Last updated on December 17th, 2025 at 06:06 am
Metal Slug: Awakening-Season5 – Action Game Review
Metal Slug: Awakening-Season5 is a Action/Adventure game from HaoPlay Limited, first launched in 17th July 2024.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 16,666+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Metal Slug: Awakening-Season5 Stand Out
To the Stars: Total Assault – Version Update Highlights
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New Story: Strike in Space
After the Ice Danger Crisis, the Regular Army launches an initiative to eradicate the Konsar invasion threat. Meanwhile, the Concerians—whose alliance with the Modern Army has collapsed—have taken Marshal Modern hostage. During their retreat, they attacked Andrew Town, activating its underground propulsion system. Now, the entire town has transformed into a massive spacecraft hurling into space!
This should have been a perfect chance to pursue the Concerians, but a mysterious woman named Martina delivers dire news: the underground project was never completed. Andrew Town will lose power upon reaching a certain altitude and vanish into the cosmos… -
New Hero: Martina
Martina was born in Italy’s most chaotic slum. A tragic childhood forced her to witness the cruel side of the world from a young age, accelerating her mental maturity.
After losing her beloved sister, Martina—now with nothing—embarked on a long journey of wandering. Overwhelming grief and guilt plunged her into a vortex of suffering. She often hears her sister’s voice in her mind, believing her soul has never left. This obsession makes Martina emotionally volatile, manifesting a split personality under specific circumstances.
To fulfill a promise made to her sister, she joins Marco and the Regular Army in their space offensive, thwarting theConcerians Expeditionary Force’s plans and making remarkable contributions to Earth’s safety. -
New Weapon:
Dual-Wielding SMG
The first dual-wield weapon arrives! Based on the classic SMG design, it incorporates mechanisms inspired by Repeating Ballista System. When released, the twin guns auto-rotate and fire, unleashing a storm of high-penetration rounds that sweep the battlefield in all directions! -
New Gameplay:Abyssal Cruise
Embark on a space-themed adventure in Abyssal Cruise! Commanders will explore cosmic seas aboard the newest battleship, Lattice, accompanied by companions from Andrew Town. Experience unique combat challenges with cosmic rays and shifting gravitational fields. To the stars—total assault!
Join the interstellar journey now and reap rewards including Mythic Weapon Fragments, Hero Tokens, Mimetic Metal,Alloy Picks, and more!
Join our official communities for more information.
Discord: https://discord.gg/metalslugawakening
X: @MetalSlugAwaken
YouTube: @MetalSlug_Awakening
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This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Metal Slug: Awakening-Season5 is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 9th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Season 5 Starts
- New Character Debuts
- New Weapon Update
- Main Story Update
Download & Availability
Metal Slug: Awakening-Season5 is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Metal Slug: Awakening-Season5 on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This game takes us back to our childhood but man have we been missing out on this one! This blew away our expectations big time, the first animations and graphics are amazing and we love the story modes and all the other side of quests and game modes you can play. You will never get bored playing this game. To top it all off, you can also play online with other players which is super cool.
We highly recommend you download this game for sure.
This game was exactly like the ad on YouTube. Great.
This game is awesome, we cant express how glad we are to have found something so awesome, we use to play this when we were little but never saw an update on this game, it has a touch of classic and modern style so this is awesome.
"fair mode" in showdown, but some players use certain weapons that are more powerful than the other ones and kill you in seconds. "fair mode" in campaign, but the ai enemies take forever to defeat. It truly diminishes what should be an extremely fun game.
The feel of the game feels so good if you havent given it a try DO ITTTTTTTT.
This game is our favorite classic game from our childhood and this is the reason we wanted to try it. At first it was fun and brings your childhood memories buy at the same time it became more Pay to win where you have to spend enormous amounts of money in just one week span to grow and become stronger. We literally have seen average people spending more than $3000 every week. This is just insane. Im requesting for refund.
Please add controller support to metal slug awakening.
Please make game compatible with backbone thank you.
Rolled our 30 sapphire pick axes but just got an error, can this be helped.
Excelente juego. Muy entretenido. Us recuerda mucho mi infancia.
Ive played this maybe 100 days in a row. All the different gameplay options make it fun (theres basically 10 different styles of games, with look to collect the entire time). AND Ive yet to feel like the game has slowed (which typically happens with cell games when they try to pressure you into paying). We recommend ! It takes a moment to get used to the controls, but you get used to it in a day or so.
This Game is % Awesome. Yeah it charges for the better things but thats if you want to go that route. Theres so many modes that are fun. The Submarine Mini game is our personal Favorite. Wish it was on indefinitely but cant have it all. Needless to say its a fun game and everyone should give it a shot.
Overall, had a fun time playing it enjoy it don't pay for it, but we just do the free version. Nothing's perfect but this is decent. Played the game as a kid and really enjoying playing it now.
This would make the game way better for us.
Free , and really good graphics.
The games cool we just dont want to play it since we cant use our controller with it. Top tier game though.
Please make this game compatible to back bone controller. It would make this game more fun and easy control.
Cant stop playing this game. Graphics are great characters are even better.
We been playing for almost two weeks and this game really makes it hard to come back to on and on with how much food you lose with every time we gotta grind and grind and grind when Im already at a point where we havent bought anything and have overpowered weapons and higher leveled characters believe us we love the game and metal slug too but it just doesnt feel like a metal slug anymore when you have to wait like 12 or something hours to play again the storyline the fun exciting customization and the fun little games they have on the side that just also wastes your food like 20 then your also wasting 10 more on the storyline thats 30 each time not to mention you can raid the mini-games for more stuff thats just a waste in our opinion we would give it a 5 stars if you changed the mini-games algorithm.
Missed opportunity. Would be a lot better with controller support. Ill check back in the future to see if its been added. Wont be playing until then.
Un juego caro que si quieren buenas armas tienen que comprar gastar mucho , nunca te emparejan con un jugador de tu nivel despus de jugarlo un par de das todo es repetitivo nada nuevo.
Takes us back to the good old days.
Great game would like to play it in controller support.
Please add support for Backbone controller.
Great game but please add controller.
Awesome game just add controller support please.
Enjoying the game, and would love controller support.
Ive already uninstalled the game a few times, because Im trying to not waist all our time playing video games. But wow this game is fun. Addicted is an understatement. Great job developers.
Its the best game ever created.
Its a very good game. It brings us back to our childhood when we used to play in the arcades. Its a very fun game to play. We like it very much.
Game was updated and we didnt get a growth boost.. Its incredibly disheartening considering how hard we worked to level up. People lower level 40k beyond our power levels.
Been a fan since the arcade days even when they sent them to the laundry mats Ill always love metal slug keeps us young inside.
We think its awesome Im so happy this game exist it reminds us of our childhood we think they did a great job while also trying to keep it as old school as possible.
Great game, amazing level up system and so much to do after campaign game.
We use to play this on arcade and this game is top tier download it.
We dont give out reviews as much but this one is hella fun. Was going to give 4 because of no controller support, but youll get over it. Just try it out.
We would love to give it 5 stars if it was control connectivity other then that game is fun.
Great game so far, if only it had controller support :/.
Love this game wish it had backbone support.
Ive enjoyed the game a ton. Our main complaint is if you want to be even semi competitive in it then you have to drop a ton of money into it. We shouldnt have to drop $50 at an attempt to upgrade our Legendary weapon with its altered form. Besides that, really fun with lots to do.
We know it cost to have awesome weapons but it takes lots time and money. Make it little bit more enjoyable and easy way to get best weapons. Thanks , keep the good work.
Wish this game had controller support.
We have been playing since it was launched here in North America Server. At first we say, that this is an enjoyable game and we didnt mind spending money, but for the past 2 months, we have a bunch of issues that we raised on their support. At first they will have a generic reply, then they will reply to you and ask for proof for receipt and purchase order. But after that, they will keep you hanging and if you dont send them a follow up in 2-days they will just going to close the ticket without giving solutions and addressing the issue. We spent around $8k usd till last week, but last week after spending around $60 the Ruby that we bought are not going to our game account. Again like our previous inquiry to them, we have submitted the required documents and proof and still not getting the things that we paid for. Looks like this is CONTRA 2.0. Another failing Gotcha game after few months from its launching data coming from the same developers.
Overly repetitive. Game is riddled with bugs. Sad bc its a fun game and it was launched a year prior, shoulda been fixed then. Cant even compensate player base properly for all the bugs.
Good game. It just needs controller support. Very much needed. We like the direction of the game for sure.
Game is good, but we didnt hear any sound or music it may be error.
Can we pay for a version without all the extra icons without the grinding and extra currency you guys just want us to spend money on. Id literally pay for the game if it was a normal type game. Not a cash grab at any chance. Is this whats going to happen to every single video game? Its so wack.
Se pone lento en algunas partidas.
The game looks great but the only problem is that we cant play with our ps4 controller.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.14.0
- Size: 3,958.24 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, PT, ZH, ES
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Loot Boxes
- Developer: HaoPlay Limited
Last updated: 9th October 2025 | Genre: Action, Adventure | Developer: HaoPlay Limited