METAL SLUG XX

METAL SLUG XX

Skip · Shooter · 2019

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The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 0, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Length
1h
Value
$19.99/hr
Reviews
53% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
1h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
7.8h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$19.99
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
53%
1,243 reviews, as of Sep 27
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2019

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 500, Radeon HD 7000 or newer, GTX 560 or newer. Windows only.

METAL SLUG XX, the most recent installment in the famous run-and-gun action shooting series, returns to the battlefield on Steam with a plethora of brand new features!
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Raising the score
Replayability~6h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 1h main story
Engagement6% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$19.99/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews53% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 54% after the small-sample adjustment
Refunds19 of 694 reviews
Well above the typical game's share of reviews from refunded buyers, so the score takes a small dock
For context
Length1 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was August 2023. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 42 in the 8 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart.

It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 94 percent. On the same math METAL SLUG 3 ($7.99, scores 64) and METAL SLUG 2 ($6.99, scores 67) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.

Steam's global achievement data puts about 6 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. This site sampled 694 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 19 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,071 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 78 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 1 of the 19 refunded reviewers was past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 768 reviews written there were positive, against 53 percent overall, and those are 68 percent of everything written about it.

Finishing takes 1 hours; clearing it takes 8, which is 7.8 times the campaign.

The drop-off

38% start to 6% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. On a 1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements

What players say

Sendo bem sincero, só comprei esse jogo pelo Ikari Team do KOF estando aqui, mas assim, não é um jogo totalmente ruim, ele ainda cumpre o papel dele de entreter e dá pra brincar, por isso não consigo não recomendar ele. Eu diria que a melhor palavra pra descrever esse Metal Slug é: UNDERWELMING, os cenários continuam aquela porqueira que vem tendo desde o MS 6 sendo só imagens estáticas e bem borradas por sinal, as...
DanteMustDie! λRecommendedafter 1.3h7 found this helpfulRead on Steam
I got this for $3.99, but it's definitely not worth the default $20 price. This game contains the most terribly designed sections in the series. While the game looks great and the general gameplay is fun, it also goes way too far past the learnable challenge of the other games, and is just ridiculously bullsh!t unfair.The first 2 or 3 or so stages are fun, and then the rest of the game becomes filled with enemies...
VincentRecommendedafter 7.7hAug 2026Read on Steam
Seems like a lot of achievements are glitched and wont pop. No saving mid campaign whatsoever unlike all previous titles. Otherwise a good game with special abilities and a second weapon slot. So I don't recommend for achievement hunters but otherwise alright game. Only mission select in single player and not coop is so annoying. Popped one of the glitched achievements in single player so it seems like coop is the...
TheMaxedBladeNot recommendedafter 2.5hMay 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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METAL SLUG XX scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/975680/metal-slug-xx
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Reviews 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 Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

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Details

DeveloperSNK CORPORATION
PublisherSNK CORPORATION
GenreShooter
Released2019
Achievements34