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Metro Awakening
Metro Awakening is a story-driven first person adventure built for VR that blends atmospheric exploration, stealth and combat in the most immersive Metro experience yet. Don your gas mask, brave the crippling radiation and venture into the depths of the Metro where threats haunt your every step.
View on Steam ↗ $29.99 (US · as of 2026-09-05)What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
44 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Great game! Borrows a lot from alyx, exploration and combat is nice, it maintains that great balance of horror thriller and shooter. I have really only one main gripe with the game. While the game does balance tension…”
“7.5/10 I'd say the minus is big and simple - no russian audio. I mean, it’s MOSCOW metro and everyone is speaking English? No, that not how it is supposed to be. Controls are clumsy and quite often mess up and instead…”
“WOW! This is was such a great game. I purchased it around the time it came out as I am huge fan of the METRO Franchise. Did not get around to play it until now. This was an amazing experience, if a game can make me cry…”
20 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“As a lifelong fan of the Metro series and an avid VR enthusiast, Metro Awakening satisfies just about all my asks. This is a near perfect rendition of the claustrophobic post apocalyptic Moscow subway tunnels, now in…”
“I beat this in 3 long seasons... 17.9 hours clocked by Steam.... I loved this, form start to finish, it was a great game over all. I never read the books, but I have loved every Metro title so far, and this is no…”
“Tripple A VR game. Good plot, graphics and overall gameplay. Had no bugs of problems with performance. If you have a headset, give it a go”
17 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“WOW! This is was such a great game. I purchased it around the time it came out as I am huge fan of the METRO Franchise. Did not get around to play it until now. This was an amazing experience, if a game can make me cry…”
“One of the greatest Metro and VR games of all time. This is gonna make it very hard to play the flatscreen mainline games again, as VR just feels so right for Metro. The story is fantastic and does an amazing job…”
“I beat this in 3 long seasons... 17.9 hours clocked by Steam.... I loved this, form start to finish, it was a great game over all. I never read the books, but I have loved every Metro title so far, and this is no…”
9 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“7.5/10 I'd say the minus is big and simple - no russian audio. I mean, it’s MOSCOW metro and everyone is speaking English? No, that not how it is supposed to be. Controls are clumsy and quite often mess up and instead…”
“Vertigo games did a great job with this game. I'm currently playing through it on my OG HTC VIVE and my pc can handle this game set to the highest setting, hardest difficultly mode. Hardcore just like metro is meant to…”
“Tripple A VR game. Good plot, graphics and overall gameplay. Had no bugs of problems with performance. If you have a headset, give it a go”
5 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“I beat this in 3 long seasons... 17.9 hours clocked by Steam.... I loved this, form start to finish, it was a great game over all. I never read the books, but I have loved every Metro title so far, and this is no…”
“Metro Awakening is a hauntingly beautiful masterclass in VR atmosphere, with stellar voice acting and environments that make it a truly worthy entry in the Metro series. The tactile immersion is second to none, wiping…”
“Excellent VR game. If you’ve got VR, you should definitely check this one out. The atmosphere is dark, tense, and way more immersive than I expected. Every sound has you on edge, and the environments feel lived-in…”
23 of the 104 reviews raise this · 14 of them still recommend the game.
“Good game, stealth sections do not compare to the original metro games though, not enough tools VR is way to wonky and inconsistent. the amount of times a pulled my pistol and fired when trying to make a fist is insane.…”
“This game is overall really good I think, definitely one of the few VR "must play". It's probably the closest thing we have to half-life alyx at the moment although Metro VR is leagues behind in terms of quality and…”
“Vertigo games did a great job with this game. I'm currently playing through it on my OG HTC VIVE and my pc can handle this game set to the highest setting, hardest difficultly mode. Hardcore just like metro is meant to…”
15 of the 104 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“7.5/10 I'd say the minus is big and simple - no russian audio. I mean, it’s MOSCOW metro and everyone is speaking English? No, that not how it is supposed to be. Controls are clumsy and quite often mess up and instead…”
“Good game, stealth sections do not compare to the original metro games though, not enough tools VR is way to wonky and inconsistent. the amount of times a pulled my pistol and fired when trying to make a fist is insane.…”
“One of the greatest Metro and VR games of all time. This is gonna make it very hard to play the flatscreen mainline games again, as VR just feels so right for Metro. The story is fantastic and does an amazing job…”
13 of the 104 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“7.5/10 I'd say the minus is big and simple - no russian audio. I mean, it’s MOSCOW metro and everyone is speaking English? No, that not how it is supposed to be. Controls are clumsy and quite often mess up and instead…”
“Good game, stealth sections do not compare to the original metro games though, not enough tools VR is way to wonky and inconsistent. the amount of times a pulled my pistol and fired when trying to make a fist is insane.…”
“This game is overall really good I think, definitely one of the few VR "must play". It's probably the closest thing we have to half-life alyx at the moment although Metro VR is leagues behind in terms of quality and…”
12 of the 104 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“As a lifelong fan of the Metro series and an avid VR enthusiast, Metro Awakening satisfies just about all my asks. This is a near perfect rendition of the claustrophobic post apocalyptic Moscow subway tunnels, now in…”
“I'm leaving the negative review here just becouse of the performance, although i just want to say that it is an amazing vr exprience, the pcvr version is a mess in terms of performance, don't even bother if you're not…”
“the amount of stuttering and low fps is insane. cant reccomend for the sole purpose of how badly optimised it is. quest 2 level graphics at 20fps is not ok.”
10 of the 104 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“Great game! Borrows a lot from alyx, exploration and combat is nice, it maintains that great balance of horror thriller and shooter. I have really only one main gripe with the game. While the game does balance tension…”
Counted across 104 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 74.5% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“Yes if u compare this game to Half-Life Alyx, the game pretty much lacks in everything. But if u look at it as a standalone vr game in its self its basically perfect. Would recommend buying it if u have a vr.”
— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs played“Fairly short, only 12 hours for playthrough on Medium, but so far the second best VR shooter I have played. (Alyx is 1st, Boneworks is 3rd). Played on Oculus Quest 1 (so at 72Hz) over Virtual DEsktop no problem, beat it in 3 sessions. The later Nosalis chapters had me properly…”
— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs played“the story itself is so mediocre and this felt nothing like a vr game the ending was good and shooting was fun but the rest of it was so mediocre i genuinely had to force myself to finish the game not a fan of it oh and performance was pretty meh”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action, Adventure |
| Player tags | VR · Exploration · Shooter · FPS · Story Rich · Post-apocalyptic · Futuristic · Dark · Cinematic · Shoot 'Em Up · Action-Adventure · First-Person (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Tracked Controller Support · VR Only · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Czech, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian * |
| Achievements | 26 |
| Official site | https://metroawakening.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 - 64 bit Processor: Intel 9th gen i7 (i7-9700) Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: RTX-2070 8GB DirectX: Version 12 VR Support: Oculus Rift, Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest 3 Family, HTC VIVE, HTC VIVE PRO and HTC VIVE PRO 2 and Index