Metro Awakening Reviews
The Combat is serviceable for a VR game involving firearms and maybe a little more enemy variety feels needed. However, a light at the end of the Metro tunnel is seen through its fantastic storytelling and world-building.
One of the more interesting offerings for VR goggles this year and a confection for fans of the Metro universe.
Review in Polish | Read full review
After a long time, Metro Awakening is finally another reason to take the VR headset out of the shelf, dust it off and play something. It's a game you'll enjoy thanks to its very good atmosphere and decent story, but it has a rather rambling narrative that's hard to follow at times.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Metro Awakening is a great virtual reality game. Immersive, interesting, challenging and faithful to the Metro universe. However, its pace is a bit slow, the story takes a while to get going and some moments, because they are “too realistic”, can end up being stressful for the player.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Every encounter raised my adrenaline, and while hearing the roar of approaching monsters, my hair stood on end more than once. Metro Awakening is not one of the best game on VR hardware, but also one of the best titles I've played in recent years.
Review in Polish | Read full review
Metro Awakening represents not only a return to the Moscow metro after a relatively long time, but also the first opportunity to experience this post-apocalyptic world literally from the perspective of your own eyes in virtual reality. Vertigo Games managed to do it incredibly succesfully. It is, simply put, a full-fledged Metro that no fan should miss. This is despite its flaws, for example with the abrupt change of narrative style midway through or the repetition of locations.
Review in Czech | Read full review
Metro Awakening does exactly what you'd expect and there's nothing wrong with that.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
Metro Awakening VR is a dark, twisted spiritual journey that will have you questioning your sanity. I have experienced fear and panic that I never even knew that I had within me throughout my time with this incredible entry to the Metro series.
I came away from Metro Awakening VR feeling more like I had played a “Metro-lite” game than anything else, but that is ultimately just fine. It stands alone in the series as the only VR title, so by default, it brings a level of immersion in this world that none of the other titles could ever reach. While certainly not even close to my favorite game in the series, Metro Awakening proves yet again that VR is a growing medium that should and will receive more attention and support as time goes on.
The immersiveness, great production values and excellent plot made up for many of its shortcomings. At times, Metro Awakening feels borderline revolutionary, offering AAA-quality storytelling and attention to detail to a small device like the Quest 2. Sadly, the gameplay is a bit too clunky. Between the camera limitations and poor combat, I was mostly enjoying the plot and fooling myself into believing I was inside the game’s setting, not the horror or combat sections themselves.
Metro Awakening delivers an immersive dive into the maze-like metro tunnels, showcasing commendable effort from Vertigo Games. While its impactful opening sets high expectations, the spinoff struggles with an overly long runtime given its limited content variety and technical shortcomings.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Metro Awakening ventures into VR with mixed results. The game offers detailed environments and immersive sound design but struggles with performance tweaks and long load times. While it answers key lore questions and provides solid gunplay, its linear and repetitive gameplay diminishes the overall experience. Though it doesn’t match the heights of VR titans like Half-Life: Alyx, it remains an engaging spin-off for Metro fans.
Vertigo Games have outdone themselves with this one. A great addition to the series and to the Metro Universe overall. I sincerely hope this isn’t the last VR game that we get from the Metro! Metro Awakening VR receives the Thumb Culture Gold Award.
Metro Awakening succeeds in translating the Metro series to virtual reality by focusing on its strengths: immersive storytelling, atmospheric exploration, and visceral combat. While it doesn’t reinvent the formula, it adapts it thoughtfully, shedding complexity where necessary to make for an immersive and engrossing experience. The result is a game that feels both familiar and fresh – a poignant, tense, and visually stunning journey through one of gaming’s most harrowing post-apocalyptic worlds. It does have some minor flaws and can grow a little repetitive at times, but still manages to offer a captivating virtual reality experience that both long-time Metro fans and those new to the series are sure to enjoy.
Metro Awakening brings the Metro universe to virtual reality. The game impresses with an excellently realized end-time atmosphere in the Moscow subway, which is in no way inferior to the main series. The story, the characters and, above all, the typical VR mechanics such as climbing, opening doors and turning valves also impressed us throughout, as did the truly outstanding implementation of the shooting system. If you ignore the somewhat poorly detailed creatures, the sometimes somewhat awkward motion controls (e.g. when loading the lamp) or the repeatedly wildly placed subtitles, you definitely get a high-quality VR experience in twelve chapters, which is a worthy representative of the main series.
Review in German | Read full review
Metro Awakening is a thrilling title that newcomers and longtime fans will love despite its few but glaring flaws. The game smartly rolls out different weapons and gadgets, so it's not too overwhelming for the player. Shooting monsters and planning out stealth strategies is a lot of fun, even if the combat itself may feel more cumbersome than it should. It's frustrating that there were moments when the game needed to be restarted as the frame rate dropped significantly. With the holidays coming up, Metro Awakening is a must-have game for any VR lover, old-school Metro fan or both.
The greatest strength of Metro: Awakening lies in its ability to render the disastrous world created by Dmitry Glukhovsky tangibly oppressive, transporting the player into the depths of the Moscow metro like never before. Dirty, grim, and ruthless, the title developed by Vertigo Games Amsterdam makes the player feel like a true survivor, constantly powerless and at the mercy of the dark threats lurking underground. This is achieved through a shooter with survival elements that, while somewhat conventional, is highly effective, featuring engaging and immersive mechanics. It might run in circles a bit too much in its final stages, but if you love the series, there’s no reason to delay a highly recommended purchase.
Review in Italian | Read full review
All in all, "Metro Awakening" is an outstanding experience, especially for Metro fans, although the game does not live up to the very high expectations in some respects. The gameplay and the story are good on their own, but they get in each other's way a bit. The story dominates entire sections of the game, which then feel more like an interactive movie, while the gameplay misses out on really evolving over the course of the game and offering a truly new experience. But "Metro Awakening" has hit the core perfectly: Implementing the atmosphere and gameplay of "Metro 2033" in a VR environment.
Review in German | Read full review
After a long wait for a VR game to rival Half-Life: Alyx, Metro Awakening by VR powerhouse Vertigo Games initially seemed like a worthy contender, but after eight hours in Moscow’s post-apocalyptic metro tunnels, it’s clear that on the Quest 3, inconsistent graphics, problematic controls, lack of variety, and technical issues hold it back from reaching Alyx's heights, leaving only nostalgia to carry hardcore Metro fans through an experience that struggles to stay compelling over time.
Review in Dutch | Read full review