METAL SLUG 3
Fair · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.4h
- Value
- $5.71/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
“METAL SLUG 3”, the masterpiece in SNK’s emblematic 2D run & gun action shooting game series, still continues to fascinate millions of fans worldwide to this day for its intricate dot-pixel graphics, and simple and intuitive game controls, heads out to the Steam gaming platform!
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The value story
November 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $1.59. 72 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 20 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, METAL SLUG 2 ($6.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats METAL SLUG ($7.99, scores 63).
This site sampled 594 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 2,742 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 39 percent of everything written about it.
1.4 hours to finish it, 5 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
86% start to 1% 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
Players
17 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
the epic sequal to a game that was truly great in the arcades. i highly recommend it
SNK is owned by the piece of garbage Mohammed bin Salman, so if you buy this game, your money goes to funding human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia the game is fine, it's about 3.5 roentgen
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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METAL SLUG 3 scores 64/100 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/250180/metal-slug-3The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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