
“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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Prices
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.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.86/day in the week to Aug 13 → 6.43/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 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.
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“METAL SLUG ”, the very first title in SNK’s legendary 2D run & gun action shooting game series where it all began, returns on the Steam gaming platform!
・ARCADE MODE (MAIN MISSION):
Play the original arcade version of “METAL SLUG ” with its charismatic protagonist soldiers Marco & Tarma, maneuver the almighty “METAL SLUG ” tank, and fight your way through the 6 missions of the game to thwart Gen. Morden's evil ambitions!
・MISSION MODE (STAGE SELECT):
Play and enjoy your favorite stages at will! Train alone or with a brother-in-arms on the missions you have unlocked so far!
・ONLINE MISSION (ONLINE MULTIPLAYER):
Connect to Steam and clear missions with a brother-in-arms far away via the Online Co-Op Play feature.
Engage with a fellow countryman or foreign ally and let the mission begin!
・SETTINGS:
Configure control, language, video display, and sound volume settings for the best “METAL SLUG ” experience on PC.
・LEADERBOARDS:
Check your current rank & score in “METAL SLUG” at any time, and challenge other players to be the best “METAL SLUG ” soldier in the world!
** WILL NOT RUN ON Windows XP **
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Add-ons
Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 222 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Аркадный run-and-gun 1996 года, в котором SNK взяла Contra, добавила танк, килотонну ручной пиксельной анимации и решила, что каждый солдат обязан умирать так выразительно, будто у него персональный аниматор. Бежишь вправо, расстреливаешь армию Мордена, освобождаешь пленных, запрыгиваешь в Metal Slug и за двадцать секунд превращаешь экран в пожар. Игра короткая, простая и абсолютно не стесняется того, что создана жрать монеты в автомате: враги вываливаются пачками, боссы выдерживают промышленное количество свинца, а смерть регулярно прилетает из той части экрана, на которую ты секунду не посмотрел. Зато никакого крафта, сезонов и дерева навыков — только чистый концентрат аркадного насилия, нарисованный с таким количеством любви, что спустя тридцать лет половина современных 2D-игр рядом выглядит как экономия на художниках.
Classic. You know what you are getting into. Multiplater and Co-op works fine.
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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 Sep 13: 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.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Russian*languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 222 reviews with recorded playtime.
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El juego por el cual muchos empezamos a amar los videojuegos.
tive a infancia marcada pelos jogos da SNK e metal slug é um deles, simplesmente perfeito, o jogo é bom em todos os sentidos, arte, trilha sonora, jogabilidade, diversao, tudo, no mais, comprem, O Jogo é Bão
Compre apenas se estiver barato, esse primeiro jogo da franquia é muito fraquinho, com uma jogabilidade bem chatinha e uma campanha minúscula. Zerei o jogo em menos de 1 hora, não pedi o reembolso pois me diverti e paguei muito barato numa promoção. Ele é um jogo para zerar em uma sessão, como no fliperama. Mas não me vejo revisitando esse título.
El juego que lo inicio todo. Pasarán las décadas y aún así sigue siendo y seguirá siendo uno de los mejores juegos de disparos, con un hermoso Pixel Art
1996年のゲームだが未だにメタスラを超えるクオリティのドット絵とゲームの面白さが詰まった作品を見たことがない。全6ステージで1周30分もかからないが、ノーコンティニューや捕虜コンプリートを目指すと絶妙に難しいのも良い。エンディングも皮肉が効いていてゲーム史に残ると思う。 OPが起動時にしか見れない、ネオジオ特有の操作説明デモがないなど、移植の出来に愛を感じないが、裏を返せばサクッとプレイできる仕上がりにはなっている。 Steamに売っている他のメタルスラッグシリーズにも言えることだが、日本で生まれたゲームなのだから先ず日本語版も選べるようにするべきである。捕虜の名前表示ぐらいにしか影響はないが、そのせいでふざけた捕虜名の遊び心を感じる事ができない。移植を担当した開発陣はドット表示された日本語のエモさをわかってない。 ゲームはもちろん最高なので、開発会社を変えてGUIから何まで1から移植しなおしてほしいと思う。
I don't think I will ever get bored of this game. What a classic!
i love the game but its lagging
我的童年好大,大到65M的合金弹头都要玩好几个月。 我的童年好小,小到我一小时就能玩到完结。
Active players
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Players by region
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