Metal Gear Survive is alright. It strikes such an almost perfect balance between mind-numbing tedium and rage-tinted fun that if you're willing to let it take you, there's a very compelling experience under all the brown and grey textures - just don't expect it to do justice to the franchise under which it shuffles.
Metal Gear Survive2018
Metal Gear Survive
2018 Konami59Mediocre
Playtime
LongIt typically takes about 30 hours to finish the game.
Playable on
- Steam DeckPlayable
- Steam MachinePlayable
Available on
- $29.99
- $29.99
- $29.99
Game modes
- 2–4 players
- 2–4 players
Details
Overview
In a struggle to stay alive on this harsh terrain filled with deadly creatures, soldiers who were previously on Motherbase now must work cooperatively in order to survive.
Screenshots
Reception
Press60
Players63
WorthwhileWorthwhile- Metacritic60from 73 reviews
- OpenCritic60from 90 reviews
Metal Gear Survive's team managed to make a game both bad to play and fascinating to examine. Survive finds itself in small moments but is lost to grinding, mindless gameplay.
Metal Gear Survive is both a bad survival game and a bad Metal Gear game.
Most of you have probably already made up your mind about Metal Gear Survive. I think Survive has some redeeming qualities and, had it focused firmly on its multiplayer, I may have enjoyed the experience more. As it stands, there are just so many better titles in the survival genre, it's hard to recommend this game to anybody. I'm sad to say that Metal...
Most of the time, it's a game that goes out of its way to be repetitive, frustrating and dull.