METAL SLUG 2
Fair · Multiplayer · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $6.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hour
- $6.99/hr
- Reviews▼
- 89% of 1,467
- Genre rank
- Top 6% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Reach, Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 1h
- To 100%
- 2.4h 2.4x the story
- Achievements
- 15
Price and sales
- Sales
- 59 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $1.39 November 2024
- Sale every
- 50d last August 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 5 now
- Cheaper than
- 55% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 93% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
73% start to 3% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 59 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 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 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 93 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Broforce ($14.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats METAL SLUG 3 ($7.99, scores 64).
More about METAL SLUG 2
Of the 399 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 676 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 57 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 1 hour as a typical playtime, and completionists log 2, 2.4 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 3 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 72 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
The only thing this one's got over most emulators and the OG is that it doesn't stutter... too much.
1 more review
Well, I like it a lot more than the first one, and well, I like it, it's very fun, and that's it
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
“METAL SLUG 2”, the 2nd entry in SNK’s emblematic 2D run & gun action shooting game returns to the battlefield 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 2 scores 67/100 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/366260/metal-slug-2Reviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.