Metro Exodus
Metro Exodus is a PlayStation 5 adventure game developed by 4A Games. It centers on combat encounters, area and route exploration, and story, case, or mission progress, with controls and information arranged around the DualSense twin sticks, triggers, directional pad, and face buttons, with touchpad, motion input, adaptive triggers, and detailed haptics where the game uses them.
- AI score · out of 10
- 8.5 / 10
About this game
Metro Exodus is a PlayStation 5 adventure game centered on combat encounters, area and route exploration, and story, case, or mission progress. Locations, objectives, and clues gradually open the main chapters, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Theme, character expression, and environmental clues need to support exploration together, while SSD streaming, 4K and HDR output, 3D audio, performance or quality modes, and high-density interfaces need to preserve feedback and information clarity together. The genre-specific limitation is that guidance, objective triggers, camera behavior, or dense text can create search and comprehension costs. Platform conditions also include install size, SSD space, patch version, DualSense battery life, visual mode and frame rate, online dependencies, PS VR2 requirements, and cross-generation version differences affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
Collected in series
Metro blends first-person shooting, stealth and survival horror in the nuclear wasteland of Dmitry Glukhovsky’s fictional universe. Underground settlements and ruined landscapes make ammunition, clean air and the decision to stay hidden feel equally important.
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AI review
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A humane wasteland journey benefits from its PS5 upgrade.
Survival interactions give shooting a physical context and make preparation matter. Some enemy behavior remains rough, so the tactical appeal is stronger than the consistency of every encounter. The journey changes place and season, balancing exploration with directed sequences. Its momentum comes from changing situations and relationships rather than treating an ever larger map as a reward. Artyom, Anna and their companions give the journey emotional continuity. The writing makes the devastated landscape personal, although uneven English performances sometimes weaken otherwise convincing character scenes. The reviewed PS5 upgrade offers smooth movement and expressive trigger resistance. Those console observations support more immediate weapon handling, without borrowing assumptions from the separate PC Enhanced release.
Strengths
- Characters give the journey emotional weight.
Weaknesses
- English voice work and enemy behavior are uneven.
Who it is for: Players seeking character-driven survival shooting.
Play notes: Based on the dated target-platform build; later patches and expansions are not automatically included.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension The journey changes place and season, balancing exploration with directed sequences. Its momentum comes from changing situations and relationships rather than treating an ever larger map as a reward. | Reviewed | 8.6 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Survival interactions give shooting a physical context and make preparation matter. Some enemy behavior remains rough, so the tactical appeal is stronger than the consistency of every encounter. | Reviewed | 8.4 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Artyom, Anna and their companions give the journey emotional continuity. The writing makes the devastated landscape personal, although uneven English performances sometimes weaken otherwise convincing character scenes. | Reviewed | 8.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension The reviewed PS5 upgrade offers smooth movement and expressive trigger resistance. Those console observations support more immediate weapon handling, without borrowing assumptions from the separate PC Enhanced release. | Reviewed | 8.5 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- 4A Games
- Publisher
- Deep Silver
- Release date
- Jun 18, 2021
- Platforms
- PlayStation 5
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Shooter · Primary genre
- Tags
- Solo-friendlyMain Story 10–20 Hours3D GraphicsReal-time CombatLinear LevelsExplorationHorrorThird PersonStory-drivenPuzzle SolvingSlow BurnInvestigation
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Single player
- Perspectives
- First person
Release editions
- Windows PCWorldwide2019
- PlayStation 5WorldwideJun 18, 2021
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