Metal Eden Reviews
Metal Eden just needs a little more to truly stand out. Its intriguing story could use tighter pacing and sharper dialogue, its refreshing gunplay could use more variety, and its strong audio could benefit from a bit more polish. It falls just shy in most areas, though its visuals shine as brightly as its setting, but it’s far from awful, just not quite the best.
Despite its rough edges, questionable design decisions in some pace-breaking sections, and the bugs I encountered, my answer is a resounding yes. Metal Eden is a fantastic, addictive, and must-play first-person shooter for any action fan looking for an experience similar to DOOM: Eternal, but with a captivating personality all its own.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
With METAL EDEN, Reikon Games offers an intense and fun experience, where frenetic action, acrobatics, and a certain strategic approach to handling different situations come together perfectly. It's a game that rewards the player's skill and creativity, and demonstrates that the genre can still surprise us.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
When "Metal Eden" is fun, it's truly enjoyable. The battles are challenging and require full concentration and quick decision-making. At the same time, gameplay-wise, it's just a copy of other, better games and offers little that stands out.
Review in German | Read full review
Metal Eden can’t, nor it wants to hide its Doom Eternal inspiration in a more sci-fi theme, but it’s hard to fault a game for trying to live up to one of the best shooters ever made. Metal Eden is an adrenaline rush of a high speed shooter with excellent shooting, great traversal, lovely visuals and soundscapes, one that keeps throwing fancy new moves and brutal new weaponry to play with. It’s a short ride, ending just around 4 hours, and a couple technical gremlins and perhaps its lack of innovation may deny it a spot among the gods of the genre.
METAL EDEN impresses above all with its fast-paced, adrenaline-fuelled gameplay, which reminds shooter fans of the old-school classics. The interplay of precise gun play, dynamic parkour and clever upgrades makes for an intense gaming experience in which every move counts. The gloomy, futuristic world of the monolithic city of Moebius is atmospherically dense, richly detailed and perfectly supported by a thrilling soundtrack.
Review in German | Read full review
Metal Eden represents everything I love about videogames. It also helps that it has likely the best gunplay of a shooter in the past several years. While its story may not grab most players, its focus on constant action and creative platforming certainly will. Reikon has crafted a stunningly brilliant cyberpunk shooter here that is a testament to their creative vision and an absolute pleasure to experience.
Metal Eden proves to be a powerful and visceral FPS, perfect for those who love fast-paced action and rewarding high-speed challenges. Despite a setting that is not always original or inspired, characterized by effective but unmemorable visual design and a narrative depth that is decidedly not excellent, the combination of fluid combat, verticality, and mechanics such as the distinctive core extraction (which gives gunplay an extra edge), together with high adrenaline, solid technical performance, and immersive audio, make for a fresh and compelling experience right up to the end. In short, Metal Eden isn't perfect, but we consider it—to date—a very good and promising example for all fans of the futuristic arcade first-person shooter genre.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Metal Eden is Reikon Games’ dazzling cyberpunk FPS paradise - blazing fast, stylishly brutal, and unforgettable, even if its chaotic UI, brief campaign, and occasional stutters slightly chip the neon polish.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
Metal Eden is a fantastic, high-octane FPS that, even in its short campaign run time, occasionally strays too far from its core combat loop. A lack of any additional game modes, not even a new game plus option, does make this package feel a bit lacking, as I wanted to do more when credits rolled, but didn't have any options besides running through it again. The narrative takes up far too much time, and the dialogue during missions is overly dramatic in a way that is quite grating, but the core combat is more than enough to make me happy with my time playing.