METAL SLUG
Fair · Shooter · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 0.9h
- Value
- $8.88/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 81% over the last 30 days against 89% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
“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!
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How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.59, set in November 2024. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 63 in the 11 years tracked, about 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.
On value it sits in the top 20 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, METAL SLUG 2 ($6.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition ($19.99, scores 26).
Players rate it 89 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 81 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 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 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 113 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.
The drop-off
77% 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
13 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
Me gusta que hasta en el trailer va lag en multijugador, 10/10 no le mienten al consumidor
◆ 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
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 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/366250/metal-slugThe 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 23, price as of Sep 24.
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