Metro Exodus

The best FPS game I've ever played. Great story and amazing action.

One of, if not, the best story games I have ever played. An amazing ending to an amazing franchise. (Or is it?)

this game is like the other metro games 50% of the time on sale and when its on sale it is VERY cheap and also i managed to run this game (and play it) on a fucking celeron pc but somehow the sdk is harder to run than the actual game

I'd say, an 7.9/10:

I was surprised to hear that some people considered this the best entry in the Metro series so far. I have only played Last Light before this, and I was not as struck by it the same way Exodus did.

The way the game diegesis immerses you is fantastic. Your game objectives are written behind a map you have to hold; the mask you're wearing needs to be constantly refiltered in order to survive poisonous areas, and patched if it breaks; and the way in which you can use vehicles (though limited in comparison to other games) is so grounded in the first-person POV that it makes you feel like you are truly part of the world.

Some people complain about lacking the eerie atmosphere of the previous games (outside of some sections), but I think it's in the title: Exodus. This title is not only appropriate for the story (which I honestly think is great), but for the gameplay mechanics. The world might even see somewhat bright, but the game offers (a bit of a trope) that same question discussed in various games, What is humanity after the end of the world? This is the same question asked in The Walking Dead by Telltale, and The Last of Us by Naughty Dog. I think this entry might even match The Last of Us in its exploration of humanity (it's worse and best) during dystopian times.

I forget Last Light, so I am not sure if this question is asked as well there, but I remember that the supporting characters were lovable, but in Exodus all supporting characters have a deep charisma that I don't remember seeing in a while. It is not as if they have an exorbitant amount of dialogue that lets you understand them deeply, but through simple interactions you get to know a lot about them. Katya's and Stepan's story is a highlight for me; it shows how even when the world is ending, love is still possible. Commander Miller is another highlight, and I did not expect to like him as much as I did by the end of the story.

Of course, there's our love interest, Anna Miller. I am still debating whether or not she is a fully developed character. Nonetheless, I thought she was very lovable, though I did not cling to her the same way I did to Clementine in TWD, Ellie in TLoU, or Eliazabeth in Bioshock Infinite. By the end of the game, your efforts are dedicated to her, and I did not feel the same way (though the developers tried their best!) about saving her as I have with the other aforementioned characters.

That is mostly story and writing talk, which, again, this game shines in that department, but gameplay-wise this is such a treat. Bullets feel heavy and it really feels like you're doing major damage when using a shotgun, a sniper rifle, or the amazing Tihar (the pressurized gun that shoots pellets). The way you can access your backpack, put on a mask, recharge your lantern, and take out a lighter all add up to this deep diegesis that immerse you in every moment of the game.

I particularly liked the first half of the game that has the bigger areas to explore. I loved Volga and Caspian maps in particular (not sure the hate for Caspian). Taiga was underwhelming. The rest of the levels were more linear, so I won't say much on those since what I think makes this game shine is the ability to explore the world.

I even wish I could play it again, and the DLC. The in-game collectibles also add to the lore and world-building in a cool way. Unfortantely, as I get older I get less time to play games and I had to finish this game after many years in my library. The developers are working on the next game and I cannot fathom how they can outdo themselves after this one.

One of the best I have played. Amazing immersive experience. Loving the game play.

Highly recommended if you enjoy a great story with open levels and tight gameplay. Resource management wise I feel like it is looser than previous entries, and you have the option of going guns blazing instead of stealth in order to save ammo. Game is well paced, don't waste your time and doesn't overstay its welcome.

《Metro Exodus》

剧情比上两代长了超多，再加上DLC 直接让游戏时长多于20小时。而且游戏也变成开放世界，可以让你探索各个不同的地方，又能开车开船，而且在恐怖的部分真心加强了很多，大部分的时间都在心惊胆跳
(PS:大部分时间都在 Enchanted edition 玩哈哈哈）

Metro Exodus Review: A Beautiful FPS with a Few Bumps

Gameplay
Metro Exodus delivers a satisfying mix of stealth, survival, and action. Each encounter feels meaningful, and the crafting system and mechanics like gas mask maintenance add immersion without being tedious.

Controller Support
I played with a controller and had no issues. The controls are responsive and well-mapped, offering a smooth experience on both PC and console.

Visual Bugs
There are a few minor visual bugs, like texture pop-ins or lighting glitches, but nothing game-breaking.

Story
The story builds on the emotional weight of the previous games, offering a longer, more personal narrative. Themes of hope, survival, and humanity shine through, and the slower pace lets you connect with the world and characters.

Open World
The open-world areas are impressive, but the lack of direction at times can be confusing. I got lost early on, and better guidance would’ve been appreciated.

Graphics
Visually stunning, Metro Exodus boasts gorgeous lighting, textures, and weather effects. If your system can handle it, you're in for a visual treat.

Atmosphere
While not a horror game, the atmosphere is tense and creepy, especially in dark, abandoned places. The psychological tension works really well.

Characters
The cast is one of the game's strongest points. The crew of the Aurora train feels real, and their personal stories make them relatable and believable.

Music
The soundtrack is beautiful and emotional, enhancing the atmosphere without overwhelming the experience.

Length
Metro Exodus is longer than its predecessors, offering a more expansive adventure. While it can feel slow at times, it’s worth the journey.

Conclusion
Metro Exodus is a great game with a few visual bugs and some minor navigation issues in its open-world areas. Overall, it’s a stunning, atmospheric experience with memorable characters and a gripping story.

A very wonderful game, well-written story and characters, amazing graphics, great gameplay... play now!

Very nice game . Although there are some bugs in the shooting and movement, but the beauty of the graphics in the game and the story, as well as the terribly DLC, surpasses the original story .Worth the experience

The best campaign game I have ever played, period. Took my time to explore everything, the immersion, gameplay, graphics, everything about it is just perfect. I had the luxury of being able to understand russian so I played in full ranger hardcore with Russian Audio, really adds to the immersion. If you played any of the previous games, this one will knock them out of the park, this one was on another level. I will definitely be coming back to replay it many times. Such an amazing game. 20/10 game

Metro Exodus has such a creepy and dark atmosphere, very very great game that i totally into it, till i reach the "Dead City" where my flashlight had a bug that it wont charge. Been looking for a way to fix it but still people are complaining and having the same trouble since 3 years ago. too bad they didnt fix this bug

A hidden gem you'd wish you found earlier. From atmospheric, realistic gameplay to the anxiety horror that forces you out of your comfort zone in order to realize the beauty of the world can only be realized when you are not safe. This game is not just a game, it is an experience. You will appreciate this experience if you learn and explore about this world for it has so much to offer. 10/10

Excellent game. Great story, ambiance, mechanics and visuals. A true masterpiece. Love the post apocalyptic soviet style and it's great to know that it's a Ukrainian developed game, based on a book by a russian author who is critic of the war. All around awesome.

Just fantastic in every way. Could not recommend Exodus, and by extension the other two mainline Metro games, enough.

Is a serious contender for the best post-nuclear-apocalypse experience (this is coming from over a thousand hours combined in the Fallout series). Do yourself a favour; buy Exodus and enjoy this labour of love.

the best immersive post-apocalyptic game that i played. underrated masterpiece

I've always liked metro trilogies, and after playing metro exodus I like them even more!

one of the best games ive ever played, along with the other ones finished all of them and i would do it again. Absolutely beautiful graphics even today 10/10 would recommend!

4A games did a great job implementing the new mechanics and the open world aspect of the game. Not only that, but the graphics of this game are amazing even at lower quality. You can get the game for extremely cheap on sales including the DLC's which are also pretty great on their own.

My only issue with this game is the many bugs it has, with some being capable of causing your entire game to crash alongside your steam cloud corrupting your progress.

Even still, I definitely recommend playing this game despite it's faults. However i would stay away from completing all the achievements UNLESS you have the will to replay over and over again.

Completed this in my series X. A Post apocalypse game with a caring wife and friends, and a game where you get a different story based on your moral stand, 10/10. 2025 could never.

I played the Enhanced Edition, hence the lack of hours shown here, and man, what a game.

Both visually and emotionally beautiful, Exodus is a fantastic finish to the Metro series. A fulfilling end to Artyom's story, I really enjoyed the journey and the variety of landscapes you experience in Exodus.

For the majority of the time, very different from the first two, with open landscapes or lush vegetation. However, there are still very much "Metro" areas that feel very familiar, while the overall aesthetic of characters, weapons, and environments extend that Metro vibe to the new world.

The gameplay is slow and methodical, where taking your time, listening, and paying attention can be rewarded. I personally enjoyed the morality aspect of the game, and liked that I had to think about who I was taking out. Overall, a gritty experience with an emotionally fulfilling payoff that I'd recommend even without being familiar with the first two.

This game is, in my humble opinion, one of the best games ever produced and an absolute MUST-play!

At the time of writing, our world is in unrest, and the shadows of war loom darkly and ever more clearly above us. This game is not only a masterpiece of storytelling but also a stark reminder and warning to all of us.
It warns us about where greed, deception, warmongering idiocracies, and dictatorships lead humanity. If we do not learn compassion and come together as a human race instead of letting hate fill our hearts, this is the direction we are heading...

P.S.: As I write this comment, the Russian author of the Metro novels has been sentenced in absentia to eight years in a gulag for openly opposing the war in Ukraine. He fled and is now living in exile.
Many of the Ukrainian developers of this game also fled their country together with their families and are now hopefully working on the next Metro game. Many others all around the world have not had this opportunity.

To any of the developers, Dmitry, or the many people who had to flee your homeland and families reading this: Even though the train is on fire at the moment, I sincerely hope all of you will one day be able to return home safe and in peace.

I do recommend it as it is a great game, no doubt, but maaaaan... I had so many crashes and freezes.

In several encounters the game just freezes and you have to restart the game 5-10 times until you hit the lucky RNG where you have 10 seconds before freeze so you can have some small progress that you save. Or restart a whole chapter. I actually did not complete the Two Colonels DLC due to a perma black screen after the new years elec outage scene...

I really enjoyed the game but there should not be a possibility of the game completely locking me out of the content.

this was the best damn game ive ever played and i dont think anything else could impress me as much as this game did

games really great till you get the crossbow after that it comes back to being peak :steammocking:

I really enjoyed my time playing, even if I was terrified half the time. From it's freedom in how you deal with areas to the areas that genuinely felt unique to the multiple weapons and modifications you can make, it's great!
There are a few glitches but nothing that majorly effected my enjoyment. (except maybe some enemies that simply didn't want to be taken down with stealth though those were few and far between)

Like many others, I bought this game based on the strength of the earlier Metro games. In all honesty, I didn't have any expectations, aside from wanting to hear the main character between chapters. After going through the initial chapter, I was hooked. I was back in the Metro and it was beautiful. The action was on-point. The storytelling is always great. The DLC was a lot of fun.

Great story, great gameplay. Minor bug on iOS, game crashes when hitting a 'Q' key.
Definitely buying some DLC.

Fantastic, from start to finish.
Always changing enough to keep everything fresh; stuff like Guns, Enemies, Areas, Upgrades and Main villains. The Intro was very on rails, and does go on a little too long.
Soon as you are free to explore, they bring out the content and don't stop.
Mix of Fallout + STALKER + Metro, really great game.

10 times better copy of the fallout games

(still havent rescued Anna)
10 out of 10

Not worth the effort, changing video settings causes a crash every time. I'd be willing to put up with fixing and work arounds this if it were new.

Its a great game, particularly if you're a fan of the books, the other games, or want something sort of like half-life meets fallout. I like the game and would recommend it.

The "open world" is not as "open world" as i would have hoped, its still reasonably linear like the earlier games but there is more freedom to explore. Runs better in DX11 than DX12 for me, and some places had random crashes if raytracing was on.

i will say i wish there was a way to speed up conversations, as much background NPC chatter that adds to the story and depth CONSIDERABLY is *painfully* slow. Much like earlier games, but worse in some ways, the scenes where the main story is progressing, I dont think I've ever wished for a "speed up dialogue" option more. In order to get the "good ending", the requirements on killing/weapon use and lack of non-lethal ranged weapon is just irritating in the strictness of the demands. I don't want to have to stealth basically every human encounter, sometimes i just want to have some fun firefights or sneaky sniping! the difficulty in finding certain weapon parts, but only being able to store one of them in your bag (e.g. if you want to switch to another weapon even temporarily, or just play around with different combinations) is frustrating.

All that aside, some of which can be ignored if you're happy to not get the good ending, the game is great and the story (both in game and the original books) is fantastic. Is it perfect? no. but is it fun regardless and worth playing? yes.

Some weird gameplay sometimes and the game crashes unless you turn on vsync, but story was really good except some dumb choices/events that happened only because the story needed it to

One of the best post apocaliptic games out there. Hope they get another one out soon. The metro series is one of a kind and there is nothing that comes close to it!

For a "Metro" game is not good.
It a departure from what made all other previous games special.
This could had been called any other name, as it has little connection to the original games.
Some of the sections of the game crawl and drag, for the last level I just pushed to see the conclusion to the story, but honestly I found it tedious, boring and frustrating.
Game is mediocre.

It's a pretty good game some of the stuff is weird but if you are gonna get it wait for it to go on discount

2019 game of the year. we bought it for epic games, first bootup and install took so long it beat out installing cinematic mod and we joked about it taking years. computer at the time could barely handle the graphics, crashed after we entered the exterior stealth scene in moscow for the first time (that was a different comp though, i later tried it on this one, and it beat the "snow test"). now it's 2025 and i have a rtx 3050. (to be fair, this game was one of the reasons i had to upgrade, it practically burned out the old radeon on lowest.) graphics aside, this game is cool.

Very cool game. The story line is amazing, and really catching. Might be even one of the best story lines since the Fallout series.

Definitely worth the money, you will not regret it. At least, if you like a good and touching story in a game.

However, once completed the whole story, there isn't, in my opinion, not much to do anymore. Now it just sits in my library, probably waiting to be played in a couple of years again, from the start. Would love it either way, again.

Story i recomend. but mechanics and graphick is not so shiny but full of bugs. It need more resources but you don"t get nothing in the return!

Definitely the best Metro game so far (not played VR)

Great world
Great story
Great combat
Good performance (even in 1440p)

Just a must play for single player gamers

9/10

when i saw this game on sale for 2,99, i thought about buying it, but i was too late to buy it, and had to wait another month until it was on sale again. this time it went to 7,49, and i dont know why, but something told me to buy this game no matter what, and now im here, speechless over what i just experienced. it's an absolute gem that deserved whatever recognition it needed, its replayable, fun, immersive and beautiful. words can't describe the game but feelings can, i highly recommend buying this while it still exist, don't miss out, and don't let Artyom DIE.

this game is the most greatest and challenging and most dramatic game like i can feel it and i wish theres more like this or at least a new game update like metro exodus 2 this game is so beautiful.

the best game I've ever played so far. I like the gameplay, voiceovering, great cinematic pictures, the plot, the locations - everything is on a highest level. Tough decisions during tough times is not a joke, better to avoid both - situations and decisions.

Literally one of the best games i have ever play, i enjoyed every moment of this game.
The story was beautiful, my favourite part is that lots of characters have extra dialogue if you hang around and talk to them
10/10 👍

This game was awesome.

The only complaint I have is the desert level crashes a lot on Linux, to the point of basically being unplayable (Frequent crashes are a hit or miss. You either crash in the first 5 minutes for in 2 hours. No in between).

Love the whole Metro series for the awesome story telling and the Linux work. Great work 4A!

awesome story . awesome graphic . awesome gameplay .
Maybe if you don't have a good system you will face FPS drops. But overall this is a great game. I suggest you get the bundle of this franchise in the discounts and enjoy this franchise.

A rare gem and instant classic for me

I put off buying this for almost a whole year because I read reviews in which people complained about bugs and performance, but when it was recently on deep discount, I decided to just give it a try.
Before this, i had only really played FPS games like Destiny, Overwatch and Warzone etc, so it took me an hour or two before i stopped running in with guns blazing and repeatedly dying, but once i adjusted my expectations of what this game was and slowed down, i started to have an amazing time.

The characters are relatable, and the stories are interesting, unlike 90% of todays characters, who are obnoxious, sarcastic, or boring. Where in previous games im spamming the skip button on cutscenes, here i am quietly watching and listening.

The gun-play feels great, the guns are reasonably varied, although swapping out weapon mods never really felt like it made much of a change. The puzzles and objectives are easy to pick up on and solve without having to use google.
The whole game is subtly designed to guide you, often without your realising it.
The attention to detail was also noticed, putting many other more recent games to shame.

Highly recommend.

So, I think it's time to review this awesome game.

I bought Metro Exodus a LONG time ago but never really played it... Man, what a fool I was.

What a great game! I think it didn’t receive the proper recognition it deserves.
It's a beautiful game, with really enjoyable gameplay, nice mechanics, and great lore.

And in my personal opinion? It’s a GREAT ray-tracing game. The same way Cyberpunk is such a beautiful and bright game, Metro has those really dark vibes with amazing ray-traced shadows.

My only complaint, though? The Enhanced Edition doesn’t have cloud-based saves, even though the base version does.

Either way, it's a great game!

I was looking for a single-player FPS and ended up with a masterpiece!

I really enjoyed the first half of the game. There are some linear pieces, but for the most part it was pretty much open-world areas that you move between, which was perfect. However, the game becomes very linear in the second half. If you don't mind that, you'll probably enjoy the whole game. If you wanted a full open-world experience for the majority of the game, you'll be disappointed. Also, there is a morality system in the game. That's not a problem overall, a lot of games do it, but that's exactly why I'm tired of it. Just go out and have fun, and you may end up with a worse outcome. Go out and be a morally upstanding, conscientious citizen, just like you're already obligated to in real life, and hope you did it the right way to get rewarded. I'm genuinely very tired of it. If you're going to let players choose to be evil or good in a video game, let either route lead to satisfying rewards; don't punish people for wanting to have fun playing the bad guy, or even just an impulsive guy, in a video game.

The new sandbox concept for a Metro game worked well and the game is really fun.
Story is good, combat has new quality of life updates. Def recommend