Metro Exodus

The entire trilogy offers one of the best single-player FPS experiences out there. Exodus teaches you that good actions over time can save your life in the end. If you haven’t played it yet, I’m honestly not sure what you’re waiting for. While Exodus can be played as a standalone, starting with 2033 will give you the complete story experience.

First and formost the game was amazing. Enjoyed every nook of it and more. Though what I must say surprised me the most was that I managed to play it entirely on a MacBook Air which for those who know will even struggle to Minecraft in the lowest setting. It did overheat some times and there were the occasional crash but still the fact that I managed to finish it ON A MACBOOK should be already a selling point on how well its optimised.

Metro Exodus is a dystopian first person shooter. This is the third game from the Metro series which makes for a good story spanning a year trying to find solace in the wilderness. The 4A team has demonstrated absolutely great workmanship with an excellent story line and judicious cutscenes which help flesh out the experience. The open world nature makes Metro Exodus one of the greatest games out there. The graphic quality of the game is clearly detailed even on UHD displays. I played this on my Dell Precision 3480 with Intel Xe Arc graphics and RTX A500 graphics.

100x better version of stalker heart of chornobyl

nice graphics & atmosphere and gameplay really beautiful game worth play at least once in life <3 :*

Reviewing (mostly) every game (or DLC) in my library, part 193: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (10/10) [i]Metro Exodus[/i] is one of the most immersive, emotionally resonant, and quietly beautiful games I’ve ever played. It’s not just about survival—it’s about connection, memory, hope, and the cost of trying to live in a ruined world. This game hit me hard. I was totally absorbed by it, from the first step into the frozen Volga to the final cutscene on the Aurora. I think about it all the time. It’s a game about holding onto hope when everything seems lost—about choosing kindness even when it’s easier to pull the trigger. It’s also just damn fun to play. 🚂 [b] Pros:[/b] [list] [*] Gunplay that hits like a brick. Every weapon in [i]Metro Exodus[/i] feels handmade, gritty, and powerful. There’s real heft to every shot—guns recoil heavily, reload animations are slow and deliberate, and jamming mid-fight because your gun is filthy? Panic-inducing. This isn’t flashy, cinematic combat—it’s messy and dangerous. Every shot feels like a choice. There's also a great selection, so you can mix and match as you please. [*] Great immersion. You don’t just open a map. You pull it out. You manually take out your map, shine your flashlight, wipe your gas mask, and charge your battery. There’s no floating HUD, just you and what’s in your hands. The act of surviving is grounded in physical motion, and it pulls you deeper into the world than most games even attempt. [*] Crafting and gear systems that are tactile and personal. Upgrading and maintaining your gear is never busywork. You clean your weapons to stop them from jamming. You build silencers, scopes, magazines. Everything you do—every bolt scavenged, every chemical looted—feeds back into the survival loop. Your weapons are yours because you’ve kept them alive. [*] Semi-open world hubs that respect your time. Each level is a semi-open space filled with secrets, side missions, and environmental storytelling. But unlike other open-world games, they aren’t bloated. Exploration feels purposeful. There’s always a reason to stray off the path. Maybe you hear someone screaming, or see a church in the distance, or stumble on an abandoned shack. It’s the kind of exploration that rewards curiosity without overwhelming you. [*] Dust motes, dynamic weather, and real-time day-night cycles create a living world. Watching dust float in shafts of sunlight inside a ruined train car. Rain battering your gas mask as lightning flashes. Fog rolling in across a swamp. These aren’t just pretty effects; they feel like part of the story. They create mood, tension, and wonder all at once. [*] The train journey format gives the game emotional momentum. You’re not just completing missions; you’re moving across the continent with people you care about. The train becomes home. Each new chapter is a new season, a new region, and a new challenge. This structure turns [i]Metro Exodus[/i] into a real journey, one that grows and changes alongside you and your companions. [*] The Aurora crew feels like a real, ragtag family. They joke. They smoke. They fall in love. They get scared. You can talk to them between missions, sit beside them around the campfire, listen to guitar music, or just exist in the quiet. It’s rare for a game to give you these moments of stillness, where nothing’s happening, but everything is. These people matter, and losing even one of them hits hard. [*] Anna and Artyom’s relationship is deeply human. There’s no melodrama here. Just love, worry, affection, and trust. The way Anna gently teases you, the way she pushes you to open up, the way she quietly panics when you’re in danger ... it’s a believable, warm relationship that anchors the whole narrative. [*] Stealth is tense and satisfying. Sneaking past bandits at night with just a throwing knife and your flashlight off is pure adrenaline. You can knock enemies out, avoid detection, and even avoid killing, and the game rewards that. It’s not just about surviving. It’s about surviving your way. [*] Moral choices that are subtle but meaningful. There’s no morality meter. But the game remembers. Did you spare a guard who surrendered? Did you help a starving family? Did you kill everyone in a camp, or just knock them out? These decisions ripple through the story and help determine which ending you get. The game never calls attention to it, but it sees you. [*] Environmental storytelling done right. This game tells its story through corpses, broken radios, blood trails, empty homes, and handwritten notes. There’s almost always something worth finding—and often, it's not loot. It’s context. You slowly piece together what happened in these places, and some of those mini-stories hit harder than entire questlines in other games. [*] The visual design is breathtaking. From golden sunsets in the desert to eerie fog in the forest, this game constantly stuns. It’s not just good graphics, but atmosphere. You feel the cold. You feel the isolation. But you also feel the hope when you step outside and see beauty in this broken world. [*] The soundtrack lingers in your soul. Melancholic strings. Sparse piano. Ambient sounds that set your nerves on edge. The score knows when to break your heart and when to disappear entirely. It’s perfect. [*] The ending absolutely shattered me. No spoilers, but it’s one of the most honest, bittersweet, and earned conclusions I’ve seen in any game. It understands what it’s like to try, to sacrifice, and to hope. Ngl, I cried for a bit. And I’d do it again! [/list] 🧷 [b] Cons:[/b] [list] [*] Mac performance is tricky. For 23 hours, life was great. But all of a sudden, I couldn’t even get past the loading screen on Mac without manually launching the game via .exe. This workaround technically worked, but it broke Steam achievement tracking and didn’t log the rest of my playtime. I also couldn't go NG+ because of it. [*] Artyom’s silence is inconsistent and awkward. He narrates loading screens. He clearly has a voice. But in every conversation? He’s completely silent. It’s jarring—especially in deeply emotional moments where someone is pleading with him, crying, yelling, or laughing, and he just… stares. It creates emotional distance, and I wish he’d said just a few words now and then to bring scenes fully to life. [*] On launch, there were lots of bugs, but I didn't encounter anymore through my playthrough. Still, buyer beware. There is some jank with movement. [/list]

Great gameplay! Except there are some bugs but overall, peak game!

Great game as always. I prefer more Last Light and Metro 2033 Redux since they have the better guns and movement, but Exodus has a longer, even better story, lasts almost as these two combined. I recommend the game but it should be better than the previous two parts by a mile.

Very nice game, good story but only i wish i could have more chapters to play.

Makes Fallout 3 look like child's play... I wanna be like a Bandit from Borderlands 2... More Guns More Guns More Guns!!!!!

Crashes every 20 minutes Edit: After changing the settings the game was working fine, without any lag.

Would be nice to play the game if it wasn't unplayable. Would recommend playing Metro EX on other platforms.

No native controller support. Literally unplayable on a controller even with steam input, the game switches constantly between keyboard and controller input, its very buggy.

Just when I thought the chapter will end there, there was a twist that makes us...Ah, just try it yourself. I Finally finished this game after my PSN got hacked and then I bought it again on PC. Great Game!

Amazing game just I recommend you to actually pay attention to the plot and not just be half awake during it

Really atmospheric game. Runs fine on M1 mac despite a few crashes here and there, minor annoyance because of the auto-save system.

Ця гра вразила мене. Більш нереальна атмосфера персонажів, взаємодія з ними, моменти від яких приємні та моторошні. Почну з ігрового процесу, він чудовий, все продумано до найдрібніших деталей: заряджання, прокачування зброї, її чищення, заряджання ліхтарика, розбиття скла протигаза, все доведено до досконалості з попередніх частин. Сюжет багатогранний, але місія одна, знайти місце, дане життю на поверхні, але паралельно і в кожному розділі робити щось для досягнення мети розділу та загального сюжету. Найсильнішим розділом для мене був Новосибірськ. Від складності переміщення героя від радіації, моментів з галюцинаціями від неї, до порятунку його дружини Анни, що привело нашого героя до кінця, всі ці моменти передаються гравцеві, розуміючи, як важко пройти через все це, бачачи, як керівництво не встигло евакуювати людей і вся ця кількість смертей дуже велика, додавання двох полковників розкрило все, що було до цього часу, ідеальний показ усього цього. Історія Сема, також у своєму цікавому доповненні, показує, що дії Артема, не здаючись, йдучи до своєї мети, надихнули його на героїчні вчинки, щоб повернутися до свого, рідного дому. Щодо кінцівок, перша хороша, сумна, але друга, яка погана, для мене стала просто легендарною, всі померлі герої старого Метро 2033 показали, що їхній поїзд існує в цьому потойбічному світі і все це для них, як вічність, яка переслідуватиме їх вічно. Було дуже несподівано побачити цих героїв. рейтинг 10000000/10 -------- This game impressed me. The more unreal atmosphere of the characters, the interaction with them, the moments from which are pleasant and creepy. I'll start with the gameplay, it's gorgeous, everything is thought out to the smallest detail, loading, pumping weapons, cleaning them, charging the flashlight, breaking the glass of the gas mask, everything is brought to perfection from the previous parts. The plot is multifaceted, but the mission is one, to find a place given to life on the surface, but parallel and in each chapter, do something to achieve the goal of the chapter and the overall plot. The most powerful chapter for me was Novosibirsk. From the difficulty of moving the hero from radiation, moments with hallucinations from it, and saving his wife Anna, led our hero to the end, all these moments are transmitted to the player, understanding how difficult it is to go through all this, seeing how the leadership did not have time to evacuate people and all this number of deaths is very large, the addition of two colonels revealed everything that was up to this time, the perfect showing of all this. Sam's story, also in its own interesting addition, showing that Artem's actions, not giving up, going towards his goal, inspired him to his heroic deeds in order to return to his, his native home. about the endings, the first is good, sad, but the second, which is bad, for me became simply legendary, all the deceased heroes of the old Metro 2033 showed that their train exists in this afterlife and all this for them, like eternity, which will haunt them forever. It was very unexpected to see these heroes. rating 10000000/10

Absolutely stunning game that I would recommend to anyone wanting a post apocalyptic experience. Action, survival, customization , horror, gameplay, story. This game has everything.

the game is really engaging but it crashes a lot in the area of with swamps

(SPOILER maybe?) it gave me depression. BUT HEY! i get to play again just to get the good ending :) this is peak game fr fr

A great pick for realistic survival in a post apocalypse.

Great story, solid game play, runs clean, and has decent graphics. Got it on sale and very happy with the purchase. Enjoyed the game a lot.

Really like the game, but there are many annoying bugs & random crashes

Glad never buy Stalker 2, this Metro game has always been much more better than Stalker 2. stalker 2 use Unreal Engine 5 and heard a lot of complain about Stalker 2 being un-optimized. Unreal Engine suck.

100% the game but still cant have segs with miller. Anna is to clingy and makes me uncomfortable.

Metro Exodus is a rare kind of game, the kind that dares to evolve a series without losing its soul. Where the original Metro 2033 and Last Light thrived on the tension of dark tunnels and claustrophobic survival, Exodus opens the world up without ever losing that pressure. It’s still bleak. Still dangerous. Still coated in dust and dread. But now it breathes. And what you get is one of the most emotionally rich, mechanically satisfying, and visually stunning journeys in modern gaming. The writing doesn’t shout, it trusts you to listen. The characters aboard the Aurora feel lived-in, believable, flawed. And your connection to them builds not just through dramatic story beats, but in the quiet moments: a shared smoke break, a guitar strum, a silent glance at the horizon. Combat is tense. Resources matter. Guns jam. Light and shadow are part of the gameplay, not just set dressing. And on PC, it looks incredible, one of the few games that genuinely earns the “next-gen” feel, even years after release. I love this game so much I bought it twice, once on PS5, again on Steam. And I’d do it again. Metro Exodus isn’t just one of the best shooters of the past decade. It’s one of the best stories. Period.

Great game! There are some stupid game mechanics that I don't like. Like Artem can't jump on 1cm rock, or ladder "E" mechanics and overall movement mechanics are annoying and suck.

loved the game starting from the gameplay, the post apocalyptic atmosphere, i liked the graphics of the game, the voice and character writeing was good too. The loot, weapon customisation, backpack system was great. The story i really liked the main story and loved both the dlcs (especially the sam story). there were things that i didnt like so much was that Artyom did not had any voiceover in the game(he only had voice-over during the loading screen. Although the dlcs fixed this i really liked that. I personally faced two bugs first was the game crash bug during the desert storm and one map glitch while driving the car. Overall i loved it

Very good story, probably top 5 post apocalyptic game out there.

Fantastic, detailed world. Exciting. Deeply immersive.

One of my favorite games of all time. Cool monster thingies. good story. good everything. glitches sucked tho

Rich story and awesome single player experience :) Thumbs Up

I bought this game after a lot of hesitation after reading about the lingering performance issues. Well, they persist. Exodus is an absolutely worthy continuation of the original games. While much different in many aspects, it still keeps its unique Metro feel while offering more freedom to explore the world and expanding on world-building. Unlike the predominantly linear game play of previous instalments, Exodus adopts a semi-open world approach. The journey takes us beyond Moscow's metro system by train, stopping at diverse, explorable locations rich with scavenging opportunities. Core game play mechanics remain familiar but feature valuable improvements. The purchasing system for equipment and consumables has been replaced with crafting mechanics and resource management. Weapon modifications can now be made anywhere, with discovered upgrades permanently added to your collection for use whenever needed. Narratively, this was my favourite entry in the trilogy. While I enjoyed the previous story-lines, I felt more connected to Exodus's community-building elements and human-centred journey compared to the metro-focused plot or mutant-heavy narratives of the first two games.

Great game overall, good story and good game mechanics. The main issue is constant game freezing and crashing.It occurs randomly and only solution is switching back to direct x 11 but even then the game still freezes some times and almost every time i had to restart my PC as it didn't even allow me to open task manager to force it close. What's the use of great story line when its execution will just beg u to pray game doesn't crashes when entering a new area. Hope the Devs pass a patch addressing it but it seems highly unlikely especially after 6 years.

The Metro series, I mean all of them is a must play game series, unless you don`t like jump scares and spooky tales. 10/10 story as well.

This game is really fun. Im only up to the volga but the games exploration and gunplay is good so far.

Simply great game. Pros: -Combat and controls are well ironed out. -The world while some what linear is very open. -The world is a gorgeous post apocalyptic waste land. A game truly as pretty as you want it to be. A world you can truly get lost in. -The writing is brilliant they do a great job of crafting characters you actually care about. Cons: -My one and only big con of this game is the auto save system. It sometimes screws you over royally. Sometimes it will save as you run out of filters placing you in a death loop forcing you to use an earlier checkpoint/save. I would one hundred percent recommend this masterpiece.

great game, excellent story and perfect culmination to Artyom's story. Loved the DLC - Sam's Story, happy he got two great endings too.

I like the story. Sadly, I got the bad ending but still, very worth it for 4 bucks.

this game made me hate open world game and love semi-open world and i think the russian VO is better than the english for this game.

i love / hate this game it was good in all the right spots but left me feeling like reddead 2 again and now i just want everything to stop around me so i can recover but it wont and now iam sad 9/10 it broke my heart again

This is an amazing game that's extremely immersive and well designed, fantastic story that will have you in tears, and well optimized for most modern graphics cards.

very awesome post apocalyptic game, its not as open world as other games in the genre like the fallout series or some zombie games, however it is still very good and super unique as it tells the story from russia. it does suck that the game has pretty much no modding community and the replayability is very lacking but playing it for the first time is super fun. i would highly recommend metro exodus. ideally you should play the first two metro games before exodus but i wouldnt say it is mandatory to do so

Frickin amazing, easily a staple single player experience.

I have been replaying the Metro series over these past two weeks and I have reached my verdict. Metro 2033 if my favourite overall, last light has the best endings to me and this one... It has the best DLC but I can never say its my close to the feelings I feel to the other two. Exodus is riddled with small issues, from Graphical bugs and instability to the story and characters. I felt that the cast was weaker in this game compared to previous titles, the cast seem more reactive than proactive. The Dialogue felt it was talking down to me at times. I did feel that the good and bad actions were both more obvious and grounded than in previous titles. Both endings I felt were lacking in a conclusion to me but the bad ending is kind of confusing to me. The stealth is really hit or miss. Enemies will see you through walls and some object just do not work as cover, however you are able to hide behind enemies from others line of sight. Gun-play is the same as its always been, really good and loud. Difficulty wise the game is both the hardest and easiest of the games, there are no last stand moments that can get you killed easily and due to on the go customisation of weapons you can face any challenge with optimal builds for the encounter. In saying that the hardest difficulty is harder due to the poor steal and cover being meaningless unless its a solid wall. I felt the game was also the most boring due to the constant stand around and talk moments, some of which can last up to 5 min. The only thing I think was at its best was the OST, some of the most impactful tracks are i this game. One of these said tracks you hear multiple times in the game and its a real heart wrencher at the ending of the base game. Design wise, I felt this game was worse than the other two games. The Graphical differences and the smoothing of everything somehow made it look worse. Overall is a really good game but I still thing the first two were more solid 8.5/10 - "Time for the enhanced edition for the achievement gods"

Metro Game is always one top quality environment specific, tactics specific game. Story to survive in such world where bandits, creatures, anomalies, many guns with different specs. And specially this is type of Open world too as you have a Car to travel as per you. Environment Part is the best you can see in any games, how map changes from Lake side to deserts then desert area to Forest one. It's amazing. I have played all Metro parts and i can confirm if you like Single Player game where have control on many things in environment then you will be the fan of this Series. I am hoping to see more of these. Shoutout to all Developers, 3D artists, Animators, Platform and Voice artists for giving such beautiful presentation of their knowledge and Art. Thanks you all.

世界观设定有趣，游戏里关于装备的的元素和机制很多，是我喜欢的类型。就是感觉第一人称视角对我来说有点眩晕🤣

Metro exodus is like a graphic's showcase with a hint of stalker. the story which i havent even half completed is done well (so far). it has mid gunplay with many other "meh" parts to the game. its a cool and very used idea, just not completely polished 6/10

One of the greatest—if not the greatest—series of post-apocalyptic horror games I’ve ever played. Truly amazing.