Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is out now and Steam Deck Unsupported but SteamOS Compatible

By Liam Dawe - 28 Aug 2025 at 2:31 pm UTC

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater from KONAMI is a remake of the 2004 game METAL GEAR SOLID 3: SNAKE EATER. It's out now but it's Steam Deck Unsupported.

Valve checked it out and put up a notice that it just can't perform well enough on Steam Deck, not even by their sometimes strange standards. Not exactly surprising though, this is a full next-gen remake with a big visual bump and a lot of newer AAA games have really struggled on Steam Deck.

It is at least noted to be SteamOS Compatible though, and so it will run with Proton on Linux systems that are a bit more powerful from other handhelds to Desktop Linux. And, early reports on ProtonDB paint a reasonably positive picture for Desktop Linux.

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I'm not really up to date enough on Metal Gear Solid to go jumping into this one, so I won't be looking at it directly.

Are you playing it? What do you think so far?

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater | Release Date: 28th August 2025

Official links:

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Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Proton, Steam Deck, New Release, Steam, SteamOS | Apps: Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater

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Linux_Rocks 6 hours ago

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grahfgames 3 hours ago

I finished this game today and only had a few shader stutters in the beginning. But it was a smooth experience for me throughout. Running on a RTX 4080 Super at 5120x1440 - with an mgsdeltafix and was getting between 60-80fps for the majority of the experience on high detail and dlss set to balanced. I had seen footage of the game running on Windows with an AMD GPU it looked like a nightmare.

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Pyrate 2 hours ago

All this MGS talk is making me want to revisit MGS4 through RPCS3 as part of my franchise playthrough. Haven't played the game since the PS3 days, it'll be the first one in the series I'll have actual nostalgia for. Exciting emoji

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sarmad 25 minutes ago

Not surprising that it doesn't work on Steam Deck, consider that even on PS5 Pro (the Pro, not the regular PS5!) it can't keep up with 60fps and dips down to 40fps in many cases!! Who told those developers that barely visible extra graphical details are more important than the wildly visible fps dips?

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