Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain cover art

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

2015 · Kojima Productions · ~45h to finish

Reflex mode quietly saves every blown infiltration. Turn it off and the enemy adapts to whatever you did last mission, which is where the game gets interesting.

actionadventureshooterPCPlayStation 5Xbox SeriesMetacritic 91
Global—UNRATED
Baseline difficulty4.5MODERATE

You will lose sometimes. You will not mind.

Price on Steam

$19.99

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Part of

Metal Gear Solid6 of 7 to play

An open-world stealth sandbox, and the best of them to play and the worst to start on: it is the last chapter of the 1964 thread and assumes you have the other two.

Before it: Metal Gear Solid: Peace WalkerAfter it: Metal Gear Rising: RevengeanceStart with Metal Gear Solid or Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater

The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Strategy
5.5
Obscurity
5.3
Grind
4.5
Reaction
3.8
Execution
3.6
Learning Curve
3.2
Punishment
3.1
Puzzle
1.5
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST
  • Punishment drops 0.9 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Execution drops 0.9 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Assist options shave roughly 3.1 points off, if you use them.

These are generic numbers. Calibrate and this whole page re-scores around you.

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Screenshots

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Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT

No walls charted yet. If you have played this, you know where it bites — add the first one.

Assists & accessibility

0/4 SOURCED

CHALLENGE RELIEF

  • Granular assist sliders [unsourced]
  • Save anywhere [unsourced]

MOTOR & INPUT

  • Fully remappable controls [unsourced]

HEARING

  • Full subtitles [unsourced]

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is the sequel to Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes and a prequel to the original Metal Gear.

Where to go from here

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The same shape, one rung harder. The next thing, not the hardest thing.

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