Action · November 7, 2024

Metro Awakening (2024)

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Metro Awakening is a story-driven first person adventure built exclusively for VR that blends atmospheric exploration, stealth and combat in the most immersive Metro experience yet. The year is 2028 The survivors of nuclear Armageddon cling to existence in the buried subways of the Moscow Metro – civilization’s last refuge and tomb, where ghosts and spirits haunt the living in this man-made purgatory. You are Serdar, a doctor braving the darkness, crippling radiation and deadly threats of the Metro in the search for your wife and the medication she so desperately needs. As your courage and sanity are pushed to the limit you must learn to walk the line between life and death, the spirit and the material world, and awaken the being you will become… Features: Lose yourself in a journey of spiritual awakening in this chilling, supernatural origins story from Metro creator Dmitry Glukhovsky Experience Metro’s tense, heart-pounding gameplay in VR for the first time as you put on your mask, ammo and filters run low and your torchlight flickers and dies in the darkness Wield a signature arsenal of hand-made weapons, don your gas mask, and venture into the depths of the Metro where desperate bandits, mutants, and worse haunt your every step

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Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • VR · 247
  • Exploration · 222
  • Shooter · 221
  • FPS · 213
  • Story Rich · 211
  • Post-apocalyptic · 189
  • Futuristic · 187
  • Dark · 181
  • Cinematic · 180
  • Shoot 'Em Up · 149
  • Action-Adventure · 147
  • First-Person · 134
  • 3D · 133
  • Action · 124
  • Cold War · 113

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Position in Action

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume2.6k Steam reviewsTop 87% in Action
Positive rating75% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 80%
Metacritic78/100Genre average 77 — top 52% of Action titles
Engagement hours7 h averageTop 59% for session depth among Action

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (11)

  • English volume_up
  • French
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Spanish - Latin America
  • Czech
  • Polish
  • Russian
  • Ukrainian volume_up

Full audio (2)

  • English
  • Ukrainian

Reception Metrics

Steam community

75%Mostly Positive · 2.6k reviews

1.9k positive · 640 negative

Metacritic

78/100 critic aggregate

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Curator recommendations

2.5k

Press Quotes

“one of the best VR games out there” 8/10 – PCGamesN “a mesmerizing VR gaming experience” 4.5/5 – UploadVR “Metro Awakening has become my favourite game in the franchise” 9/10 – Desconsolados

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

7h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

9h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

0h

Current engagement

Achievements

26

Steam unlocks available

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Cloud

Input & Comfort

  • Tracked Controller Support
  • VR Only

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Release & Availability

Release dateNov 7, 2024
DeveloperVertigo Games
Base price$19.99 -50%
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · Support · [email protected]

Content Notes

The game contains gunplay combat. Blood splatter and corpses appear in the environment. There are alcohol and tobacco references throughout the game in the form of insinuated consumption.

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Editions & Packages

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