METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES
METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES
Game
Game2015
METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
Developer KONAMI
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is a 2015 action-adventure stealth game developed and published by Konami. Directed, written, and produced by Hideo Kojima (as his final work at Konami), it is the ninth main installment in the Metal Gear franchise, following Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, a stand-alone prologue released the previous year. Set in 1984, nine years after the events of Ground Zeroes, the story… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
648 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
85
LovedLoved
368 positive · 65 negative
95% range 81–88%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 368 | 65 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 40 | 10 | 146 |
| Mastodon * | 3 | 0 | 11 |
| 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
56,165 of 61,289 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
83% recommend · 229 yes, 46 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 275 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (99,718 of 108,650 positive).
Players praise the gameplay as the best in the series, calling it a masterpiece of stealth and sandbox design. [1][2][3] Some reviewers highlight the narrative as convoluted or weak, but the freedom and mechanics remain highly acclaimed. [4][5][6]
Liked
Representative posts
- [11]
This game was a technical marvel for years and had a dedicated modding community making it one of the best if not THE BEST open world stealth games... cue to 9th June of 2026 and new DRM update not only makes most of those mods unplayable, but also the game itself runs awfully without any mods installed. Konami really hates money, so DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!
- [1]
"Man does not live in a country, he lives inside a language... Do not be mistaken, the fatherland is language and nothing else." - Emil Cioran. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is a game of profound, haunting contradictions. It is simultaneously the most mechanically perfect and the most narratively fractured entry in Hideo Kojima's legendary saga. It presents a philosophical ghost story about identity, …
- [2]
There's a reason more than ten years after it's release Metal Gear Solid V is the title with most active players out of the entire series, Having played each title since Metal Gear Solid in 1998 I can assure you: this is the ultimate MGS experience. There is no stealth game quite like this one, every aspect of this game is superb: the missions, the open world, the AI, the story, the music, and gameplay, and how it …
- [4]
Don't get me wrong, the story sucks ass. Typical overblown convoluted Kojima nonsense. But from a pure gameplay experience, its the best I've played in 15 years. The freedom to approach every mission in any way you see fit is still unparalleled.
- [3]
Possibly the greatest stealth game ever created.
Summarised from 34 of the 472 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 9, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN talk about best stealth gameplay and sandbox freedom; those who didn't talk about unfinished story and missing content. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain received "universal acclaim" from critics, according to the review aggregator website Metacritic. Reviewers considered it to be one of the best Metal Gear games. It has also been cited as one of the greatest stealth games, and one of the greatest video games of all time. Rich Stanton of Eurogamer wrote that "every hand-polished element slots together into a head-spinningly ambitious structure and they combine into something you can only call visionary". IGN's Vince Ingenito felt they had never expected a game to exist "where every minute gameplay detail has true purpose", and Spencer Campbell of EGM described The Phantom Pain as "changing the idea of…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 648 · most liked firstMetal 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 →EDIT: 04/08/2026 they fixed the messy code on Denuvo, making TPP Fix not necessary, but still welcomed for other features. I still wonder why the DRM is still here in the first place and why would anyone waste time and resources to make it working. The fact that they are still paying for a subscription after not funding Kojima Productions to complete the game till the end is funny. Spend less money to get people angry, spend more money to get them even more angry. As of time of writing, SH:…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
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 10th Anniversary art. Had this cooking for a few months.
neutral · AI labelView post →This game was a technical marvel for years and had a dedicated modding community making it one of the best if not THE BEST open world stealth games... cue to 9th June of 2026 and new DRM update not only makes most of those mods unplayable, but also the game itself runs awfully without any mods installed. Konami really hates money, so DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Invisible Invisible Invisible Invisible walking by the wall (Shy one) the shadows will not fall (Shy one) is silently ignored (Quiet one) discouraged by the noise (Quiet one) living without choice (Quiet one) is a life without a voice When you can't even say my name Has the memory gone? Are you feeling numb? Go on, call my name I can't play this game, so I ask again Will you say my name? Has the memory gone? Are you feeling numb? Or have I become invisible? the dreamers wish away (Hindsight)…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →play the game until you find the Cassette Tape in Chapter 3 for Duran Duran's Invisible.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →Adding denuvo in a silent update to an 11-year-old game... You're ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ insane.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →They added Denuvo, now the game runs like sheeet. It's like they are incentivizing piracy at this point. Edit: It seems like a recent update fixed the performance issues. I will leave this review as it is as a reminder of Konami's incompetence. Long live project PHYSINT!!!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView 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
neutral · 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 →I really love metal gear, quite liteally every single entry. HOWEVER, a few weeks ago they've added DENUVO, or, an update to DENUVO. I've had the game since early may, and it ran fine on my 3070, month later i upgraded to a 5070ti. I played the game once with the 5070ti, ran beautifully. AFTER THIS UPDATE? Naw, horrendous performance issues, cant even maintain stable FPS in fire fights. i do not know what they did exactly, but it bricked this game for me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →New #cosplay - XOF (Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain) 📷 - @dblarg354.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015)
neutral · AI labelView post →"Man does not live in a country, he lives inside a language... Do not be mistaken, the fatherland is language and nothing else." - Emil Cioran. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is a game of profound, haunting contradictions. It is simultaneously the most mechanically perfect and the most narratively fractured entry in Hideo Kojima's legendary saga. It presents a philosophical ghost story about identity, language, and the cycle of vengeance, wrapped in the greatest sandbox infiltration…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As observed by Hideo Kojima in his 2015 docu-drama, Metal Gear Solid V.
neutral · AI labelView post →Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015) Art by Yoji Shinkawa
neutral · AI labelView post →Metal Gear Solid V making you wear the chicken hat 😩
negative · AI labelView post →Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015) Promo Image
neutral · 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 →Does this game still hold up? Yes. Is this game unfinished? Yes. Do I want Kojima to take over the MGS IP and complete his masterpiece? Yes and yes.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →-friend bought me game for birthday -game told me to enter birthday -characters sing me birthday song -happy
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015) Art by Ashley Wood
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 →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.
positive · AI labelView post →I told myself that I would never buy a game with DRM in it. Even after buying the game and seeing people online saying it had Denuvo in it, Steam still didn't say it did until recently. Wish I could have never bought it. Do yourself a favor and don't support bad business practices
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I’m at 100% completion but I keep opening up the game because it feels like I never finished it Almost like a phantom pain 10/10 piece of art, 9/10 as a stealth action game Still holds up 10 years later
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →There's a reason more than ten years after it's release Metal Gear Solid V is the title with most active players out of the entire series, Having played each title since Metal Gear Solid in 1998 I can assure you: this is the ultimate MGS experience. There is no stealth game quite like this one, every aspect of this game is superb: the missions, the open world, the AI, the story, the music, and gameplay, and how it plays with your emotions. There hasn't been a better game made in this genre…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →normal Metal Gear Solid V gameplay
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun fact, this was the first ever Metal Gear game I ever played back when it released back in 2015. I was 15 when it came out and I remember being absolutely fckn CLUELESS about what was going on around me. I ran around and played through this game and loved everything about it really, the gameplay had me hooked! While all my friends were playing call of duty and battlefield I was sat in my room running around as a one eyed man with a metal arm. Flash forward to today, I'm 25 years old and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015)
neutral · AI labelView post →Don't get me wrong, the story sucks ass. Typical overblown convoluted Kojima nonsense. But from a pure gameplay experience, its the best I've played in 15 years. The freedom to approach every mission in any way you see fit is still unparalleled.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 →Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015)
neutral · AI labelView post →Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015)
neutral · AI labelView post →Adding denuvo to an 11 year old game is beyond anti consumer, it's frankly pathetic and konami should be ashamed of themselves. Acquire this game through other means I'll say.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Fixes & Enhancements This is a fun game, no doubt about it, but it has a lot of systems that waste time. I don’t have much time for gaming, and for me, gaming should be fun, not feel like a second job. That’s why I use these mods, to cut out the tedious stuff and spend more time actually playing. I understand that the timers add realism and make sense, especially for Base and Weapon Development. I respect the design choice, it’s just not for me. If I wanted that level of realism and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView 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 😭😭😭
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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?
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neutral · AI labelView post →Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015) The game released 10 years ago today.
neutral · AI labelView post →MGSV - A Requiem for a Legend We need to address the heavy heart in the room before we even talk about gameplay. The Phantom Pain isn’t just a game, it is a monument, a farewell, and a beautiful, fractured masterpiece. It is the final Metal Gear Solid project helmed by Hideo Kojima, and let’s be brutally honest, there is no Metal Gear Solid without him. Playing this today, knowing it was the end of that specific, brilliant era, feels like reading a final letter from a mentor. It is a haunting…
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