METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
Game
Game2014
METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES
Developer KONAMI
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is a 2014 action-adventure stealth game developed by Kojima Productions and published by Konami. It is the eighth main game in the Metal Gear series directed, written, and produced by Hideo Kojima, and serves as a prologue to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, which was released the following year. Set in 1975, a few months after the events of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, the… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
477 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
88
LovedLoved
229 positive · 30 negative
95% range 84–92%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 229 | 30 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 36 | 12 | 151 |
| Mastodon * | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 5 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
8,626 of 10,263 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
89% recommend · 202 yes, 26 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 228 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (15,567 of 18,346 positive).
Players praise the tight gameplay and atmosphere but note it is very short. [1][2][3] Many consider it a paid demo or prologue for The Phantom Pain. [4][5][6] Some recommend buying it bundled with the main game. [7][8][9]
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Representative posts
- [15]
The game itself runs great, plays great, and overall serves as a good tutorial mission for The Phantom Pain, but its just that, a tutorial. There is one location for all the missions, and the actually significant story section can be completed in about an hour or two. I don't think the game shouldn't exist, but I do think it should be free. If you have the extra cash, go for it, but you could probably get all the …
- [1]
Ground Zeroes feels like Kojima grabbed me by the neck, whispered “watch this,” and then emotionally suplexed me in under two hours (yeah, this game is short, tho. But..pain...). Stealth is peak. Atmosphere is insane. Final cutscene ruined my day in 4K. Short game. Long trauma. Kojima moment.
- [5]
The most expensive and most glorious paid demo in video game history. You spend two hours playing the main campaign under the pouring rain, and then waste another 40 hours trying to extract prisoners in a jeep just to hear Big Boss say 'Kept you waiting, huh?' in Kiefer Sutherland's voice.
- [6]
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes is a demo that you pay for. Originally intended to be included in the Phantom Pain, it was stripped out and sold to us for £20 as a way of trying to recoup some of the millions Kojima had spent working on MGS5. At the time it was pretty scummy but a fantastic little window into what we could expect for the main game. Now it's just a fun little game you can get for dirt cheap, play …
- [8]
While incredibly short, this game is incredibly fun. Announcing whenever i'd hit a 200+ meter headshot or the little "ding ding" whenever you cancel an alert is very satisfying. Having 100% the game a second time now, it gives you a good taste for what phantom pain offers. I will say, I don't think it's worth $20 for the content it offers. Get it on sale or as part of the MGSV:TPP bundle.
Summarised from 34 of the 429 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES sits at 88% positive across 259 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes received "generally favorable" reviews from critics on all platforms except on PlayStation 3 which received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator website Metacritic. GameSpot felt that the new stealth mechanics in Ground Zeroes, such as the replacement of the radar and other indicators with binoculars and radio communication, made its overall gameplay more "immersive" than previous installments, noting that "nothing is simply handed to you, and Ground Zeroes is a far more tense and rewarding experience for it". Its open world format and side missions were also praised for adding a large amount of flexibility and replay value to the…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 477 · most liked firstMetal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2021)
neutral · AI labelView post →Metal Gear Solid V: here’s a tragic explanation for why the heroine can’t wear clothes Death Stranding: here’s a tragic explanation for why the heroine has to wear clothes
neutral · AI labelView post →Metal Gear Solid V(isual Concepts)
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neutral · AI labelView post →Shout out to 10 years ago today when I woke up to drive to a Best Buy in Metairie right as it opened so that I could buy Metal Gear Solid V, its hardcover strategy guide, and Mad Max: Fury Road on steelbook before class started. Hard to believe it’s been a decade. Incredible game despite it all.
positive · AI labelView post →Metal Gear Solid V
neutral · AI labelView post →Metal Gear Solid V 10th Anniversary art. Had this cooking for a few months.
neutral · AI labelView post →new art! RSPinUpChampionEdition - Quiet (Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain)
neutral · AI labelView post →Venom Snake - Metal Gear Solid V #art #drawing #metalgearsolid #fanart
neutral · AI labelView post →GE-Proton11-1 Released. **Heads up! This release used AI to rebase the video playback pipeline.** EDIT: I have added the release notes as a spoiler for easier readability as requested in the comments ::: spoiler spoiler The long awaited video rework and Proton 11 rebase is finally done! GE-Proton11-1 is now available! Proton updates: - d7vk added (not enabled by default). Use PROTON_USE_D7VK=1 to enable. It is enabled via protonfix on Tex Murphy: Overseer - discord bridge added. (not…
neutral · AI labelView post →If Konami were to ever rerelease Metal Gear Solid V but with the game altered so that cut and unfinished content was restored, including the full ending, all without Kojima’s involvement, how would you feel? Is this something that they should even think about doing?
neutral · AI labelView post →10 years of Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain
neutral · AI labelView post →Old Metal Gear Solid V art, this was a sort of redo of something I did back in 2022.
neutral · AI labelView post →Metal Gear Solid V, set in 1984, has a collectable tape of Friday I'm In Love by The Cure, which came out in 1992. There's also nanomachine undead women and walking robots but I don't care about that
positive · AI labelView post →It'd be pretty nice if someone wanted to give me a few million bucks to make an open world stealth game with controls like Metal Gear Solid V and interconnected world design and puzzle action setups like Shadow of the Erdtree I know the money's there I even have a team in mind C'mon
positive · AI labelView post →New #cosplay - XOF (Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain) 📷 - @dblarg354.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →As observed by Hideo Kojima in his 2015 docu-drama, Metal Gear Solid V.
neutral · AI labelView post →Metal Gear Solid V making you wear the chicken hat 😩
negative · AI labelView post →It’s time to finish Metal Gear Solid V!! Yippee!! twitch.tv/Rose_Waltz
positive · AI labelView post →Metal Gear Solid V is so fucking Dumb, man.
negative · AI labelView post →2022 - 2024 The redo of the Metal Gear Solid V art I mentioned
neutral · AI labelView post →Quiet from Metal Gear Solid V, based this on akemy.sama cosplay on IG
neutral · AI labelView post →'Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain' launched 10 year ago. Happy 10th Anniversary!
neutral · AI labelView post →These are my two prized pieces right now and the last of them. I got a lot of friends and followers from these two communities. So to clarify, I’ve run out of ideas for Metal Gear Solid V and Metroid Dread so these are my “magnum opus” of these two games.
positive · AI labelView post →Every now and again mankind reinvents Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
neutral · AI labelView post →Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015)
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight at 8:30PM EST we go back to 2014, a time when gaming had to Become Very Serious and Kojimas way of doing this was sending you to Gitmo to shoot Americans in the head in Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. We also have Phantom Pain, which is Far Cry 2 but with a million dollar soundtrack.
neutral · AI labelView post →Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015)
neutral · AI labelView post →Metal Gear Solid V shit
neutral · AI labelView post →I once had a dream where Skull Face from Metal Gear Solid V had Goofy’s voice. Nothing else changed about the game and it was never remarked upon.
neutral · AI labelView post →Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015) Art by Yoji Shinkawa
neutral · AI labelView post →Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes Artist - Yoji Shinkawa
neutral · AI labelView post →normal Metal Gear Solid V gameplay
neutral · AI labelView post →Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Artist: Yoji Shinkawa
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neutral · AI labelView post →Metal Gear Solid V here's to you
neutral · AI labelView post →I feel like if there were one video game I wish I could play again for the first time, it would be Metal Gear Solid V. The systems and the way you learn them, the environments and how you move through them, your base… everything is just discovery after discovery 😭😭😭
positive · AI labelView post →Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015)
neutral · AI labelView post →Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Artist: Yoji Shinkawa
neutral · AI labelView post →wow I really love this game. setting aside Kirby Air Riders (which was developed by the best game designer alive and thus is sort of an unfair comparison), Marathon is the best AAA video game I have played since......... ................ Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain maybe?
positive · AI labelView post →Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015) The game released 10 years ago today.
neutral · AI labelView post →Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes - 2014
neutral · AI labelView post →Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
neutral · AI labelView post →Disney Infinity is only one small example, and there's way more to the list of uncredited game work I've done until my first "special thanks" in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
neutral · AI labelView post →Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015)
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neutral · AI labelView post →Obama in the in-game Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain font
neutral · AI labelView post →🎉 We're about to hit 5,000 subs! I promised to review the game with the most votes on this video once we hit that milestone. Right now, Metal Gear Solid V and a Suda51 titles are leading: but there's still time for you to vote! Leave your comment here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KwH...
neutral · AI labelView post →GE-Proton11-1 Released. **Heads up! This release used AI to rebase the video playback pipeline.** EDIT: I have added the release notes as a spoiler for easier readability as requested in the comments ::: spoiler spoiler The long awaited video rework and Proton 11 rebase is finally done! GE-Proton11-1 is now available! Proton updates: - d7vk added (not enabled by default). Use PROTON_USE_D7VK=1 to enable. It is enabled via protonfix on Tex Murphy: Overseer - discord bridge added. (not…
neutral · AI labelView post →Help me decide what game to play next: Ghost of Tsushima, Metaphor, Metal Gear Solid V, FFXV
neutral · AI labelView post →10 years ago Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain perfectly summed up what it's like to make a big budget AAA game--and it's somehow only gotten more accurate in the years since its release, writes @diegoarguello.bsky.social. www.endlessmode.com/article/meta...
neutral · AI labelView post →Video game trailers peaked with Metal Gear Solid V I'm being so serious. Its been over 10 years and I still haven't seen a trailer that beats Nuclear or Not Your Kind of People
positive · AI labelView post →Playing Metal Gear Solid V
neutral · AI labelView post →doing required reading for Canto 5 (Moby Dick, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, True Facts: Lurking In The Deep by ZeFrank Youtube Video)
neutral · AI labelView post →Is there a better game than Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes - scientists are unsure
neutral · AI labelView post →when it's the intro and the music is like duuuun dududuuuuun im like omg this is so omg im so like omg
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ground Zeroes feels like Kojima grabbed me by the neck, whispered “watch this,” and then emotionally suplexed me in under two hours (yeah, this game is short, tho. But..pain...). Stealth is peak. Atmosphere is insane. Final cutscene ruined my day in 4K. Short game. Long trauma. Kojima moment.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As someone who loves Metal Gear, I bought this day one back in the day and felt completely ripped off. I didn’t do my research and had no idea it was basically a glorified tech demo / prologue for what would become MGS V, rather than a full game. At the time, it felt like a bait and switch. Going back to it now, though, I can’t help but enjoy it for what it actually is. For something that’s essentially a short, self contained experience, it’s surprisingly well put together. Kojima was at least…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hard to believe it's been 10 years since Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. I marathoned all the MGS games in preparation for it, only for it to end up being probably the most disappointed I've ever been in a video game.
negative · AI labelView post →kid icarus uprising is the best game of the 2010s and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain and Kentucky Route Zero came out in the 2010s. if you can play it without injuring yourself.......the mind boggles
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