METAL GEAR SOLID Δ: SNAKE EATER

Based on the 6,354 most recent Steam reviews · updated 2 Oct 2026

• English reviews: 5,000, 21 Sept 2025 – 2 Oct 2026
• Russian reviews: 1,354, 26 Aug 2025 – 27 Sept 2026

• ▼ Not recommended

  43 h at review58 h total

  29 Jun 2026

  It pains me to rate this negatively since you'll all see I poured in a good amount of time playing the game in both Normal and Legacy modes but I need to. Since it's a faithful remake, there's nothing else I can praise on the core gameplay that hasn't been said before in the past 20 years. The QOL improvements and graphics is something I can praise currently, even including the Snake vs Monkey mode. In my eyes, MGS3 was perfection. However I still have to not recommend this for now since it's still a badly optimized game and priced absurdly. The UE5 choice was bad enough but not expanding on the graphics option was very questionable. Even gamers with good rigs still have problems running this game, so much that modders came to the rescue again just to deliver a stable experience. The time and effort on implementing Fox Hunt, which is essentially a dead online mode now could've gone more to optimization. Really disappointing. As much as I love MGS3, I cannot in good faith recommend a game that relies so much on outside configurations and fixes just to work properly.

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• ▼ Not recommended

  15 h at review15 h total

  18 Oct 2025

  Nearly two months after release, there's still a gamebreaking bug of the game freezing hard if you tranquilize enemies during the jungle escape/escort part just before the final boss battle. My first two attempts ended with my needing to terminate the process via task manager after firing tranq shots at the pursuers. A quick Google search revealed it has been a fairly consistent issue for some users. It's a shame because the overall remake is terrific. Outside of just the obvious new models, textures, and lighting, there's been lots of work done to facial animations, sound mixing, gameplay movement animations, etc. There are some minor problems with the revised graphics, like the focal point being wrong in some cutscene shots (the focus being on the wrong thing or on nothing at all), but they're fairly minor. Secret Theater has made a comeback after its removal from the HD, Legacy and Master Collection releases, but now it sadly takes much more effort to unlock its contents. The multiplayer mode from the Subsistence edition is set to return in a future update, too. I have little to no interest in playing it, but I appreciate the effort of its resurrection after the disappearance it shared with Secret Theater. EDIT: Apparently, it's not the multiplayer from Subsistence but rather some new MP mode.

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• ▼ Not recommended

  0.6 h at review0.6 h total

  15 Oct 2025

  while I was wicked excited to play the mgs3 remake it needs more optimization before its worth buying

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• ▲ Recommended

  19 h at review19 h total

  26 Jun 2026

  A Revolutionary Classic I don't know what to say, such an insane game. Really revolutionary. It's already been acknowledged as a masterpiece and I agree, so I'll keep this very short. A Timeless Classic It's my first time playing this game and the details in this game are still mind-blowing. You almost never see this level of attention to detail unless you are playing a Rockstar game. It is the Red Dead Redemption 2 of its time, and like RDR2, MGS3 is a much better experience than almost all new releases today. Gameplay, Story and Presentation The gameplay is insane. The story is goofy and unserious at times, but it hits you hard at the end with its presentation and story twists. Snake Eater Theme is phenomenal. Technical Issues It is very poorly optimized. A 60 FPS cap plus a 20-year-old game taking up 120 GB for whatever reason is nonsense and a lazy job. Final Thoughts I think Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater is the second best work of Kojima, after DEATH STRANDING. GOLDEN MEDAL Follow my Curator Page For More Reviews ⚜️

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• ▼ Not recommended

  17 h at review17 h total

  28 Feb 2026

  Let me be clear. This is a masterpiece of a game wrapped in a frustratingly unoptimized package, and that's exactly why I can't recommend it in good conscience. The remake itself is stunning. The jungle environments are gorgeous, the stealth gameplay holds up beautifully, and the story remains one of gaming's greatest. Seeing Snake Eater rebuilt from the ground up is genuinely emotional for longtime fans. But here's the reality: I had to dig into ini files just to get the game running decently. Manual ini tweaks, forced frame generation through config edits, Balanced upscaling mode, and AMD Super Resolution scaling from 1080p to 1440p, all just to chase a stable frame rate. That's not acceptable for a mainstream release. Even after all that, certain areas still stutter noticeably. The opening swim sequence with the alligators and the Shagohod battle both have performance hiccups that break immersion at the worst possible moments. This is becoming an all-too-familiar story with Unreal Engine 5 titles. Beautiful games shipped with lazy optimization that punishes players who don't know how to dig under the hood. Most people won't. They'll just suffer through it or refund it. Wait for patches. Wait for a sale. But don't buy this at full price expecting it to run well out of the box. Edit: PC SPECS: GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6750 XT (RDNA 2, Navi 22 KXT) 12GB GDDR6 192-bit | 2560 Shading Units | 40 RT Cores | 96MB Infinity Cache Min 2524 MHz / Max 2624 MHz locked CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X (Zen 3) 8C/16T | Boost up to 4850 MHz | PPT 142W unlocked RAM: 32GB DDR4 3600MHz | XMP | 1.360V Storage: 2TB WD_BLACK SN7100 NVMe 7,250 MB/s Read | 6,900 MB/s Write

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  Games owned: 199 · Reviews written: 53

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• ▲ Recommended

  64 h at review66 h total

  27 Aug 2025

  Половину отрицательных отзывов не понимаю, то ли нытики фпсдрочеры, то ли зажравшиеся задроты На моем древнем компе 55 кадров, 0 вылетов и багов Норм игруха 9/10, ремейк такой какой он должен быть https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3575884910

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• ▲ Recommended

  0.6 h at review15 h total

  26 Aug 2025

  Такого великолепия я ещё не ел...: Плюсы: + нет поддержки широкоформатных мониторов + настолько мыло что нельзя отключить сглаживание + фильтры нвидия недоступны + Лок 60 фпс + желейное управление + игра чисто эмулирована с пс3 ремастер Минусов нет Всем удачи насладится, манибэкать не буду, тупо отличная игра с технической стороны адатирована под консоли, сразу видно, что разрабы проявили огромное уважение к большей части аудитории на пк

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• ▼ Not recommended

  2.1 h at review2.1 h total

  27 Jun 2026

  Jerking themselves off about building it in unreal engine 5 and then having everything locked to 60 fps while charging a ridiculous price is absolutely criminal for a pc game in this age, it looks and feels awful playing on a 360 hz OLED even with Gsync, add in the fact you have to setup shaders every single time the game is booted up makes this a permanent negative review. The solution to the terrible frame rate is to go into nvidia app and enable smooth motion, this completely fixes the issue and makes the game actually look and feel good to play, you're still stuck wasting a few minutes on shader setup every time you start the game though. Actually just going to refund it, the constant shader installation and having to press two separate buttons every time i want to aim in first person is just too tedious for a game of this price tag.

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• ▼ Not recommended

  11 h at review11 h total

  14 May 2026

  Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is an EXPENSIVE, better looking, but significantly worse performing version of the classic game it’s based on. I’m giving this a negative review for a couple of reasons. 1. The game’s performance does not justify its 70$ price tag. Unacceptable 60 FPS lock and wack frame times, UE5 jank at its worse… 2. As a remake and introduction to the Metal Gear Solid franchise for the first time, I think this entry should be the last game you play of the original trilogy to preserve Hideo Kojima’s original sequencing of this narrative, despite this game chronologically taking place first in the timeline. 3. Again, SEVENTY DOLLARS for an 11 hour remake. You will get much more bang for your buck by purchasing the Master Collection Vol. 1. You get Metal Gear Solid 1, 2, and 3 for 60$ (10$ less than this)

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• ▼ Not recommended

  3.5 h at review3.5 h total

  25 Nov 2025

  maybe come back to this when it gets a proper optimize update or something, it looks and can play really great but the fps just isnt there.

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• ▼ Not recommended

  0.7 h at review0.7 h total

  11 Feb 2026

  Сейчас же убери курсор от кнопки «добавить в корзину» и подними руки так, чтобы я их видел. Про этот выкидыш современного геймдева хочется сказать «Кодзима не хотел, Konami не старалась». Из актуального здесь только системные требования и цена, все остальное взято прямиком из 2004-го. Локации, физика, игровые механики и технические ограничения эпохи PS2 – все, что было в оригинале, без каких-либо доработок небрежно швырнули в Unreal Engine 5 и нажали кнопку «прогреть гоев», приправив парочкой анимаций из Phantom Pain, чтобы не списывать точь-в-точь. Этот набор пятикратно переваренных ассетов выглядит как пятая часть на PS4, а ресурсов жрет как Cyberpunk 2077 с трассировкой. Настройки графики чисто консольные: три пресета, пара ползунков, а также два варианта FPS – 30 и 60. И если у вас видеокарта уровня ниже RTX 4090, про второй можете забыть. Все положительные стороны этой пародии на ремейк заключаются в его первоисточнике. И стоит ли переплачивать, если можно в четыре раза дешевле получить все то же самое, но без последствий криворукого использования UE5? Лично я лучше еще три раза куплю ленивый порт HD-ремастера, чем продолжу в это играть.

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• ▼ Not recommended

  8.8 h at review18 h total

  26 Aug 2025

  насколько надо было забить хyй на оптимизацию, что игра, где небольшие кишкообразные локации 10х10 метров с несколькими врагами тянет в нестабильных 40-60фпс с длсс качество на r5 7600x + rtx 4070 в 1440p. кажется что такое просто невозможно сделать, но конами смогли. что насчет самого ремейка - это просто графическая оболочка поверх не измененной старой игры, что то типо ремейка обливиона который выходил пол года назад

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• ▼ Not recommended

  0.6 h at review0.6 h total

  1 Aug 2026

  Even after going through the effort of implementing two of the most recommended community fixes, the game barely scratches 60 FPS on average. If they had stuck with the original FOX Engine from MGSV, the game still would have received a massive graphical upgrade compared to its original 2004 release—and it would have run so much better than this. Unless they go back, optimize the engine, and lower the hardware requirements (which I highly doubt they ever will), I cannot recommend purchasing this, even on sale—and even if you have a 40-series card.

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• ▲ Recommended

  14 h at review15 h total

  29 Oct 2025

  another overpriced triple a game, only took me 10 hours to beat it and even then i was just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ around, people have beaten it glitchless in under an hour, another example of why steam needs to finally add fraction based ratings for games, i cant just simply decide between whether i love or hate this game, it was good no doubt about it, but 70 dollars for 10 hours of entertainment IF youre just messing around is ridiculous, most people would say to play the extra modes, but it isnt exactly logical to say 70 bucks for a crazy short game is justified because it has 2 mini games that just might an increase play time by an hour or 2, in short, this game is good, but absolutely make sure you dont pay full price.

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• ▼ Not recommended

  2 h at review2 h total

  6 Dec 2025

  Seems like it might be a fun game if they get the absolute atrocious performance under control. On one of my PCs, 9800x3D, ProArt 4080 Super, 32GB DDR5 CL18 running at 6000 MT/s the cut scenes have a difficult time hitting 40-50 FPS and that is with DLSS Quality on!!! Seriously WTH? How can a game be this poorly optimized? I'm at my time limit for a return so even though I'd like to continue this is a return for me. Get your stuff together Konami. Seriously sad.

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• ▲ Recommended

  51 h at review51 h total

  30 Aug 2026

  Out of nowhere, Konami took it upon themselves the Herculean task of recreating one of the greatest games ever made. And as catastrophic as the range of possibilities may look, incredibly, they succeeded. Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is a borderline perfect remake of a borderline perfect game. And it is precisely so because of the incredible level of respect displayed by Konami and the ex-KJP members. It doesn't try to reinvent the wheel, it doesn't try to "modernize" or adapt the story for "modern audiences," it doesn't dumb down the experience. Delta is unapologetically just "MGS3 if it were released in 2025". Metal Gear Solid was always about unlimited freedom inside a linear framework. It's a "linear" game that offers you complete control of your approach to the current situation. There's always more than one way of completing the task at hand, and the game rewards you for unhinged creativity like no other game ever did. With all of the new zones compared to its predecessors (we went from base infiltrations to wild forests and jungles!), MGS3 tunes this design philosophy up to eleven, with all kinds of different approaches to different situations. Need to get past a guard? You can tranquilize him, you can kill him. You can sneak around undetected, you can knock on a wall to emit distracting noises. You can shoot a fruit from a tree and infiltrate while the guard is distracted. You can shoot the closest hornet hive and laugh as they rush him down. You can even toss him a live poisonous snake you captured earlier (and it'll poison him!). You can disguise yourself as a scientist, or as a maintenance crew member, or as a high-ranking general. You can even wear a USSR uniform, and he'll think twice before shooting his own colors! You can throw him an empty magazine, or sneak around with a cardboard box. You can blow up his food warehouses to make him starve, then throw him food to lure him in. Poisonous food, too! Or even rotten food you forgot in your backpack for days! You can call Soviet HQ and order an airstrike to pulverize the poor guard. Don't forget the adult magazines, either! And finally, you can just unequip your camouflage, equip a heavy machine gun and go in guns blazing, Rambo style. The possibilities are endless, and it's up to you as a player to express yourself the way you want to. In the modern day and age, without the original team and director, Konami could never replicate this level of greatness, and apparently they know it. How do you remake something that's already perfect? So they took the safe, and correct approach, which is to not change it. Just modernize it. Give it gorgeous UE5 graphics with Nanite geometry and Lumen lighting, which, to be frank, are clearly rushed and not optimized at all. But that's a trend across every UE5 game, it seems, and a reflection of the current state of the industry. Give it a different, more modern twist on gameplay mechanics: change the camera placement, make it resemble MGSV. Recreate the control scheme to distance the game from the 2004 original controls that were heavily dependent on the DualShock 2’s pressure-sensitive buttons. Re-record some voice lines if the originals sound out of place (such as Snake's scream when he dislocates his arm near the end of Virtuous Mission). Re-record the classic Snake Eater opening, by itself another Herculean task, since we’re talking about one of the greatest videogame openings of all time. Add new collectibles, why not? The GA-KO ducks always felt lacking compared to the Kerotan frogs in the original, so now we got 64 new yellow ducks to shoot. And that's it! Changes shouldn't be disrespectful or alter the original director's vision. A Capcom-style reimagining of classics would never work here. Adding new things is always acceptable, as long as they don't interfere with the original experience. And Delta does this masterfully: there are changes, but you have to be very perceptive to actually see them. Volgin's death, for example, was changed! Now it plays the characteristic Man on Fire SFX from MGSV: TPP, and his model was redesigned to better portray the immolated Volgin from MGSV. These, among other slight changes, are great and respectful additions to an already complete and borderline perfect package. Great job, Konami! All in all, Delta plays it safe, and who would have thought, that was the perfect approach. I believe Metal Gear Solid 3 never actually needed a remake, but the DualShock 2 controls were never perfectly adapted to modern consoles (even the PS3 HD Collection botched the pressure-sensitive button implementation, removing all precision and control from the player), and the original Snake Eater camera doesn't really sit well with modern players. Konami fixed it all, gave the game a fresh coat of paint, and called it a day. And that's exactly how you create a 10/10 remake. As unbelievable as it sounds, Konami actually remade Metal Gear Solid 3 (lol!), and they nailed it!

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• ▼ Not recommended

  4.9 h at review33 h total

  26 Aug 2025

  Легендарная классика в красивой (но херово работающей) обёртке. Графика: Если ваш ПК обладает как минимум 4060, то претензий к картинке у вас, скорее всего, не возникнет. Оптимизации в игре нет. Фпс ограничен максимум 60 (но если у вас что то ниже 4060 и на эти 60 не надейтесь). Поддержки ultrawide мониторов НЕТ. Например я - счастливый обладатель такого. Игра принудительно работает в 16:9. Все анимации выглядят так же, что на сегодняшний день выглядит слегка кринжово. Вероятно, это дань оригиналу. Звук: Качество звука на мой слух (а мне слон уши отдавил) незначительно отличается от версии с PS3 в лучшую сторону. Геймплей: абсолютно тот же что и в оригинале, но с человеческой схемой управления, из за чего игра будет чуть проще чем на ps2/ps3. По итогу единственное, чем выделяется эта игра относительно оригинала это графика. Игра по сути не ремейк, а ремастер. А точнее - рескин. Рескин на UE5. На Steam Deck на минималках игра выглядит отвратительно с апскейлерами на производительность. Картинка сыпется, теней нет от слова совсем, что визуально выглядит хуже, чем эмуляция оригинала с ps3. Единственный способ игры, который лично в моем случае не вызывает особого дискомфорта - это стриминг картинки с пк на деку в ее родном разрешении 800p. В этом случае игра держит твёрдые 60 кадров на высоких и неплохо играется. Инпут лаг не ощущается. В общем, игра своих денег однозначно не стоит (в моем случае в пересчете на рубли я потратил 3к рублей, и даже этих денег я бы за такое состояние не дал, но во многих регионах она продаётся за фулпрайс в 80-90 долларов, что вообще мрак) Она уже доступна в зелёных, ничего не пропогандирую, просто fyi. По хорошему бы рефанднуть, но не стану, все же пройду как есть, надеясь хоть на какие то патчи. Дополняю отзыв спустя еще примерно час игры (и час ебени со стримингом игры с пк на деку) Все таки в стриминге так же есть свой минус - в рандомный момент, и особенно на кат сценах стриминг может перестать отображать картинку, так что я продолжаю играть на деке. Немного поправлю по апскейлерам: кажется что с TSR картинка разваливается меньше, чем с FSR (на деке apu amd, следственно нет dlss) Сделать игру играбельной возможно с помощью утки (lossless scaling), утка уберёт значительную часть микрофризов, хоть и добавит артефактов на картинку. На деке они не так бросаются в глаза, в целом игра становится играбельной. В очередной раз удивляюсь тому, как небольшая утилита помогает хоть как то играть в такие игры на палубе. Отдельно хотелось бы отметить качество вступительного ролика (после первой встречи с Оцелотом) - тут разрыв жопы, хорошо сделано. В целом - чувствуется, что разработчики ПРАВДА пытались сделать игру в духе оригинала, уделяли внимание деталям, свойственным оригиналу. И если бы не проблемы с производительностью из за сраного ue5 - у них бы это действительно получилось. В общем ощущения пока что очень двоякие. Советовать ее покупать сейчас я по прежнему не могу, но и совсем втаптывать ее в грязь нет желания.

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• ▲ Recommended

  34 h at review45 h total

  26 Nov 2025

  If you have the NVIDIA app, enable the smoothing option for this game. I did this and even though the game is locked at 60 FPS, I can still have a good experience with 120 FPS which has fake 60 frames but is stable and more enjoyable. The only saving grace for this edition of the game for me is the save and load system. I don't have to look at the logos everytime the enemy sees my pinky toe.

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• ▼ Not recommended

  19 h at review19 h total

  26 Aug 2025

  Пятикратно переваренная оптимизация

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• ▼ Not recommended

  4 h at review5.3 h total

  16 Aug 2026

  wanted to like it so bad. it runs like crap, stuttery crap.

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