METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-10-08
- Best-in-series gameplay experience
- High replayability and content value
- Exceptional stealth gameplay mechanics
- Extremely short game length
- Essentially a demo or prologue
- Not worth full price
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAMmixedWindows 12-15GB VRAMnegative
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 18,333
- Positive
- 15,55884.9%
- Negative
- 2,77515.1%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 1,287,960
- Estimated revenue
- $38,625,920
- Game price
- $30
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 373.01%
- Estimated copies lost
- 2,599
- Estimated revenue lost
- $77,944
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 373% Avg playtime 1.3h | 1229.9% Avg playtime 1.3h |
| > 2h playtime | 877.1% Avg playtime 9.8h | 98380% Avg playtime 16.4h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.3 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 4.7 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 18.7 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,311.3 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
1,229 total
Organic purchasers89672.9%
Voted up: 90%
Key activations33327.1%
Voted up: 89%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
1,229 total
First impression0-2h20416.6%
Voted up: 79%
Mid game2-10h64552.5%
Voted up: 90%
Late game10-20h19515.9%
Voted up: 95%
Endgame20h+18515.1%
Voted up: 96%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
92.9%
Global baseline 89.9%
28 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 18,333 total.