METAL GEAR & METAL GEAR 2: Solid Snake
Fair · Action · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8.1h
- Value
- $2.47/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 / Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The first and second title in the METAL GEAR series that established the stealth action genre, as well as the basic mechanics of the series.
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
The lowest price on record is $19.99, set in June 2026. In 3 months of price history it has never once been discounted.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 13 percent on value. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, METAL GEAR SOLID - Master Collection Version ($19.99, scores 53) beats it on value, while it beats Souldiers ($19.99, scores 26).
Of the 425 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 172 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 8.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
87% start to 6% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Save system should be changable to normal saving as almost any games ever does it. Save system does not trigger a notification of checkpoint reached, no matter how much work you did in that area, as long as you didn't went into a room that counts as checkpoint, your progress won't be saved. which ultimately means that manual saves simply does not serve any purpose! WTF?! It's auto save basically doesn't matter...
I appreciate the games for what they are but damn these games were a pain to finish without a guide
Hopping into Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake via the Master Collection is basically taking a wild, unfiltered history lesson in stealth gaming. The first game on the MSX is definitely a bit rough around the edges, feeling more like a cryptic 8-bit puzzle where you will genuinely wonder how anyone beat it without a strategy guide or a hotline. But once you roll right into Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, the shift...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
METAL GEAR & METAL GEAR 2: Solid Snake scores 50/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2131680/metal-gear-metal-gear-2-solid-snakeReviews 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 27, price as of Sep 27.
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