METAL GEAR SOLID 2: Sons of Liberty - Master Collection Version
Worth it · Shooter · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 13.2h
- Value
- $1.51/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($13.99)
- Last discount ended
- 190 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, 17 GB of storage. Windows only.
The fourth game in the METAL GEAR series: set over two incidents in 2007 and 2009, featuring Solid Snake and Raiden, introducing new stealth gameplay features.
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
June 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $9.99. 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 27 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 16 percent on value. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, METAL GEAR SOLID 3: Snake Eater - Master Collection Version ($19.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats METAL GEAR SOLID - Master Collection Version ($19.99, scores 53).
Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 13.2-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 499 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 56 percent of the 318 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 13.2 hours; clearing it takes 29, which is 2.2 times the campaign.
At 13.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
67% start to 6% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 13.2-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
223 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 02:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
A brilliant sequel. Sure, Raiden catches a lot of hate, but his chapter really isn't that bad once you get past the initial shock. The core gameplay refines stealth mechanics with first-person aiming, body dragging, and slick new gadgets, while the boss fights and area designs feel more polished. Story-wise, it's a classic Kojima mind-trip packed with an absurd number of twists. This PC port runs great, with only a...
initially i didn't like this game at (first part of plant section of the game), i didn't enjoy the bomb defusing or the lack of good codec calls which i loved about mgs1, but the second part of this game is just everything it's pretty good.
I really recommend downloading the MGS2 HD Fix patch from Nexus Mods before playing this game, especially if you happen to play on more than one device, it can possibly prevent you from losing a ton of progress. I play on Steam Deck and a Windows PC with Steam Cloud saves enabled and something happened between sessions the other day that caused my save file to get corrupted. Unfortunately there was not a way to...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
METAL GEAR SOLID 2: Sons of Liberty - Master Collection Version scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2131640/metal-gear-solid-2-sons-of-liberty-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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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