METAL GEAR SOLID 3: Snake Eater - Master Collection Version
Worth it · Shooter · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 15.8h
- Value
- $1.27/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, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is the origin story of Naked Snake and his mentor The Boss and the fifth title in the METAL GEAR series.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
June 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $9.99. 11 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 20 percent off, roughly 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 27 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 12 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Tomb Raider Game of the Year ($19.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats METAL GEAR SOLID 2: Sons of Liberty - Master Collection Version ($19.99, scores 69).
Steam's global achievement data puts 40 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 51 were written by buyers who refunded it, 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 1,071 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 153 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 730 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
73% start to 40% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
Another masterpiece by HIDEO KOJIMA loved the story now im going to play mgs4 thank u kojima for these beautiful games
Having played Metal Gear Solid (MGS), many would say that the next logical step would be to play Metal Gear Solid 2. Soy I played Metal Gear Solid 3 (MGS3). The difference between the games I have mentioned is sustantial, but they keep the core idea, expanding the tools given to the player to complete the game. And damn, how many tools are available. Sometimes I felt like I was in a sort of espionage simulator; the...
It's great, another certified Kojima story with good gameplay. First Metal Gear game to actually offer stealth gameplay and not puzzle box map design. Feels great to play, memorable characters, great boss fights, less convoluted story. Recommend.
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Cite this score
METAL GEAR SOLID 3: Snake Eater - Master Collection Version scores 74/100 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/2131650/metal-gear-solid-3-snake-eater-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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