METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
Developer KONAMI
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is a 2015 action-adventure stealth game developed and published by Konami. Directed, written, and produced by Hideo Kojima (as his final work at Konami), it is the ninth main installment in the Metal Gear franchise, following Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, a stand-alone prologue released the previous year. Set in 1984, nine years after the events of Ground Zeroes, the story… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
431 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
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214 positive · 44 negative
95% range 78–87%
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60 of 431 · most liked firstMetal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2021)
unlabelledView post →Metal Gear Solid V: here’s a tragic explanation for why the heroine can’t wear clothes Death Stranding: here’s a tragic explanation for why the heroine has to wear clothes
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unlabelledView post →EDIT: 04/08/2026 they fixed the messy code on Denuvo, making TPP Fix not necessary, but still welcomed for other features. I still wonder why the DRM is still here in the first place and why would anyone waste time and resources to make it working. The fact that they are still paying for a subscription after not funding Kojima Productions to complete the game till the end is funny. Spend less money to get people angry, spend more money to get them even more angry. As of time of writing, SH:…
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unlabelledView post →Shout out to 10 years ago today when I woke up to drive to a Best Buy in Metairie right as it opened so that I could buy Metal Gear Solid V, its hardcover strategy guide, and Mad Max: Fury Road on steelbook before class started. Hard to believe it’s been a decade. Incredible game despite it all.
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unlabelledView post →Metal Gear Solid V 10th Anniversary art. Had this cooking for a few months.
unlabelledView post →This game was a technical marvel for years and had a dedicated modding community making it one of the best if not THE BEST open world stealth games... cue to 9th June of 2026 and new DRM update not only makes most of those mods unplayable, but also the game itself runs awfully without any mods installed. Konami really hates money, so DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Invisible Invisible Invisible Invisible walking by the wall (Shy one) the shadows will not fall (Shy one) is silently ignored (Quiet one) discouraged by the noise (Quiet one) living without choice (Quiet one) is a life without a voice When you can't even say my name Has the memory gone? Are you feeling numb? Go on, call my name I can't play this game, so I ask again Will you say my name? Has the memory gone? Are you feeling numb? Or have I become invisible? the dreamers wish away (Hindsight)…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →new art! RSPinUpChampionEdition - Quiet (Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain)
unlabelledView post →Venom Snake - Metal Gear Solid V #art #drawing #metalgearsolid #fanart
unlabelledView post →play the game until you find the Cassette Tape in Chapter 3 for Duran Duran's Invisible.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Adding denuvo in a silent update to an 11-year-old game... You're ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ insane.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015)
unlabelledView post →They added Denuvo, now the game runs like sheeet. It's like they are incentivizing piracy at this point. Edit: It seems like a recent update fixed the performance issues. I will leave this review as it is as a reminder of Konami's incompetence. Long live project PHYSINT!!!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If Konami were to ever rerelease Metal Gear Solid V but with the game altered so that cut and unfinished content was restored, including the full ending, all without Kojima’s involvement, how would you feel? Is this something that they should even think about doing?
unlabelledView post →10 years of Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain
unlabelledView post →Old Metal Gear Solid V art, this was a sort of redo of something I did back in 2022.
unlabelledView post →I really love metal gear, quite liteally every single entry. HOWEVER, a few weeks ago they've added DENUVO, or, an update to DENUVO. I've had the game since early may, and it ran fine on my 3070, month later i upgraded to a 5070ti. I played the game once with the 5070ti, ran beautifully. AFTER THIS UPDATE? Naw, horrendous performance issues, cant even maintain stable FPS in fire fights. i do not know what they did exactly, but it bricked this game for me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →New #cosplay - XOF (Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain) 📷 - @dblarg354.bsky.social
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unlabelledView post →"Man does not live in a country, he lives inside a language... Do not be mistaken, the fatherland is language and nothing else." - Emil Cioran. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is a game of profound, haunting contradictions. It is simultaneously the most mechanically perfect and the most narratively fractured entry in Hideo Kojima's legendary saga. It presents a philosophical ghost story about identity, language, and the cycle of vengeance, wrapped in the greatest sandbox infiltration…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As observed by Hideo Kojima in his 2015 docu-drama, Metal Gear Solid V.
unlabelledView post →Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015) Art by Yoji Shinkawa
unlabelledView post →Metal Gear Solid V making you wear the chicken hat 😩
unlabelledView post →Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015) Promo Image
unlabelledView post →It’s time to finish Metal Gear Solid V!! Yippee!! twitch.tv/Rose_Waltz
unlabelledView post →Metal Gear Solid V is so fucking Dumb, man.
unlabelledView post →2022 - 2024 The redo of the Metal Gear Solid V art I mentioned
unlabelledView post →Does this game still hold up? Yes. Is this game unfinished? Yes. Do I want Kojima to take over the MGS IP and complete his masterpiece? Yes and yes.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →-friend bought me game for birthday -game told me to enter birthday -characters sing me birthday song -happy
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (2014)
unlabelledView post →Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015) Art by Ashley Wood
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unlabelledView post →Quiet from Metal Gear Solid V, based this on akemy.sama cosplay on IG
unlabelledView post →'Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain' launched 10 year ago. Happy 10th Anniversary!
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unlabelledView post →Every now and again mankind reinvents Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
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unlabelledView post →Tonight at 8:30PM EST we go back to 2014, a time when gaming had to Become Very Serious and Kojimas way of doing this was sending you to Gitmo to shoot Americans in the head in Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. We also have Phantom Pain, which is Far Cry 2 but with a million dollar soundtrack.
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unlabelledView post →I told myself that I would never buy a game with DRM in it. Even after buying the game and seeing people online saying it had Denuvo in it, Steam still didn't say it did until recently. Wish I could have never bought it. Do yourself a favor and don't support bad business practices
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I’m at 100% completion but I keep opening up the game because it feels like I never finished it Almost like a phantom pain 10/10 piece of art, 9/10 as a stealth action game Still holds up 10 years later
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Metal Gear Solid V shit
unlabelledView post →I once had a dream where Skull Face from Metal Gear Solid V had Goofy’s voice. Nothing else changed about the game and it was never remarked upon.
unlabelledView post →Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015) Art by Yoji Shinkawa
unlabelledView post →Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes Artist - Yoji Shinkawa
unlabelledView post →There's a reason more than ten years after it's release Metal Gear Solid V is the title with most active players out of the entire series, Having played each title since Metal Gear Solid in 1998 I can assure you: this is the ultimate MGS experience. There is no stealth game quite like this one, every aspect of this game is superb: the missions, the open world, the AI, the story, the music, and gameplay, and how it plays with your emotions. There hasn't been a better game made in this genre…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →normal Metal Gear Solid V gameplay
unlabelledView post →Fun fact, this was the first ever Metal Gear game I ever played back when it released back in 2015. I was 15 when it came out and I remember being absolutely fckn CLUELESS about what was going on around me. I ran around and played through this game and loved everything about it really, the gameplay had me hooked! While all my friends were playing call of duty and battlefield I was sat in my room running around as a one eyed man with a metal arm. Flash forward to today, I'm 25 years old and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Video game: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Language: Japanese
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unlabelledView post →Don't get me wrong, the story sucks ass. Typical overblown convoluted Kojima nonsense. But from a pure gameplay experience, its the best I've played in 15 years. The freedom to approach every mission in any way you see fit is still unparalleled.
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unlabelledView post →Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Artist: Yoji Shinkawa
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