One-off purchase
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain cost to play
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain on Steam UK: the standard and Definitive Experience prices, PEGI rating and Steam player numbers.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain gameplay, images and trailer
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The short version
- From £24.99: Cheapest standard price: METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN (Steam UK, standard price)
- One-off price: Bought once; no store currency or random items on this page
- 101 h to beat: Normal playthrough: 101 hours (IGDB)
- 25p an hour: £24.99 ÷ 101 hours (normal playthrough)
- 3,193 Steam peak: Peak concurrent players on Steam, last 30 days (Steam Charts)
- PEGI 18: Age rating
- Released
- 1 September 2015
- Developer
- KONAMI
- Platforms
- PS3, PS4, PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One
- Age rating
- PEGI 18
- Genre
- Action, Shooter, Strategy
- Modes
- Single-player, Multiplayer
On this page
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain player count
Concurrent players on Steam, from Steam Charts, read 28 Oct 2026.
- Peak, last 30 days
- 2,707
- Peak, Sept 2026
- 3,552
- 2,144 on average
- Change vs Aug 2026
- +64%
- monthly peak
- All-time peak
- 90,952
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Is Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain dead?
No. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain peaked at 3,552 players at once on Steam in September 2026, with 2,144 playing at any moment on average. Peaks are up 55% on the three months before. These are Steam players only; people playing on PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One or other PC stores aren't counted, so the real number is higher.
| Month | Average | Peak | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | 2,144 | 3,552 | +63.8% |
| August 2026 | 1,409 | 2,168 | −8.1% |
| July 2026 | 1,411 | 2,360 | +41.5% |
| June 2026 | 1,048 | 1,668 | −3.4% |
| May 2026 | 1,145 | 1,726 | −4.5% |
| April 2026 | 1,158 | 1,807 | −7.6% |
| March 2026 | 1,218 | 1,955 | −4.4% |
| February 2026 | 1,199 | 2,044 | +14.1% |
| January 2026 | 1,161 | 1,791 | +2.5% |
| December 2025 | 1,129 | 1,747 | −27.7% |
| November 2025 | 1,414 | 2,415 | −37.9% |
| October 2025 | 2,132 | 3,886 | – |
What Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain costs to play
| Item | Price | Per |
|---|---|---|
| METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN (Steam UK, standard price) | £24.99 | game |
| METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Definitive Experience (Steam UK, standard price) | £24.99 | game |
Source for every row: store.steampowered.com · checked 21 Oct 2026
How long is Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain?
A normal playthrough of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain takes about 101 hours.
- Rushing the story49 h
- Normal playthrough101 h
Cost per hour (normal playthrough)
25p
£24.99 on Steam UK ÷ 101 h
Averages of 6 players’ submitted times on IGDB, read 28 Oct 2026. Your time will vary with difficulty and play style.
How Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is rated
GamesChart Score
86.8, #61 of 3,236 rated games
#4 of 2015 · #33 of the 2010s · #1 in Tactical · #35 on Xbox
Critics
Players
Built from 83,144 ratings across 5 of 5 sources. Critics and players count 50/50. Ratings pulled 5 November 2026.
Where it sits in the ranking
- #60
Portal2007 · Valve86.8 - #61
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain2015 · Kojima Productions86.8 - #62
What Remains of Edith Finch2017 · Giant Sparrow86.7
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain questions
How much does Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain cost in the UK?
METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN (Steam UK, standard price): £24.99. METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Definitive Experience (Steam UK, standard price): £24.99. Prices checked 21 October 2026.
Is Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain free to play?
No. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is not free to play: you buy the game to play it.
How long is Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain?
Rushing the story: about 49 hours. Normal playthrough: about 101 hours (averages of 6 players' times on IGDB). At £24.99, that's 25p per hour (normal playthrough).
What age rating is Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain?
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is rated PEGI 18.
How many people play Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain?
Peak concurrent players on Steam, last 30 days (Steam Charts): 3,193, checked 21 October 2026. Its all-time Steam peak is 90,952.
What is Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain's all-time Steam peak?
90,952 concurrent players on Steam, the highest Steam Charts has recorded for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (read 28 October 2026). The peak in the last 30 days was 2,707. Players on other stores and consoles aren't counted.
Is Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain dead?
No. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain peaked at 3,552 players at once on Steam in September 2026, with 2,144 playing at any moment on average. Peaks are up 55% on the three months before. These are Steam players only; people playing on PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One or other PC stores aren't counted, so the real number is higher.
Do these Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain player numbers include consoles?
No. The player counts on this page are Steam only (Steam Charts, read 28 October 2026). People playing on PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, through Game Pass or on other PC stores aren't counted, and publishers rarely publish those figures.
Who makes Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain?
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is developed by KONAMI.
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is a single-player tactical action game with an online multiplayer mode, published by Konami and first released in 2015 on PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. It came to Steam on 1 September 2015 and is sold as a one-off purchase.
How it plays
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is an open-world stealth action game set in 1984, during the Cold War. Nine years after the events of Ground Zeroes and the fall of Mother Base, Snake, also known as Big Boss, wakes from a nine-year coma. Driven by revenge, he sets up a new private army and returns to the battlefield to hunt the shadow group XOF.
Konami's description centres on tactical freedom. Missions take place in an open world, and players choose how to approach each one and how to progress through the game as a whole. The story deals with mature themes such as the psychology of warfare.
The game is built on Konami's Fox Engine. Steam lists single-player and multiplayer, leaderboards, full controller support and in-app purchases, and Konami says online connectivity carries the game beyond the main platform to other devices.
What it costs
At standard price the game costs £24.99 on Steam UK. Steam also sells METAL GEAR SOLID V: The Definitive Experience at the same £24.99. Steam lists 13 DLC items for the game.
Players
The 30-day peak on Steam Charts was 3,193 concurrent players on 21 October 2026. Its all-time peak on Steam is 90,952. Console players aren't counted.
Age rating
Steam's store data rates the game PEGI 18, with bad language, violence and online gameplay as content descriptors, and ESRB M. It is not suitable for players under 18.
How we checked
Prices are from the Steam UK store data, read on 21 October 2026, at standard price. Player figures are from Steam Charts on the same day. The age rating is from Steam's store data. The gameplay description is based on the publisher's Steam store page.
It ranks #61 in our best games of all time ranking.
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