METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES
Fair · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hour▼
- $10.52/hr
- Reviews▼
- 85% of 18,410
- Critics
- 80 players 5 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 27% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $10.17 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 1.9h
- To 100%
- 20.9h 11.0x the story
- Achievements
- 16
Price and sales
- Sales
- 43 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 November 2020
- Sale every
- 68d last June 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 51 now
- Recent reviews
- 89% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 68% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
77% start to 4% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was November 2020. It has been discounted 43 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 10 weeks apart.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 27 percent. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. Among the games that feel like it, METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN ($19.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats METAL GEAR SOLID - Master Collection Version ($19.99, scores 54).
More about METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES
11 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 2,454 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
1.9 hours to finish it, 21 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 11 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 1.9 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Recommended if you are a true fan of the MGS Saga. Graphics hold up surprisingly well even for a 12 year old game. The story compliments Peace walker and introduces The phantom pain; it serves as a connection between the 2 of them. Gameplay is really engaging (for stealth and action) pieces during the campaing. Even if the main campaign is very short; it's guaranteed to give you at least some 40 Hours of things to...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
the sad thing to know is that we might never get to see another new beautiful game like this. This games legacy will never be forgotten DIAMOND DOGS FOREVER
3/10. Blame Hideo Kojima. So... everybody thinks this guy is incredibly good as a director. But he is to video games what David Lynch is to movies: incredible spectacle, weird, has his actors deliver the best performances ever, weird, lots of retconning disguised as good writing, poignant/idiosyncratic music selection, and... did I mention weird? Like, some people think David Lynch is God's Gift to Film. That's...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
World-renowned Kojima Productions brings the Metal Gear Solid franchise to Steam with METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES. Play as the legendary hero Snake and infiltrate a Cuban military base to rescue the hostages. Can you make it out alive?
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 (2GB) or better (DirectX 11 graphics card required), 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES scores 59/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/311340/metal-gear-solid-v-ground-zeroesReviews 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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.