16 April 2026 10AM PDT | 7PM CEST | 8PM EST
Metro’s back!
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After Exodus, I really don’t know how I feel about another Metro. Kinda feels like dragging out a dead horse to beat it with jumper cables.
That said, I loved 2033 and Last Light. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t hope they somehow go back to basics so we can have another immersive linear story with great characters and atmosphere.
While it was different, I did like Exodus in a different way and it felt pretty fresh.
Same, exodus was great
I thought it was half baked. Had a lot of good ideas but the overall execution felt rushed and slapped together.
Aw man, I loved Exodus.
Thank you!
Everywhere that I’ve given this same opinion I get beaten down by exodus lovers. I’ve nearly begun to think I’m the only one!
After reading the books, all I want is an open world Metro rpg. Let me play as an unseen observer sent by University station to spy on the rest of the metro’s factions. Let me bet on rat races at Paveletskaya. Let me play as a defender at Sevastopolskaya mowing down hordes of monstrosities. Let me be stalked by Great Worm Cultists near Park Pobedy. Let me compete in the annual stalker race around the ring stations. There are so many factions and independent stations that are never even mentioned in the games let alone visited. I feel like an open world game like that is the only way to do the books justice.
I was almost the opposite, after reading the books I don’t want to return to that world, the first one made it feel dark and bad, but intriguing and full of unknown, second one made it a bit darker, and the third one just made it so dark and depressing, like the Darkest Dungeon, where each step sips your sanity.
It just became massively unappealing, a world of Soviet-style state oppression in a can, without a hope, with no heroes, and where the only way forward is out.
I just played through 2033 and Last Light again for a third or fourth time since their original releases and love both, but I’m now on my second attempt to actually finish Exodus before losing interest because it feels like such a slog to me. I guess I probably ought to finish it now.
lol I could have just refreshed and not wrote almost the exact same take as @Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net
Lol I have restarted Exodus 4 times and never made it past the desert map before just becoming increasingly bored with it.
I finished it and i remembered i didn’t like it as much as the previous one because some element of the story doesn’t make sense(iirc there’s one part where a crewmate decided to stay back because he found someone he love, but then everyone mourn him like he’s dead in the next scene). Just rush through the story and take whatever consequences the game throw as you, because to not lose crewmate you need to explore a lot and take the correct path. It take me about 20 hours with some minor exploration to finish it so it’s not a really long game, shorter if you just stick to the main story.
If a game is a slog, don’t waste your time on it. Pick up something else that feels fun.
I feel the same way about Exodus. It might be a good game for many people, but it most definitely did not feel like a Metro game. I couldn’t get past the second area. It really was a slog.
I actually did manage to finish it, but it gives no added context for the new trailer anyway. I liked the endings but the “morality” system to get them is also the worst of the series, and boils down to whether or not you handle two forced combat/stealth encounters non-lethally unless you go out of your way to kill literal slaves for zero reason or reward. The enemies in those encounters are the same generic ones from the rest of their chapters, and they put that importance on playing non-lethally with 0 non-lethal weapons to use in an FPS. The entire game is half-baked ideas.
Awesome!!!