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METAL GEAR SOLID 2: Sons of Liberty - Master Collection Version

KONAMI · 2023-10-24

SteamMicrosoft Store

Action

Franchise: Metal Gear · Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person, Third person

Releases: Nov 08, 2011 (PlayStation 3), Nov 08, 2011 (Xbox 360), Jun 28, 2012 (PlayStation Vita), Aug 21, 2017 (Android)

The fourth game in the METAL GEAR series: set over two incidents in 2007 and 2009, featuring Solid Snake and Raiden, introducing new stealth gameplay features.

METAL GEAR SOLID 2: Sons of Liberty - Master Collection Version is an Action game priced at $19.99, released in 2023, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (90% of 4628 reviews).

129
playing now
90%
positive of 4.8k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
89/100
IGDB user rating (35 ratings)
20h
time to beat (IGDB)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

129 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 17:00 UTC (census sample)

An espionage thriller set in an alternate near future. In a prologue chapter, legendary operative Solid Snake infiltrates a tanker on the Hudson River to photograph evidence of a new Metal Gear walking battle tank, only for Russian mercenaries to hijack the vessel and for his old rival Ocelot to seize the machine and sink the ship. Two years later, Snake is branded a terrorist while an offshore facility called the Big Shell rises to clean the resulting oil spill. When a group calling itself the Sons of Liberty storms the facility during a presidential visit, taking hostages and threatening its(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 129 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 910 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~114/week).
  • · Review velocity up 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 7% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 95k–214k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,758 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $9.99 at Steam (2025-06-12)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 11 of 24 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
19719720232026Week of 2023-10-01: 150 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 130 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 197 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 97 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 120 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 134 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 158 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 94 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 159 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 172 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 19 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

282612026-09-15 02:00 — 275 players2026-09-16 10:00 — 115 players2026-09-17 18:00 — 202 players2026-09-19 01:00 — 217 players2026-09-20 09:00 — 173 players2026-09-21 16:00 — 224 players2026-09-23 00:00 — 189 players2026-09-24 07:00 — 95 players2026-09-25 15:00 — 194 players2026-09-26 22:00 — 228 players2026-09-28 06:00 — 116 players2026-09-29 13:00 — 135 players2026-09-30 21:00 — 200 players2026-10-02 04:00 — 131 players2026-10-03 12:00 — 168 players2026-10-04 20:00 — 209 players2026-10-06 04:00 — 136 players2026-10-07 11:00 — 86 players2026-10-08 19:00 — 123 players2026-10-10 02:00 — 159 players2026-10-11 10:00 — 152 players2026-10-12 17:00 — 179 players2026-10-14 01:00 — 135 players2026-10-14 17:00 — 129 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
40045Oct 2023Aug 2026Oct 2023 — avg 400 · peak 644Nov 2023 — avg 202 · peak 511Dec 2023 — avg 87 · peak 178Jan 2024 — avg 94 · peak 192Feb 2024 — avg 92 · peak 206Mar 2024 — avg 75 · peak 142Apr 2024 — avg 63 · peak 124May 2024 — avg 59 · peak 116Jun 2024 — avg 57 · peak 113Jul 2024 — avg 75 · peak 131Aug 2024 — avg 69 · peak 129Sep 2024 — avg 85 · peak 277Oct 2024 — avg 98 · peak 227Nov 2024 — avg 58 · peak 119Dec 2024 — avg 67 · peak 153Jan 2025 — avg 79 · peak 164Feb 2025 — avg 72 · peak 145Mar 2025 — avg 84 · peak 208Apr 2025 — avg 71 · peak 135May 2025 — avg 59 · peak 117Jun 2025 — avg 104 · peak 243Jul 2025 — avg 99 · peak 196Aug 2025 — avg 117 · peak 278Sep 2025 — avg 140 · peak 296Oct 2025 — avg 74 · peak 175Nov 2025 — avg 50 · peak 106Dec 2025 — avg 45 · peak 97Jan 2026 — avg 50 · peak 103Feb 2026 — avg 127 · peak 397Mar 2026 — avg 118 · peak 269Apr 2026 — avg 93 · peak 185May 2026 — avg 82 · peak 159Jun 2026 — avg 79 · peak 155Jul 2026 — avg 130 · peak 362Aug 2026 — avg 182 · peak 338
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$21.99$8.992023-10-242026-10-092023-10-24 — best price $16.492023-11-09 — best price $21.992024-01-05 — best price $17.242024-02-11 — best price $13.592024-02-17 — best price $17.372024-03-07 — best price $15.992024-03-16 — best price $12.992024-03-22 — best price $13.592024-04-29 — best price $13.592024-06-12 — best price $16.992024-07-03 — best price $19.992024-07-12 — best price $13.592024-09-23 — best price $10.392024-11-21 — best price $15.992024-12-02 — best price $19.992024-12-19 — best price $9.192025-01-03 — best price $13.592025-02-05 — best price $10.912025-03-13 — best price $8.992025-03-24 — best price $16.992025-04-16 — best price $13.992025-05-05 — best price $10.392025-05-19 — best price $19.992025-06-02 — best price $13.592025-06-20 — best price $14.992026-02-12 — best price $13.992026-02-18 — best price $10.792026-02-26 — best price $19.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-08-28 — best price $19.992026-09-25 — best price $19.992026-10-09 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

51
achievements tracked
67.1%
earned "Lights Out"
10.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportGamepad RecommendedDualShock Controller SupportFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4,5325%51
Xbox Series (Xbox)1,4903%51
PS4 (PlayStation)1,32715%52
Switch (Nintendo)5710%0
Switch (Nintendo)100%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3DWarDramaActionStealthMilitaryTacticalAdventureCinematicStory Rich

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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