METAL SLUG
Fair · Shooter · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hour▼
- $8.88/hr
- ReviewsA
- 89% of 5,326
- Genre rank
- Top 21% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.91 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 0.9h
- To 100%
- 3.8h 4.2x the story
- Achievements
- 15
Price and sales
- Sales
- 63 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $1.59 November 2024
- Sale every
- 50d last August 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 27 now
- Cheaper than
- 62% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 80% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
77% 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
Across all 63 discounts in the 11 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 10 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 21 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, METAL SLUG 2 ($6.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats METAL SLUG XX ($19.99, scores 0).
More about METAL SLUG
16 of the 657 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 352 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 2,417 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 54 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 0.9 hours. Doing everything runs 4, 4.2 times as long.
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
Me gusta que hasta en el trailer va lag en multijugador, 10/10 no le mienten al consumidor
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
◆ Current thought ◆ Even after many year, still a fun and challenge IP~ ◆ Art: 6/6 ◆ ◆ Story: 3/6 ◆ ◆ Gameplay: 6/6 ◆ ◆ Characters: 6/6 ◆ ◆ Music and sound: 6/6 ◆ ◆ Experience: 6/6 ◆ ◆ Should you playing this game? ◆ Is a fun game, so why not~
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
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
“METAL SLUG ”, the very first title in SNK’s legendary 2D run & gun action shooting game series where all began, returns to the missions on 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 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/366250/metal-slugReviews 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 20, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.