This Metal Gear Solid fan remake looks amazing and you can play it now

A new Metal Gear Solid fan remake is now available to download, giving PC players a fresh take on selected parts of Konami’s original stealth game. It’s not a complete remake, and it doesn’t pretend to be. Instead, developer Maxime Thomas Le Deore has focused on a smaller collection of playable content built in Unity, including a tutorial, two recreated levels and the boss fights from the original game. That makes this more than a simple graphics showcase. You can actually play it. The project includes working gameplay systems alongside the recreated environments, so players can get a feel for how parts of Metal Gear Solid translate into a newer engine. Anyone expecting the whole campaign will need to adjust those expectations, though. This is a compact fan project, not a scene-for-scene rebuild of the full game.

It’s a smaller remake with a clear focus

The developer hasn’t attempted to recreate every corridor, cutscene and story sequence from Metal Gear Solid. Instead, the remake concentrates on a handful of areas that show off its gameplay and technical work.

There’s a tutorial section to get players familiar with the controls, followed by two recreated levels from the original game. The boss fights are also included, which gives the project considerably more variety than you’d get from a basic walk-through demo. That’s an important difference.

A lot of fan remakes stop at rebuilding a recognisable location with updated lighting and higher-detail assets. They can look impressive, but there’s often very little to actually do. This project takes a different approach by including playable mechanics and enemy encounters, giving it the structure of a small game rather than an interactive showroom. Still, it’s worth being clear about what you’re getting. You won’t be playing Metal Gear Solid from beginning to end. Large parts of the original campaign aren’t here.

The remake runs on Unity

The choice of engine is also interesting. While many modern fan projects use Unreal Engine 5, this Metal Gear Solid remake has been built with Unity. That gives it a different technical foundation from the many Unreal-powered remake videos that regularly appear online. Here, Unity handles the recreated environments, character interactions, combat systems and other gameplay elements needed to turn the project into something you can properly play.

There isn’t much detailed information available about graphics settings or PC requirements, so don’t expect the sort of technical breakdown you’d normally get with a commercial release. This is still an independently developed fan project. That means performance may depend heavily on the hardware you’re using and how polished the current build is.

What you can actually play

The project’s content is fairly straightforward. You start with a tutorial area that introduces the remake’s controls and core mechanics. From there, you can play through two levels based on locations from the original Metal Gear Solid. These provide the main stealth and exploration sections. Then there are the bosses.

Including the original game’s boss encounters gives the project much more to work with mechanically. Boss fights need their own behaviours, attack patterns and scripting, so they’re more involved than simply rebuilding a room or corridor.

They also help show how far the developer has taken the remake’s systems. Again, this doesn’t turn the project into a full Metal Gear Solid replacement. The campaign structure, cinematic sequences and many connecting areas from the original aren’t included. Think of it as a focused selection of playable sections rather than a complete remake.

The fan remake is available now

The Metal Gear Solid Unity fan remake can currently be downloaded as a playable build. It isn’t being distributed like a normal commercial PC release, so availability could change over time. The project reportedly uses content created specifically for the remake rather than directly pulling assets from released Metal Gear Solid games. From a development point of view, that means the environments and other visual elements have been rebuilt for this version instead of simply being copied across.

For players, though, the main question is much simpler: what’s actually here? Right now, the answer is a tutorial, two recreated levels, working gameplay mechanics and the original boss encounters, all running inside Unity. It’s not the entire Metal Gear Solid campaign, and there’s no reason to treat it as one. But it is playable. For anyone curious about how selected parts of the original Metal Gear Solid work when rebuilt in a modern engine, this fan remake offers a fairly direct way to find out.

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It’s a smaller remake with a clear focus

The remake runs on Unity

What you can actually play

The fan remake is available now

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