METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED

METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED

Skip · RPG · 2024

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 29, under the fair line, at $9.99.

Length
7.7h
Value
$1.30/hr
Reviews
69% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Typical seasonal cut
30% ($6.99)
Last discount ended
35 days ago

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
7.7h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
196h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.30
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$9.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
69%
1,714 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2024

Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4600, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.

Hard-core action with easy controls! The METAL SLUG we all love is back as a tower defense game!
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Replayability~46h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 7.7h main story
Engagement33% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$1.30/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews69% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length7.7 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds9 of 788 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

April 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. Its cuts run 30 percent off as a rule. There have been 10 in the 2 years tracked, about 9 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 5 weeks ago.

It is less well reviewed than 73 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Kingdom: Classic (free, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Infectonator: Survivors ($0.99, scores 17).

Steam's global achievement data puts 33 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 9 of the 788 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 192 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.

7.7 hours to finish it, 196 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 25 times the campaign.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 7.7 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

82% start to 33% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

Players

14 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 20:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Don't even try to get the game. cloud is broken with it after playing for a while. lose all of progression i have done done :(
Toaster90Not recommendedafter 18h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
This game is good, but I would mainly recommend it to someone who is new to the game or franchise. I bought it because I used to play it on mobile, and I thought this would be a compilation of all the units, artwork, stories, events, etc. from the mobile game. Unfortunately, more than half of the content from the mobile game is missing here, with no news of any updates in the near future. This means that a lot of...
oscar_j.dNot recommendedafter 66hAug 2026Read on Steam
I love this game, and have played MSA since Red Allen O'Neill. I wish they had all the characters... I miss Romy.
obadiah snickRecommendedafter 13hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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METAL SLUG ATTACK RELOADED scores 29/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2322440/metal-slug-attack-reloaded
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Reviews 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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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperSNK CORPORATION
PublisherSNK CORPORATION
GenreRPG
Released2024
Achievements12