METAL SLUG DEFENSE
Skip · Shooter · 2015
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- Length
- 5.7h 31.2h to 100%
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 57% of 2,237 positive
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
“METAL SLUG”, the pinnacle of 2D action-shooting on NEOGEO returns in a brand new strategy game on Steam!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It is less well reviewed than 91 percent of its genre. On the same math ONRAID (free, scores 38) and The Expendabros (free, scores 95) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
Its player count is falling. 10 were online at the highest of our weekly checks over 21 days, 4 at the last one, on Oct 17, 07:50 UTC.
More about METAL SLUG DEFENSE
5.7 hours to finish it, 31 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
45% 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
What players say
You like being able to own a bunch of units? Well too bad! Most of the units have been restricted to paid with real money bundles, and the rest from unnecessarily difficult to obtain methods only made harder by the fact most of the units you start with are just plain garbage. The only saving graces this game has is the fact the base game is free, and that its actually quite a small file size
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
i dont necessarily blame fully whoever decided to make all the medals no longer worth collecting and turned this game into a purchase to play to have fun game, i used to play this game years ago on a tablet, had a blast, played for days worth of time but now im at a wall with this so called version, it could be so much more fun the way it was, bring back the old game play style, otherwise awesome game and id like to...
It's been 10 years since I first played this game. Back then, I could never enjoy it on Android because it felt like only pay-to-win players could conquer every stage. But after finally playing it on PC, I realized it wasn't what I had expected. At last, I was able to complete every level and defeat every major boss without buying a single DLC or paying to win. Thank you, classic Metal Slug. I truly appreciate the...
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Cite this score
METAL SLUG DEFENSE scores 2/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 20, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/356310/metal-slug-defenseReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 30. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.