The fourth game in the METAL GEAR series: set over two incidents in 2007 and 2009, featuring Solid Snake and Raiden, introducing new stealth gameplay features.
Modeled estimate, not a reported figure. How we estimate →
Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
14 of 15 markets; the rest we haven't asked for this title, not markets where it is unavailable.
Availability
We put this game to every storefront we collect. A market that answered not sold has told us something about the game; a market we never asked has not, and the two are never drawn the same.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 23 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 14 places towards #1, and the 2,515 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
Genres
Sums Steam only; Xbox, Nintendo publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $19.99 | 4.7Kreviews | 90% | — | $1.8M |
| $19.99 | 281ratings | 92% | — | not modelled | |
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 602 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
I dont usually write serious reviews, nor do i write them before finishing the game fully, but this time around i just had to - a game from 2001, when people had no touchscreen phones, internet access was niche, mostly used for emails or work, wiki didnt exist, algorithms didnt exist, etc etc., yet, it depicts our current times so chillingly accurate - about the weapons of mass destruction, inevitable wars and thirst for power and control that brings them, politicians used as puppets from behind the scenes, media used as a weapon by the elites (digital censorship, narratives being pushed or twisted, informational overload, noise drowning out facts and truth, internet meme culture, conspiracies, birth of AI, algorithms curating your feed and mind, etc). Kojima really caught the growing wave the digital world was, and still is today, and tried to answer the question of where all this would lead to - he understood that part of the human mind that always seeks information, and how exploitable that is - that whoever controls the filters of what you see, hear, perceive, experience, is the one who truly holds the reins. perhaps the shock value came from my expectations of a parodic and americanized movie-like game, instead i got hit with a political/philosophical thriller with smut and exaggerated elements for the subtle comedic nature. while MGS1 and MGS3 are more iconic for their meme status, MGS2 is hands down a serious masterpiece beneath all the surrealism and exaggeration, 10/10.
Media
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14 on sale1 answered “not sold”0 we did not ask
The 1 “not sold” market is read from the Steam price pass of Aug 31: that day the store answered for this game elsewhere and gave no price there. The 14 priced markets are the same rows as the table above — each the latest price we hold, dated here when it is older than that pass. The 0 marked “not asked” were not put to this store at all — either it has no storefront there or we do not collect it yet, and neither is a statement about the game. A refusal is a refusal on one day; a store can list a title again tomorrow.
Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese**languages with full audio support
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Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 605 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
man this game aged like fine wine. ofc some controls and the graphics are outdated but it holds up really well. i had so much fun playing through and the nostalgia kicked in hard which was awesome. it was very satisfying to finally beat the game because as a kid i was never able to. would highly recommend for all 90's kid to pick up this gem and experience it once again. kojima is a genius and the goat.
Pica
virtualno ludilo
Raiden, can i give you some advice ?
Esta obra maestra la conocí por un gran amigo mío, y desde que la conozco muy pocas cosas le llegan a la altura, como obra, como referente y como un ejemplo de visión para el futuro, es una recomendación mas que necesaria en tu colección, una obra grandiosa y única!!!
Tremendo juego, tiene algunos fallos de traducción y los diálogos se ponen algo ridículos a veces, pero no le quita que sus virtudes superan sus errores por mucho más. Los personajes, la música, la historia...y sobre todo las reflexiones que deja, creer en ti y mantener ese tu real que hay dentro de ti con sus ideas, sus valores y sus emociones en vez de caer en el nihilismo en el que todas las mentiras de hoy en día nos intentan hacer caer.
I now understand the hype behind Raiden, he's such a good character and i actually loved this game
So many confusing plot twists I forgot I was in a 20 minute cutscene.
最近の若者にはわからない良さがある。
Active players
Estimated daily and monthly active players (DAU/MAU) modeled from peak concurrency.
Players by region
Where this game's players are, estimated from review languages.
Players also reviewed
The games this title's players most often review too — audience affinity.
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