It's a good VR title.
The good:
-Full, proper single player campaign (still too rare in VR games)
-Good use of haptics (Reloading weapons, using your equipment, using tools in the environment. All equipment and weapons is accessed through a backpack with the right gestures, no menus or button shortcuts)
-Decent arsenal of weapons that are used in meaningfully different ways.
-Decent challenge variety between mutant fights, hostile human encounters, light puzzle/exploration sections and on rail shooting segements.
-Captures the Metro atmosphere pretty well, right "vibes" for the story.
-The rare VR stealth system, with basic distractions and melee takedowns.
-Runs pretty well.
-Haven't noticed any meaningful bugs.

The neutral:
-There is a lot of walking sections where you just go forward and talk to a character, and no meaningful gameplay challenges are occuring in the meantime. The game does get more "meaty" near the beginning and the end.

The bad:
-The game for the vast majority of the time is pretty easy, even on the highest difficulty.
-The screen gets lightly blurry when moving. You can get used to it, but it's annoying.
-The use of flickering lights near paranormal phenomena gets really annoying really quick in flat screen games, it hurt my eyes in VR. There's a fair few parts of the game where your flashlight will get dimmer and start to flicker for prolonged periods of time, while still being the only real light source.
-For the most part, a low interactivity environment.

All in all though, I would recommend it. I had a good time with it.

A wonderful addition to the Metro series. I do not believe this story could have been expressed better in any other format. I also love the addition of the worm cult from the first Metro book. I hope the next game lives up just as well.

This was such a good idea that the Metro franchise got an VR title. With their already well known focus on immersion, they put that here on another level:
Everything you interact feels real, be it cleaning the fog of your gas mask, the backpack interaction, or deciding between normal reload and emergency reload.
This was truly an epic VR experience.
My biggest downsight would be the performance. Although for a VR game the graphics are very good, the fps drops and stays low for some reason after you go in a new area (this is from Dec 2024 don't know if they fixed it). Also after a while the gameplay feels too repetetive, once you don't struggle with the ammo anymore... which is fairly an issue that the Metro games have in general.
But yeah great game and I hope that Metro Awakening sets a new standard for immersion in VR games.