METAL SLUG X
Fair · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.1h
- Value
- $7.26/hr
- Reviews
- 88% 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 X”, one of the most highly praised titles in the series among Metal Slug fans for its refined balance and game volume, heads out to the Steam gaming platform!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
November 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $1.59. 69 discounts in the 12 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.
Value puts it in the top 20 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. On the same math METAL SLUG 3 ($7.99, scores 64) and METAL SLUG 2 ($6.99, scores 67) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
4 of the 557 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 1,513 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 47 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 1.1 hours. Doing everything runs 4, 4.0 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 1.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
74% start to 2% 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
10 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
metal slug X man this game was the the best in the arcade so many good memorys of people lossing coins at the arcade from the last boss such good memorys and most of all watching the faces of the younger kids go wide eye at the last boss fight. oh man good times
By playing this, I found out the kids broke an expensive controller while I was at work. It's that damn Geometry Dash game.
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 X scores 63/100 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/312610/metal-slug-xThe 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 21, price as of Sep 24.
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