
Every Metal Gear Game Ranked
Metal Gear spans 7 critic-rated games on CriticDB, released between 2004 and 2025. The highest-rated is Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (92) and the lowest is Metal Gear Survive (62). Across 147 critic reviews, the series averages 81, and Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater has drawn the most reviews.
Highest ratedMetal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain 92
Lowest ratedMetal Gear Survive 62
Series average81
Made byKojima Productions, Konami, PlatinumGames
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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
9220 critic reviews·Aug 31, 2015·KonamiPCPS3Xbox 360PS4 +1“Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is the latest installment in the MGS franchise, powered by the new FOX engine.”
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Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater
8842 critic reviews·Aug 27, 2025·KonamiPCPS5Xbox X|S“There are few greater proofs that games are art than this one.”
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Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
878 critic reviews·Jun 11, 2008·KonamiPS3“Metal Gear Solid 4 had a lot to live up to and it's done so brilliantly. It will go down in history as one of the most ambitious and cinematic ever made.”
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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
8214 critic reviews·Feb 18, 2013·KonamiPCPS3Xbox 360“Metal Gear Rising is a unique change of pace for the series. While it's far from a perfect game, it's fun hack and slash title with some of the most over-the-top boss battles we've seen in a very long time.”
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Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
819 critic reviews·Nov 16, 2004·KonamiPS2“With Snake Eater Kojima has found his way back into many people's affections, so we should congratulate and praise him and his team, so that they know that they are now making just the right moves.”
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Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
7720 critic reviews·Mar 17, 2014·KonamiPCPS3Xbox 360PS4 +1“As a prologue to The Phantom Pain, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is disappointing.A new entry in the Metal Gear Solid series is usually an event, surrounded by years of hype [...]”
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Metal Gear Survive
6234 critic reviews·Feb 19, 2018·KonamiPCPS4Xbox One“Metal Gear Survive is a co-op stealth game that takes a divergent look at familiar Metal Gear themes and pursues a fresh spirit of exploration in gameplay mechanics.”
Expansions & DLC
Add-ons, expansions and bundles, not included in the ranking.
Metal Gear games in release order
- 1987Metal Gear—
- 1990Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake—
- 1998Metal Gear Solid—
- 1999Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions—
- 2000Metal Gear: Ghost Babel—
- 2001Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty—
- 2004Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes—
- 2004Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater81
- 2004Metal Gear Acid—
- 2005Metal Gear Acid 2—
- 2006Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops—
- 2007Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops Plus—
- 2008Metal Gear Solid Mobile—
- 2008Metal Gear Online—
- 2008Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots87
- 2009Metal Gear Solid Touch—
- 2010Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker—
- 2012Metal Gear Solid: Social Ops—
- 2013Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance82
- 2014Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes77
- 2015Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain92
- 2018Metal Gear Survive62
- 2025Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater88


