Metal Gear Solid Delta: all 63 areas, indexed in story order

Metal Gear Solid Delta keeps the original's area structure, which means the game is a chain of small named boxes rather than a map. That is good news for completion, because every collectible belongs to exactly one named area, and the area name is printed on screen when you enter it.

It is bad news for a first playthrough, because several of those areas are gone for good once the story moves on.

We filmed 64 collectible routes across 63 areas. This page puts them in the order the game gives them to you, marks the revisits, and flags the points after which an area is closed.

Read the area name on screen first

Every route below is named for the on-screen area title, in the game's own spelling. If you are stuck, look at the top of your screen, then find that exact string here. Several areas differ by one word only, and the difference matters:

• Groznyj Grad Weapons Lab: East Wing and West Wing Corridor are separate areas with separate contents.
• Krasnogorje Mountaintop, Krasnogorje Mountaintop: Behind Ruins and Krasnogorje Mountaintop Ruins are three areas, not one area described three ways.
• Ponizovje South and Ponizovje South (Revisit) hold different things.

Virtuous Mission

The opening. Everything here is available again later in the same geography, so a missed pickup in this stretch is recoverable.

#	Area
1	Dremuchij South
2	Dremuchij Swampland
3	Dremuchij North
4	Dolinovodno
5	Rassvet

Operation Snake Eater: the night pass

The same five areas at night, with different placements and different guard routes. The game does not tell you these count separately.

#	Area
6	Dremuchij South (Night)
7	Dremuchij Swampland (Night)
8	Dremuchij North (Night)
9	Dolinovodno (Night)
10	Rassvet (Night)

This is the single most common way to end a run short. People sweep the jungle in the Virtuous Mission, remember doing it, and never sweep it again after the drop.

Into the jungle proper

#	Area
11	Dremuchij East
12	Chyornyj Prud
13	Bolshaya Past South
14	Bolshaya Past Base, Past Crevice
15	Chyornaya Peschera Cave Entrance
16	Chyornaya Peschera Cave
17	Chyornaya Peschera Cave Branch

The three Chyornaya Peschera areas are the first place the naming trips people up. Entrance, Cave and Cave Branch are three sweeps.

Ponizovje and Graniny Gorki

#	Area
18	Ponizovje South
19	Ponizovje West
20	Ponizovje Warehouse Exterior
21	Ponizovje Warehouse
22	Graniny Gorki South
23	Graniny Gorki Exterior: Outside Walls
24	Graniny Gorki Exterior: Inside Walls
25	Graniny Gorki Lab 1F
26	Graniny Gorki Lab 2F
27	Graniny Gorki Lab B1 East
28	Graniny Gorki Lab B1 West
29	Ponizovje South (Revisit)

Graniny Gorki Lab is the hardest stretch to return to cleanly. Four interior areas, and the alert state you leave behind follows you between them. Sweep it while you still have the run of the building.

Svyatogornyj and Sokrovenno

#	Area
30	Svyatogornyj South
31	Svyatogornyj West
32	Svyatogornyj East
33	Sokrovenno South
34	Sokrovenno North
35	Sokrovenno West

Sokrovenno is the sniper forest. Sweeping it under fire is miserable, so deal with the fight first and collect afterwards.

Krasnogorje

#	Area
36	Krasnogorje Tunnel
37	Krasnogorje Mountain Base
38	Krasnogorje Mountainside
39	Krasnogorje Mountaintop
40	Krasnogorje Mountaintop: Behind Ruins
41	Krasnogorje Mountaintop Ruins

Six areas with four near-identical names. Read the on-screen title before you decide you have already done one of these.

Groznyj Grad

The largest single block in the game, and the one where a completion run either holds together or falls apart.

#	Area
42	Groznyj Grad Underground Tunnel
43	Groznyj Grad Southwest
44	Groznyj Grad Southeast
45	Groznyj Grad Northwest
46	Groznyj Grad Northeast
47	Groznyj Grad
48	Groznyj Grad Torture Room
49	Groznyj Grad Torture Room (Revisit)
50	Groznyj Grad Weapons Lab: East Wing
51	Groznyj Grad Weapons Lab: West Wing Corridor
52	Groznyj Grad Weapons Lab Main Wing
53	Groznyj Grad Runway South
54	Groznyj Grad Runway, both sections
55	Groznyj Grad Rail Bridge
56	Groznyj Grad Rail Bridge North

The Torture Room appears twice for a reason. The first visit and the revisit are different sweeps, and the first one is easy to skip entirely.

The two boss encounters in this block, Volgin and the Shagohod, each have their own route, because both arenas hold pickups that are unavailable before or after the fight.

Tikhogornyj through the end

#	Area
57	Tikhogornyj
58	Tikhogornyj Behind the Waterfall
59	Zaozyorje West
60	Zaozyorje East
61	Lazorevo South
62	Lazorevo North
63	Rokovoj Bereg

Behind the Waterfall is the classic miss. It reads as scenery, and the game never suggests you can walk through it.

Rokovoj Bereg is the last area in the game. Anything you have not swept by the time you reach it stays unswept on that save.

The route that finishes in one playthrough

1. Sweep the Virtuous Mission jungle, knowing you will do it again.
2. Sweep it again at night after the drop. Areas 6 to 10 are the ones people lose.
3. Do Graniny Gorki Lab in one pass, before the building turns hostile.
4. Clear Sokrovenno's fight first, then walk it.
5. Read every Krasnogorje area title on screen. Six areas, four similar names.
6. Treat Groznyj Grad as fifteen sweeps, including both Torture Room visits and both boss arenas.
7. Walk through the Tikhogornyj waterfall.

Every area above has its own route video with the area name in the title, so you can find the exact box you are standing in rather than scrubbing a four-hour compilation.