Compelling story and characters
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“The story is absolutely fantastic and, in my opinion, even better than the first game's story.”
Steam review · 8.1 h played ↗
Metro: Last Light Redux
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Very Positive · 91%Very Positive · 91%4A Games2014FPS · Horror · Action
The verdict
A strong story-driven post-apocalyptic shooter with superb atmosphere, held back by a harsh hidden karma system, crashes and bugs. Skip it if you hate stealth or scripted linear play.
Great for
Fans of atmospheric, linear story-driven shooters who played Metro 2033 and enjoy stealth and world-building
Main risk
Bad ending from the hidden karma system, plus crashes, soft-locks and save bugs
What players love
Superb oppressive atmosphere
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“The atmosphere absolutely carries the experience, with lighting and sound doing most of the heavy lifting.”
Steam review · 21.9 h played ↗
Great graphics, lighting and sound
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“Graphics are still amazing to this day for a game this old”
Steam review · 5.2 h played ↗
Great sequel with more variety and value
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“it's definetly got more world-building, weapon variety, enemies (screw the shrimps), levels and the finale is so much better and epic than 2033.”
Steam review · 14.6 h played ↗
Stealth or action, play your way
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“You can go stealth or just fight your way through, which makes it more interesting.”
Steam review · 28.6 h played ↗
Living, detailed world and NPC chatter
Mentioned in ~1 in 17 positive reviews
“I love how much goes on around you, even when your in a different room you can hear conversations between NPCs.”
Steam review · 7.4 h played ↗
What players complain about
Soft-locks, corrupted saves and game bugs
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“two bandits remained static instead of following through with their scripted movement path, and corrupted my save.”
Steam review · 14.4 h played ↗
Crashes and freezes
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“game crashes every 10 minutes during battles”
Steam review · 11.3 h played ↗
Opaque, harsh karma and ending system
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“Getting a SINGLE bad karma permanently locks you out of the good ending.”
Steam review · 32.4 h played ↗
Scripted, cutscene-heavy and weaker story
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“The majority of these games are spent in partially interactive cut scenes.”
Steam review · 2.1 h played ↗
Poor stealth, shooting and enemy AI
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews
“Enemy awareness is entirely binary; guards will stare blankly into the darkness while you execute their colleagues mere feet away.”
Steam review · 19.6 h played ↗
Resolution and FOV problems
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 negative reviews
“Resolution settings are broken by default on windows 11.”
Steam review · 14.1 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: VerifiedController support10 GB
Minimum
OSWindows Vista, 7 or 8 (64-bit only)
ProcessorDual Core CPU (2.2+ GHz Dual Core CPU or better)
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsDirectX 10, Shader Model 4 compliant graphics cards (GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB, GeForce GTS 250, etc)
Storage10 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 7 or 8 (64-bit only)
ProcessorAny Quad Core or 3.0+ GHz Dual Core CPU
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsDirectX 11 compliant graphics card (GeForce GTX 480 and above)
Storage10 GB available space
OSWindows Vista, 7 or 8 (64-bit only)
ProcessorDual Core CPU (2.2+ GHz Dual Core CPU or better)
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsDirectX 10, Shader Model 4 compliant graphics cards (GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB, GeForce GTS 250, etc)
Storage10 GB available space
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