Recent reviews by Rattlesnark

Excellent value and comfort for an on-and-off player, with its absence of subscription-requirement. I return for new story content, otherwise doing only the Daily and Weekly objectives, and I feel no pressure to spend on microtransactions at all. Love coming back to this game.

This one's a 7/10 for me. Recommend waiting for improvement patches and/or a sale unless you're really keen on Metro and VR shooters.

Took me 12.2h (10.3h in-game) to beat the game on Hardcore difficulty with a lot of time spent searching for ammo and collectible postcards, so the length is somewhat fair relative to other VR FPS I've played.

Ambitious and worthy title of the Metro franchise with cool environments, unique gun mechanics, and novel backpack storage system. Characters and English voice acting were fun to follow along with. However, is marred by technical shortcomings (so-so graphics, lack of dynamic environmental props, sub-par PC performance) and somewhat repetitive levels and enemies (Metro underground, two-and-a-half variants of mutants, generic gun-wielding human bandits). More worthwhile for Metro fans than those who are unfamiliar. I enjoyed it as one of the former.

To be honest, I had pretty big expectations from seeing the (at the time) 96% review score on Steam and briefly glancing over a review video on YT that seemed to praise it a lot. Ultimately, the game falls short on many aspects.

More than half the game is running around unnecessarily large maps of empty streets - littered with enemies that you'd simply run around (only ever inclined to kill them in the few narrow indoor areas of the game) - and the very rare ammo or health pickup on the ground. The game at a later point also required the player to backtrack a loooong way to collect an extra item they'd otherwise miss, which by that point of the game you're likely to never use it.

Story wise, little is ever thoroughly explained and there isn't any conclusive answer to the how-and-why as I usually see in other horror titles. Environment storytelling is also lacking. Unless I'm just dense and not observant to the telltale exposition.

Game itself is also rather short and would have been 1-2 hours shorter still if the levels weren't so huge to jog around in and without the backtracking.

I've also run into a couple of rather annoying bugs; one I could simply re-load the game and avoid the problem action, while the other had to reset my key bindings to default so the in-game hint would actually properly prompt me as to what I should be pressing to perform an action.

Overall, I suppose it's "OK" for what seems to mostly be a 1-man project (judging from the credits), and it's probably a reasonable purchase at its generous price point. I'm just feeling wanting for and somewhat disappointed.

It's just "OK". You're expected to replay the same missions again-and-again for RNG rolls to get the parts needed to unlock legendary weapons and new characters. If you can tolerate (or enjoy) that, or like me - simply want to play through the story once and be done with things - this game ain't too bad for one run.

Great game and an equally excellent VR port. 17 years we've awaited...

Flawed in certain technical aspects, primarily on the accuracy of gripping the intended items from the ground or parts of weapons (pulling back gun sliders) - leading to some frustrating otherwise-avoidable deaths. Companion dog AI can be quite silly at times too. Main character "yaps" too much with his silly demeanour, taking away from the experience slightly. Wish we could bring more weapons with us so we need not be restricted between a rifle or a shotgun at any given time. However, playing through the campaign was overall rather engaging and kept me interested in coming back to play more of it daily. Have not tested Horde mode nor multiplayer feature(s).

VR Mod devs did a hell of a job making everything play so well in VR. Big props, excellent experience revisiting this game in VR.

Pretty much more of the same from the main game (with some new enemies and levels), but very much as enjoyable too. Short and sweet.

Overall rather enjoyable and reasonably fast-paced, with a fair bit of challenge on the hardest difficulty. Absolutely worth checking out of fans of the genre.

Feels like a mix of Tower Defense + Survivors + Cards - though not quite extremely fresh and exciting in the gameplay. Still, it's passable and enjoyable enough, worthwhile at a reasonable price