Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is the origin story of Naked Snake and his mentor The Boss and the fifth title in the METAL GEAR series.
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Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
14 of 15 markets; the rest we haven't asked for this title, not markets where it is unavailable.
Availability
We put this game to every storefront we collect. A market that answered not sold has told us something about the game; a market we never asked has not, and the two are never drawn the same.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 395.5/day in the week to Jul 15 → 5.71/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 23 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 14 places towards #1, and the 2,420 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Genres
Sums Steam only; Xbox, Nintendo publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $19.99 | 7.1Kreviews | 89% | — | $2.7M |
| $19.99 | 469ratings | 94% | — | not modelled | |
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 491 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
Snake sendo Snake em mais um MGS
Probably the best MGS overall, worked great with mouse and keyboard. The definition of a great prequel. Great soundtrack, expected in this series.
cardboard box...
Media
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14 on sale1 answered “not sold”0 we did not ask
The 1 “not sold” market is read from the Steam price pass of Aug 31: that day the store answered for this game elsewhere and gave no price there. The 14 priced markets are the same rows as the table above — each the latest price we hold, dated here when it is older than that pass. The 0 marked “not asked” were not put to this store at all — either it has no storefront there or we do not collect it yet, and neither is a statement about the game. A refusal is a refusal on one day; a store can list a title again tomorrow.
Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese**languages with full audio support
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Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 491 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
best game ever made
Ladder
Enjoyed The Snake I Ate
Gooning 007 Masterclass poulet
Really good and also surprisingly relevant today. I REALLY miss mgs2's alert system though. The stealth in this game is very very frustrating because of the near telepathic guards (only in very rare cases does a takedown after being spotted drop the alert, it feels almost random to me. 80% of the time every guard instantly knows where you are.). The controls are also wayyy more finickey than mgs2, I frequently get stuck when crawling and stalking for hold ups and grabs is just so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ boring, I get that running up to an enemy is a little on the nose, but its way more fun than this games overly observant guards. The bosses are also very disappointing. (boss spoilers below) [spoiler] played on normal and I one tried Ocelot, Pain, Fear, two tried End, two tried Fury, one tried Sorrow, three tried Volgin, and one tried both Shagohod fights. The boss was the *only* fight that put up really any resistance on normal AND EVEN THAT WAS EASILY BREATABLE NON LETHAL ONCE I REALIZED YOU CAN STEALTH WITH THE SNOW SUIT AND MOSIN. The stealth was 100% harder than the bosses this go around. And the bosses I found fun were Ocelot, Fury, Volgin, and The Boss. The rest are tedious and boringly easy (or just boringly straightforward and simple.) Very few gimmicks in the bosses compared to 2 and 1. (I love the motorcycle scenes with EVA though, infinite ammo and rocket spam is really fun, first Shagohod phase is great for that reason too.)[/spoiler] The story is incredible in this one, maybe a little less thought provoking than 2's when alls said and done, but it is still very interesting to see the origins of the Big Boss. Unfortunately, I really am not very fond of the characters you can speak to on the codec this time around, Major Zero is... ok? he feels like a billboard for where you have to go whenever you speak to him, and has no real interesting moments unlike Campbell from 1/2. Paramedic is cute, and I like the movie talk when saving, but mei ling from 1 is 10000% more enjoyable. And I talked to Sigint like 3 times, really never needed to talk to him. All in all I'd give this game a [b]solid[/b] 7/10
Que absoluto juegazo, completamente divertido. Me doy cuenta de que el Delta no le hace ni pizca de justicia.
YEEEEEEEEE
Active players
Estimated daily and monthly active players (DAU/MAU) modeled from peak concurrency.
Players by region
Where this game's players are, estimated from review languages.
Players also reviewed
The games this title's players most often review too — audience affinity.
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