Metro Awakening
First-person VR shooter searching Moscow's post-apocalyptic subway for medicine
Vertigo Games · Released Nov 7, 2024
- Reviews
- Mostly Positive
- 74% of 3,586
- Recent reviews
- Mixed
- 66% of 42 in 30 days
- Playing now
- 15
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Unsupported
- Last update
- 1 year ago
- Dec 12, 2024
Metacritic: 78/100 (critic reviews)
What is Metro Awakening?
A single-player, first-person VR adventure set in Moscow's subway tunnels after a nuclear catastrophe. As Serdar, a doctor looking for his wife and the medicine she needs, you explore, use stealth to avoid threats, and fight bandits and mutants with handmade weapons while managing ammunition and gas-mask filters.
For you if...
- +you want a story-led VR adventure with tense exploration
- +you enjoy switching between stealth and shooting
- +you like dark settings with supernatural threats
Not for you if...
- −you want to play without a VR headset
- −you avoid dark settings and sudden scares
- −you expect extensive looting and gun customization
What players say
74% of 3,586 reviews are positive · 66% of 42 in the last 30 days
Players praise the tense atmosphere and hands-on VR details, such as cleaning a gas mask. Others criticize repetitive areas, uneven pacing, and a story they find thin. Recent complaints also describe blurry visuals, awkward item handling, and poor performance.
Screenshots and trailer
Metro Awakening system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 10 - 64 bit
- Processor
- Intel 9th gen i7 (i7-9700)
- Graphics
- RTX-2070 8GB
- Memory
- 16 GB RAM
- DirectX
- Version 12
Recommended
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Achievements
- 26
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing, VR
Steam Deck: Unsupported
- Steam o s does not support_ v r
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Full audio: English. Text only: French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Czech, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian.
Tags
- VR
- Shooter
- Exploration
- Story Rich
- FPS
- Post-apocalyptic
- Futuristic
- Dark
- Cinematic
- Shoot 'Em Up
- Action-Adventure
- First-Person
- 3D
- Action
- Cold War
- Realistic
Recent updates
- Dec 12, 2024 · Metro Awakening Patch 1.0
- Nov 27, 2024 · Metro Awakening Hotfix November 27
- Nov 15, 2024 · Metro Awakening – Hotfix November 15
- Nov 8, 2024 · Metro Awakening – Hotfix November 8
- Nov 8, 2024 · Fix for low performance and crashes in Metro Awakening
1 DLC available.
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