Overview
The game is 2D run and gun game where each area in the stages has their own objectives ranging from defeat every single enemy,rescue a number of prisoner,survive wave long of enemy and complete a mission under a specific time.Every area that player go,a slug will accompany the player if the player equip it in their slugs.Up to 3 Slugs can be in an area though only 1 can participate at a time with 15 seconds cooldown for each Slugs changes.
Mission Mode
There is 12 areas with each of them having 10 stages and is inspired from past Metal Slug series for example the first levels are based on the First Stage of MS2/X. Each stage has it's own mission ranged from either kill all enemies, survive waves of enemies and defeat a boss. Each of the areas, there will be an icon letting player there will be bonus for using the specific bonus in that stages.
Versus Mode
This mode has the player compete with other players in 3 challenges (Versus, Time Attack and Boss Attack.) As player keep on doing this, player can get a reward for participating.