How many people are playing Metal Gear Solid?

Metal Gear Solid does not publish a public player count and is not on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts figure. The closest live popularity signal is Twitch viewership: 27 people are watching right now, peaking at 221 this week.

Is Metal Gear Solid on Steam?

No. Metal Gear Solid is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.

Is Metal Gear Solid still popular?

Metal Gear Solid is declining. Over the past 30 days Twitch viewership is down 30%.

When did Metal Gear Solid release?

Metal Gear Solid was first released on September 3, 1998.

Metal Gear Solid

Sep 3, 1998ShooterTacticalAdventurePlayStation 3 PlayStation PlayStation Portable Nintendo GameCubeGame.com

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Metal Gear Solidplayer count & live stats

Metal Gear Solid is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. The closest public, real-time popularity signal is Twitch viewership: 27 people are watching Metal Gear Solid on Twitch right now, peaking at 221 this week (last checked 39 minutes ago).

DecliningTwitch viewership is down 30% over the last 30 days.

Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo GameCube +2
First released: Sep 3, 1998

Metal Gear Solid live stats

Watching on Twitch

Concurrent viewers · hourly

53 24-hour peak viewers

221 7-day peak viewers

1,417 30-day peak viewers

8,772 12-month peak viewers

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Live stats last updated 39 minutes ago.

Metal Gear Solid monthly peaks

Highest concurrent viewers recorded each month, most recent first.

Peak viewers reached 8,772 in August 2026 and has since fallen 84%, to 1,417 in October.

Month	Peak viewers	Share of peak
November 2026so far	73	1%
October 2026	1,417	16%
September 2026	630	7%
August 2026	8,772	100%
July 2026	7,740	88%
June 2026	4,336	49%

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Metal Gear Solid — frequently asked questions

How many people are playing Metal Gear Solid?: Metal Gear Solid does not publish a public player count and is not on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts figure. The closest live popularity signal is Twitch viewership: 27 people are watching right now, peaking at 221 this week.
Is Metal Gear Solid on Steam?: No. Metal Gear Solid is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.
What platforms is Metal Gear Solid on?: Metal Gear Solid is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo GameCube, Game.com, PocketStation.
Is Metal Gear Solid still popular?: Metal Gear Solid is declining. Over the past 30 days Twitch viewership is down 30%.
When did Metal Gear Solid release?: Metal Gear Solid was first released on September 3, 1998.

About Metal Gear Solid

Metal Gear Solid is a stealth game created by Hideo Kojima which follows the MSX2 video games Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. Despite a transition to 3D, Metal Gear Solid's gameplay remains similar to his predecessors. The game utilizes a traditional top-down view and the player must navigate the protagonist Solid Snake through the game's areas without being detected. Detection will set off an alarm which draws armed enemies to his location. Conversations with Snake's allies and cutscenes are used extensively to advance the plot and gain more insight into it. Metal Gear Solid is regarded as one of the greatest and most important video games of all time, and helped popularize the stealth genre and in-engine cinematic cutscenes.

Summary via IGDB.

Metal Gear Solid on Wikipedia

Metal Gear Solid is a 1998 action-adventure stealth game developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation. Directed, produced, and written by Hideo Kojima, the game is the third mainline installment in the Metal Gear series, the seventh chronologically, and serves as a sequel to the MSX2 game Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (1990). The game's story follows Solid Snake, a former Special Forces operative who is pulled out of retirement by the U.S. government to infiltrate Shadow Moses, a nuclear weapons facility that has been taken over by rogue unit FOXHOUND, led by Liquid Snake. Solid Snake must liberate hostages and prevent FOXHOUND from using Metal Gear REX, a mecha capable of delivering a nuclear warhead anywhere in the world, while confronting his own origins.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).

Game details

Platforms: PlayStation 3, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo GameCube, Game.com, PocketStation
Developer: Konami Computer Entertainment Japan
Publisher: Konami
ESRB rating: M
Game modes: Single player
Themes: Action, Science fiction, Survival, Stealth
Series: Metal Gear
Official site: Visit

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Reception

IGDB rating

85/100

from 1,680 ratings

Every version compared

Prices, contemporary reception and the studio credited for each release

Also released on: PlayStation 3 · PlayStation · PlayStation Portable · Nintendo GameCube · Game.com · PocketStation. We haven’t priced or authenticated those versions yet.