METAL SLUG X
Fair · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hour▼
- $7.26/hr
- Reviews▼
- 88% of 4,024
- Genre rank
- Top 21% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.84 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 1.1h
- To 100%
- 4.4h 4.0x the story
- Achievements
- 15
Price and sales
- Sales
- 69 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $1.59 November 2024
- Sale every
- 49d last August 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 8 now
- Cheaper than
- 62% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 76% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
74% start to 2% 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
69 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 10 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 21 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, METAL SLUG 3 ($7.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats METAL SLUG XX ($19.99, scores 0).
More about METAL SLUG X
4 of the 561 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 1,522 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 73 days ago.
- 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
One of the Arabic signs in Mission 1 roughly translates to "I have diarrhea" 10/10
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
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
Dotemu saw how bad the port of the first game was and thought "we can do worse". And they f*cking did.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
“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!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
METAL SLUG X scores 63/100 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/312610/metal-slug-xReviews 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 Oct 18, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.