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Metal Slug: Awakening

Tencent · HAOPLAY Limited · 2024-07-19

Steam

ActionAdventureCasualMassively MultiplayerRPGFree To Play

Franchise: Metal Slug · Modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Jul 19, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 19, 2024 (Android), Jul 19, 2024 (iOS)

Metal Slug: Awakening continues the classic gameplay loved by fans, with exciting new features like World Adventure, 3-player Team-up, and Roguelike challenges. Join forces with your friends online to take on powerful bosses anytime, anywhere!

Metal Slug: Awakening is an Action, Adventure, Casual, Massively Multiplayer game released in 2024, free-to-play, with a Mixed review sentiment (67% of 3692 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-10-14

67%
positive of 3.7k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
Free
steam price (US)

Trailer

Metal Slug: Awakening trailer thumbnail

Metal Slug: Awakening - Official Trailer

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Health check

Healthy
  • · 248 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~31/week).
  • · Review velocity down 19% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (987 reviews).
  • · Top 8% of 27,858 Action games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
59359320242026Week of 2024-07-01: 593 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 394 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 383 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 216 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 218 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 112 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 147 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 477 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 182 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 42 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 4 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerIn-App PurchasesPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

7 supported languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil

Where its players are

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

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