METAL GEAR SOLID - Master Collection Version
Fair · Shooter · 2023
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 11.2h
- Value
- $1.78/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Next sale
- Autumn Sale, Oct 1 to 8
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($13.99)
- Last discount ended
- 183 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 / Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000, 9 GB of storage. Windows only.
The first 3D title in the METAL GEAR series pioneering a new level of stealth action with live action footage, cinematic cut scenes, and innovative gameplay.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $9.99. That was June 2025. Its cuts run 20 percent off as a rule. There have been 11 in the 3 years tracked, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 26 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 35 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, METAL GEAR SOLID 3: Snake Eater - Master Collection Version ($19.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats METAL GEAR SOLID 2: Sons of Liberty - Master Collection Version ($19.99, scores 49).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 49 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 779 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 92 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 48 percent of the 668 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
Players
About 63 players at once, as of Sep 25.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
METAL GEAR SOLID - Master Collection Version scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2131630/metal-gear-solid-master-collection-versionReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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