Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015)
0.2550Canon Score · ranked #81 all time
Aggregated from 5 of 17 authoritative lists, weighted by authority and adjusted for each list's scope and age. How scoring works →
About the game
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 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 follows
Why it ranks #81
Every list on which Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain appears, with its position as published.
| List | Authority | Position |
|---|---|---|
| Guardian 50 Best of 21st C (2019) | Editorial list | #12 / 50 |
| EDGE 100 Greatest (2017) | Critics' canon | #19 / 100 |
| Metacritic all-time (2026-07 snapshot) | Editorial list | #121 / 214 |
| gamesTM 200 Greatest (2018) | Editorial list | #165 / 200 |
| Polygon 500 Best (2017) | Critics' canon | #208 / 500 |