada yada The green totem is kinda fruity tho
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is still broken it crash after hour, hour-and- half playing ! Devs dont patch anything of this bug called memory leaking. I cannot recommend it, dont buy still incomplete product !
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As so many others are complaining about already, the game crashes a lot and has several minor issues, too. However, the developer just ignores you and does not even respond to support enquiries. Okay, this is a casual game for a few Euros, but it could do a much longer time when it at least was fixed to work. Fortunately, the newer parts of the series are running well (for me) but are not the very same game. It still would therefore make sense to keep the whole series alive.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My mom has been playing match 3 games since Magic Lines in 2001, and this is by far her favorite one, so I got her the Steam version for the cloud saves. And the mobile version for travel, which she loves in spite of the typical mobile ads bs. This is the game she stuck with the most and never seems to get tired of, and she usually plays them over and over, on higher and higher difficulty. Well, the good ones at least. Stuff like Zumas/Luxors, Chuzzle, Bejeweled 3, Dynomite... Not to mention…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is a lot to like about the game. The visuals are really nice and the soundtrack is fitting the theme of treasure hunting in some Aztec ruin. The game has an annoying bug on Windows 10. After about half an hour it may freeze with a runtime error. Although there's no word about Windows 10 in the system requirements I expect a game sold on a store to work on modern hard- and software. My biggest gripe though is the inconsistency of the scoring system. As you progress through the game you'll…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →game keeps crashing without reason
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Treasures of Montezuma 3 Game Review A classic elimination game that I played a few years ago. You have to get the highest score possible in 1 min to unlock each treasure chest. After you open a chest, you'll receive a magic star to unlock special totems and totem gods. Such a thrill feeling reminds me of the old time and gives me the excitement which can only be feel in a true adventure. May you guys acquire better playing experience!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Боже! Мне иногда кажется, что лучше Монтесум еще игр не изобрели!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is good for a Match 3. the only problem I have with it is every 30mins-1hour it freezes up with a runtime crash: Description: A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows. So, with that I cannot recommend this game at time of review, I will change it if they fix the problem.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For some reason m game keeps on crashing im the middle of game for no reason nad whenever i came back it restart the whole section level of medals
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Old graphics and repetitive levels make you lose interest quickly. feels like the game hasn't been updated in ages and turns into boring routine. disappointment for fans of match-three puzzles looking for something fresh.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game does have a memory leak issue, but it's not a bad one. I discovered if you Alt+F4 the second you lose game sound, you can avoid crashing and having to restart your PC. It'll just crash and boot you back to your Steam Library. Fun game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a fun game. If you have or had a PS Vita, you might have played TOM Blitz, the modes of this game are liken to that, but on steroids compared to the PS Vita game. But there is a terrible glitch, to avoid it quit and restart every so often. Then comes a worse glitch, the total game freeze when everything was A-OK and points were racking up in great style ... and your game save is lost to the past. Restarting, the game is new again. It's very defeating to have that happen. I don't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really loving this game. The design is smart, it's fun. The puzzles are challenging and the entire game is visually impressive. Unfortunately It doesn't want to seem to run for more than 20 minutes before crashing. The first time what seemed like it may have been a graphics card issue and now this second time Visual C blank error box and total freeze. The game does seem to run but in between some serious crashes that require a good old three key salute to get back to windows. Hopefully this…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Treasures of Montezuma 3 is a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as if it was a real PC game (it's not)... it's a cash grab from greedy mobile devs. The Treasures of Montezuma 3 is yet another of literally hundreds of mobile app Match-3/Bejewelled/Candy Crush ripoff games infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. This mobile app match-3 game, invariably a copy + paste of dozens of other match-3 games infesting Steam from the same template, has an…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This the 4th time i have been to the 4 door and the 4th time the game has crashed i lost all save data.Have to start all over again.It also crashes in between .but you only lose the chest that you're at then.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really like this game. I finished it like 30x when I was little. ;) It's basically about matching 3 or more gems together with some extra bonuses, powerups and most importantly gods, which help you get higher score.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very enjoyable Match-3. However, it freezes after 30 to 60 minutes of play, and sometimes requires a hard shutdown to recover. I know the 4th and 5th installment are also good and I do not remember any freeze issues with those. If you doi not mind having to restart every so often it is still fun!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Frequent crashes and freezes on windows 7. 8, 8.1 and 10 due to memory leak bug. As of 2018-09-20, there is no patch, and it seems there will not be one. Other than that, a nice game to play while listening to a newscast while your breakfast is getting ready.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ahhh it was way better working when I pirated it ages ago... You could think after all those years the game will be polished and working fine, but it's not - client seems to be broken, freezes after some time and also sound effects start being buggy at some point. Too bad.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is not one of those "intelligent" m3 games, all you have is frenzy mode to do many points in 1 minute run. And points are given in very arbitrary way. That could still keep the game neutral or even up, but it has random crashes coupled with braindead design that does not save progress after every completed run. What means then the crash hits you lose all your progress from the last launch. Yey. You had that lucky run after a dozen tries and now it never happened. :(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →**WARNING** This game is addictive 99/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Colorful graphics and interesting unlocks, but too fast paced for my liking. There is nothing casual about this game's "casual mode".
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Perhaps the best match 3 game on the PC
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Я просто не могу оторваться от этой игры. Это тяжелый наркотик. Нельзя так делать.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Classic match-3 game, highly recommend!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It was entertaining, the only bad thing was it crashed constantly for me, but my computer is 8 years old so that could be the reason. I just installed # 4 so I liked it enough to get the next one.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I LOVE THIS GAME
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am not generally a fan of match-3 games. They seldom have enough depth or replay value to keep me coming back for more. The Treasures of Montezuma series is a rare exception. The totems idea is fun and gives the different colored blocks a lot more meaning, which is unique to these games. I played through ToM 1 and 2 many years ago when I first found out about Alawar Games and thoroughly enjoyed them, and they seem to have improved since then. I eagerly anticipate playing through ToM 4 and 5…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A bit more focused on speed than I would like but still fun.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nostalgic game but it keeps crashing at a certain time
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game made me go back in my childhood ,the golden era childhood <3 Zuma 4 Life! Best game!
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