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.
- Length
- 1.9h
- Value
- $10.52/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
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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.
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?
What drives the score
How to read this
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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, typically at 80 percent off, with about 10 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 25 percent on value. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 71 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 2: Sons of Liberty - Master Collection Version ($19.99, scores 49).
10 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 2,438 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.
The drop-off
77% start to 4% 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
47 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
when it's the intro and the music is like duuuun dududuuun im like omg this is so omg im so like omg
id say its worth playing. it should not be $20 tho, this is not $20 worth of content
Very upset with Valve approving steam deck compatibility to any game that has problem... After first mission the game crashes, you can fix on PC but steam deck on other hand tho... You have to really try to fix that issue... Not recommended for steam deck users
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 GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES scores 59/100 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/311340/metal-gear-solid-v-ground-zeroesThe 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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