Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes is available for download on Steam, Valve's game distribution service, as of today. The game went live several hours ago, and is priced at $13.39. The original price is $19.99, so it's unclear whether the price tag will revert to that number at some point.

This is significant because Ground Zeroes was initially released for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4, with PC gamers left out in the cold. The game was launched for consoles back on March 18 here in the states. So, it took nine months after Ground Zeroes was released for the game to come to Windows.

Ground Zeroes is an important game in the Metal Gear Solid story, as it serves as a prologue to Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, which will be released next year.

So far, Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes is getting plenty of positive feedback on Steam. One Steam user says that the game "Great PC port, it runs very well on my PC even though I don't think it meets the requirements." If true, that's atypical of most console games that get ported to the PC.

A majority of such titles do not provide a comparable experience on computers compared to their console-based counterparts. A prime example is the original Dark Souls, which was not well received once a PC version of the game was released.

Takeshi Miyazoe, the producer of Dark Souls II had this to say about the development of the original Dark Souls port to the PC.

"This is going to sound bad but our main priority was to get the game onto the PC as fast as possible, because people wanted it on the PC. We did know there were PC-specific features like key-mapping and use of the mouse and keyboard, high resolution and higher frame rate, stuff like that, but... It's not that we ignored it, but it would have taken too much time for us to implement it, test it and get it up to the level people expected."

It's good to see that there was more care and effort devoted to the development of Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes' PC version. So far, so good. However, bugs can come up later in the game, so keep that in mind in case you're wary of console to PC ports.

You can check out Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes on Steam here.