2000 · Arcade · Co-op · Side Scroller
How long isMETAL SLUG 3?
2.5 hours
for the typical playerhalf of them between 1.5 hours and 5.5 hours
METAL SLUG 3 among the 175 shoot 'em ups here
The whole tier list#72
of 175
ranked by owners here who played past two hours
- 52%
- got past 2 hours
- +8 on the kind's 44%
- 1%
- past 20 hours
- about the kind's 3%
- 78%
- launched it
- +13 on the kind's 65%
- 145
- libraries own it
- 1 in 17 of the 2,453 read here
Next to it in the ranking
A touch short for a shoot 'em up: 2.5 hours for the typical player, shorter than 111 of 202 shoot 'em ups here.
84% recommend it at 0 to 2 hours
93% recommend it at 2 to 5 hours
94% recommend it at 5 to 10 hours
95% recommend it at 10 to 20 hours
94% recommend it at 20 to 50 hours
Does METAL SLUG 3 hold up?
Holds steady
At least 93% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage from 2 to 50 hours played.
Earned when at least 90% of a game's Steam reviewers recommend it at every stage past the first two hours, counted over three or more stages of 200 reviews each, with no stage 5 points below an earlier one. Every game that holds it.
Do the first two hours of METAL SLUG 3 tell you?
In the first two hours84%recommend it
After that94%recommend it
10 in 100 said no: 4 after the window had closed, 6 while a refund was still possible.
How this is counted
Half of its Steam reviewers had played 2.5 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 1.5 hours and 5.5 hours.
One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 9,290 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.
It holds steady: between 93% and 95% recommend it at every stage past the first two hours.
39% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 84% of those recommend it. After the window, 94% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 38% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 1.5 hours in.
When would you get there?
3days
At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 2.5 hours on Monday, November 16.
Half of its reviewers had played between 1.5 and 5.5 hours: Nov 15 to Nov 19 at this pace.
How this is counted
The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.
Is METAL SLUG 3 worth it?
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One hour, at list price
METAL SLUG 3
- Steam list price, US
- $7.99
- Typical player
- ÷ 2.5 h
- shoot 'em up rate
- $3.33/h
- 2.5 h at that rate
- $8
About the going rate
List price. Not a sale price,
not what anyone paid.
Is METAL SLUG 3 worth it? Mostly.
Fair price
About what a typical shoot 'em up charges: $3.20 an hour
Loved
94% recommend it after the refund windowmost shoot 'em ups: 91%
Usually played
78% of owners here have played itmost shoot 'em ups: 75%
How this is counted
At Steam's US list price of $7.99, the typical player's 2.5 hours come to $3.20 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 94% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. An hour of METAL SLUG 3 costs about what the typical one of 202 shoot 'em ups here charges $3.33.
The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (shoot 'em ups) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.
Where can I play METAL SLUG 3 today?
On PS4 and PC
Its own release still plays there: no collection or remaster needed.
- PS32015
- PS Vita2015
- todayPS42015
- todayPC2015in Metal Slug Triple Pack
How this is counted
From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines METAL SLUG 3 came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.
Would you like METAL SLUG 3?
Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like METAL SLUG 3, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long METAL SLUG 3 would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.
How this is counted
It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.
Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.
@eltorga holds this page
Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.
What did people here do with METAL SLUG 3?
1 in 303
Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory
How this is counted
Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.
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How this is counted
Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from METAL SLUG 3: a kind of game it is that METAL SLUG 3 is not, a feature its tags carry that METAL SLUG 3's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.