How Long to Beat Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is a very faithful remake of the original PlayStation 2 classic, but there are a few new additions that ramp up the total playtime. The main campaign is still the bulk of the experience in Metal Gear Solid Delta, but some new collectibles and returning minigames like Snake vs. Monkey can add a few hours on top.

By today’s standards, however, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is still a very short game. Experienced players can rush through the whole thing in just a few hours, but if you take your time and search for collectibles, animals, weapons, and camo patterns, you can easily take twice as long as someone else. Here’s how long it’ll take you to beat Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater.

On average, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater will take you 10-15 hours to complete if you watch all the cutscenes and take the time to sneak past guards without being detected. Things can take a bit longer on harder difficulty levels, though, and the opposite applies to easier difficulty modes.

If you’re a Metal Gear Solid veteran who knows the PS2 original inside and out, you can finish MGS Delta in 5-10 hours. The overall playtime gets much shorter if you start skipping cutscenes, too. There’s even a title awarded for finishing the game in under five hours, so it’s easy to blitz through the main story if you know what you’re doing.

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater adds some new collectibles into the mix, however, and even experienced Snake Eater fans will get stumped by their placements. There are 64 Kerotan frogs to collect just like in the original game, but MGS Delta adds an additional 64 GA-KO ducks to the game on top of those. The ducks are much, much harder to spot as well since they have camouflage to help them blend into the environment. If you’re dead set of hunting them all down, you can easily add a few extra hours to your Metal Gear Solid Delta playthrough.

Some of the missions/bosses listed below might be spoiler territory, so proceed with caution!

While Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is one continuous mission (not counting the gap between the Virtuous Mission prologue and Operation Snake Eater), the game’s bosses can be used as milestones to determine how far you are through the story. These are all the bosses in MGS Delta.

1. Ocelot
2. The Pain
3. The Fear
4. The End
5. The Fury
6. The Sorrow
7. Volgin
8. Shagohod
9. The Boss

Once you reach The Pain, you’re roughly one-third through the main story of Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater. The End marks the halfway point of the game, and things are nearly over once you finish off the Cobra Unit in the encounters with The Fury and The Sorrow.

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater isn’t a long game by any means, but it’s meant to be replayed so you can earn more titles and try out different playstyles. There’s also the returning Snake vs. Monkey minigame, which will add another hour or two to your total playtime. A multiplayer mode is on the way, too, so your time with MGS Delta isn’t over as soon as the credits roll.