Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater
DeveloperKonami Digital Entertainment
PublisherKonami
Directors
  • Yota Tsutsumizaki
  • Yuji Korekado
  • Yu Sahara
Producers
  • Noriaki Okamura
  • Yuji Korekado
ProgrammerRyuichiro Okamoto
ArtistSatoshi Takemura
ComposerNaoki Nakashima
SeriesMetal Gear
EngineUnreal Engine 5
Platforms
ReleaseAugust 28, 2025
GenresAction-adventure, stealth
ModeSingle-player

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is a 2025 action-adventure stealth game developed and published by Konami. It is a remake of the 2004 game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the fifth main entry in the Metal Gear franchise and the first chronological game overall. Set in 1964, the game follows a FOX operative codenamed Naked Snake, who must rescue a prominent Soviet rocket scientist and sabotage the Soviet nuclear superweapon Shagohod, while clearing the United States from Soviet suspicion amid Cold War tensions by confronting his former mentor, The Boss, who has defected to the Soviets.

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is the first major entry in the Metal Gear franchise since the release of Metal Gear Survive in 2018, when Konami stopped publishing AAA third-party console games in favor of budget and mobile games. Their internal studio, Konami Digital Entertainment, developed the game, with Metal Gear Survive and Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (2006) producer Noriaki Okamura and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015) creative producer Yuji Korekado supervising the project, and with Singaporean studio Virtuos contributing additional development. The game was announced in May 2023. Snake Eater was chosen to be remade over other entries due to its status as an origin story for the franchise and its pivotal characters. The game's title emerged from the development team's desires to faithfully reproduce Snake Eater's gameplay and story with modern graphics and enhancements, but without significant deviations to its original structure.

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on August 28, 2025, to generally positive reviews from critics. It sold over one million units within the first 24 hours of release.