Metro Awakening

Metro Awakening

Skip · Shooter · 2024

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 29, under the fair line, at $29.99.

Length
10h
Value
$3.00/hr
Reviews
74% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Buy now or wait

The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.

Discounted in each of its last 7 seasonal sales on record.

Autumn Sale cooldown
None on record
Last discount ended
11 days ago

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
10h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
14.6h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$3.00
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$29.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
74%
3,594 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
78
critic score
Players
75K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2024

Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, RTX-2070 8GB. Windows only.

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.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Value$3.00/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews74% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Refunds41 of 800 reviews
Well above the typical game's share of reviews from refunded buyers, so the score takes a small dock
For context
Length10 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $9.89. That was September 2026. 21 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 45 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Into the Radius 2 ($27.99, scores 34) beats it on value, while it beats Alien: Rogue Incursion VR ($9.99, scores 21).

Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 41 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,071 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 100 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 4 of the 41 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 749 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

65% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

Players

28 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 22:47 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Not sure what the people saying "it's buggy as" are complaining about. Out of all my vr games, this one feels like it runs the best. it's super smooth. it looks good, feels good, the story is interesting. the only other metro game i have played is exodus and that was a while ago. but i believe it does the franchise justice. it's got great action and it's creepy and, to be quite frank. grim. like very grim. the only...
Mr. Far AwayRecommendedafter 4.5hSep 2026Read on Steam
Atmospheric exploration, Stealth and Combat... what more could you ask for? The game looks good, plays well and will have you trapped for hours. If you have VR Its a MUST BUY.
TabernakalRecommendedafter 12hSep 2026Read on Steam
This game is so laggy although i love the metro series alot I genuinely cant play because of how bad the lag is
FurinaholicNot recommendedafter 2.2h7 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Metro Awakening scores 29/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2669410/metro-awakening
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players-4
Critics
78
Players
74
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 3,594 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperVertigo Games
PublisherVertigo Games
GenreShooter
Released2024
Achievements26