Games like Metro Awakening
If Metro Awakening is your kind of game, the closest matches are After the Fall®, Distortion VR and The Stranger VR — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its beautiful and horrifying graphics, anxious and atmospheric. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Metro Awakening is a 2024 VR action-adventure set in post-apocalyptic Metro tunnels. Developed and published by Vertigo Games, it costs $17.99. The game features checkpoint-based and mission-based progression, combining environmental storytelling with inventory management and light mechanics. Players navigate precision platforming challenges while managing resources to survive. Reviewers highlight effective horror elements and suspense, noting the dark claustrophobic tunnel setting creates tension, while also praising the excellent VR gunplay and immersive atmosphere. Players describe the experience as anxious, eerie, and atmospheric, with beautiful and horrifying graphics enhancing the gritty tone. The game runs approximately medium length in challenging solo sessions. Metacritic scores it at 78, with Steam reviews at 75% positive from 1,739 reviews.
About Metro Awakening: 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.
Players who liked Metro Awakening also play
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After the Fall®
WHY THIS
Shares weapon customization and a tense mood with Metro Awakening.
Top pick for Metro Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Metro Awakening.
From the team that brought you Arizona Sunshine® comes an epic VR action FPS with intense co-op gameplay at its core. Team up with friends and take on a hostile VR world filled with ferocious undead--mutated and twisted by the relentless cold.
Distortion VR
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Metro Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Metro Awakening.
The world of Distortion exists in a Cyberpunk mega city in the near future. It is a world where technology is being abused and the citizens are being controlled by thought from birth. What's real is uncertain.
The Stranger VR
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Metro Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Metro Awakening.
The Stranger is an intense VR combat game which sets in an incredibly detailed exotic world. Explore the rich sci fi universe and survive with your weapons and wrist blade. Welcome to the world of the Stranger!
DemonPandemicVR
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Metro Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Metro Awakening.
We all have inner demons, now it's time to face them. You are a lone wolf, you must scavenge for weapons and yeet your environment across seven maps as you try to survive this VR shooter against waves of demons.
System Critical 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Metro Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Metro Awakening.
System Critical 2 is bigger & badder than ever before! Get ready to experience a platformer shooter like no other in VR. Blast your arm cannon and use guns, melee weapons, grenades,& shields to make your way through the carefully crafted levels with epic boss battles and tons of enemies to kill.
Of Lies and Rain
WHY THIS
Shares checkpoint based progression, real time combat and atmospheric with Metro Awakening.
Ranked #6 for Metro Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Metro Awakening.
Of Lies and Rain is a story-driven first person shooter built exclusively for VR. Set in a dark, sci-fi, post-apocalyptic world, at the edge of the real and digital realm. You’ll fight to reclaim your past and save humanity from the brink of extinction.
GAZZLERS
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Metro Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Metro Awakening.
Set in a cartoon world, you shoot, block and dodge your way through hordes of hilarious enemies that drive and fly around in their clunky vehicles. Steal their scrap, upgrade your skills and build a weapon so insane it just might work! How far will you get?
HEARTSHOT
WHY THIS
Shares mission based progression, checkpoint based progression and atmospheric with Metro Awakening.
Ranked #8 for Metro Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Metro Awakening.
HEARTSHOT is a story driven VR espionage thriller where fast, chaotic gunplay meets retro-inspired cinematic environments. Armed with high-tech magnet gloves, seize weapons from fallen enemies and manipulate your environment as you make your way through a mysterious subterranean complex.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Metro Awakening
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Metro 2033 Redux
WHY THIS
Shares stealth mechanics and an atmospheric mood with Metro Awakening.
Reviewers of Metro Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Metro Awakening.
In 2013 the world was devastated by an apocalyptic event, annihilating almost all mankind and turning the Earth's surface into a poisonous wasteland. A handful of survivors took refuge in the depths of the Moscow underground, and human civilization entered a new Dark Age. The year is 2033.
Metro: Last Light Redux
WHY THIS
Shares weapon customization and an atmospheric mood with Metro Awakening.
Reviewers of Metro Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Metro Awakening.
It is the year 2034. Beneath the ruins of post-apocalyptic Moscow, in the tunnels of the Metro, the remnants of mankind are besieged by deadly threats from outside – and within. Mutants stalk the catacombs beneath the desolate surface, and hunt amidst the poisoned skies above.
Arizona Sunshine®
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Metro Awakening.
Reviewers of Metro Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Metro Awakening.
Built exclusively for VR, Arizona Sunshine® puts you and up to 3 fellow survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Survive solo or in co-op, handle weapons with real-life movements, and explore a post-apocalyptic world in VR. Putting the undead back to rest is more thrilling than ever before.
Half-Life: Alyx
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Metro Awakening.
Reviewers of Metro Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Metro Awakening.
Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.
Metro Exodus
WHY THIS
Shares stealth mechanics and an atmospheric mood with Metro Awakening.
Reviewers of Metro Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Metro Awakening.
Flee the shattered ruins of the Moscow Metro and embark on an epic, continent-spanning journey across the post-apocalyptic Russian wilderness. Explore vast, non-linear levels, lose yourself in an immersive, sandbox survival experience, and follow a thrilling story-line that spans an entire year in the greatest Metro adventure yet.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Metro Awakening at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Metro Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Metro Awakening.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Metro Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Action with Metro Awakening.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Metro Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Action with Metro Awakening.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Metro Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Action with Metro Awakening.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Metro Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Action with Metro Awakening.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~61% under Metro Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Action with Metro Awakening.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Metro Awakening.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Metro Awakening.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Metro Awakening.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Metro Awakening.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Metro Awakening.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Metro Awakening.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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More from Vertigo Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Vertigo Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Arizona Sunshine®
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Metro Awakening.
Another title from Vertigo Games, the studio behind Metro Awakening. Shares Action and Adventure with Metro Awakening.
Built exclusively for VR, Arizona Sunshine® puts you and up to 3 fellow survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. Survive solo or in co-op, handle weapons with real-life movements, and explore a post-apocalyptic world in VR. Putting the undead back to rest is more thrilling than ever before.
After the Fall®
WHY THIS
Shares weapon customization and a tense mood with Metro Awakening.
Another title from Vertigo Games, the studio behind Metro Awakening. Shares Action and Adventure with Metro Awakening.
From the team that brought you Arizona Sunshine® comes an epic VR action FPS with intense co-op gameplay at its core. Team up with friends and take on a hostile VR world filled with ferocious undead--mutated and twisted by the relentless cold.
Arizona Sunshine® 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Metro Awakening.
Another title from Vertigo Games, the studio behind Metro Awakening. Shares Action and Adventure with Metro Awakening.
It's time to say hello to your old pal, Fred. Arizona Sunshine® 2, the next-gen sequel to the fan-favorite VR apocalypse, packs even more gore-geous zombie action! And what's better than braving the end of the f*cking world alone? Surviving it with your new best friend--Buddy.
Arizona Sunshine® Remake
WHY THIS
Shares weapon customization, checkpoint based progression and atmospheric with Metro Awakening.
Another title from Vertigo Games, the studio behind Metro Awakening. Shares Action and Adventure with Metro Awakening.
Arizona Sunshine® Remake elevates the original, award-winning game, completely rebuilt with GORE-geous VR graphics and next-gen VR combat and weapons. Face the undead alone or with up to three fellow survivors in a post-apocalyptic southwestern America overrun by zombies.
World of Diving
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Metro Awakening.
Another title from Vertigo Games, the studio behind Metro Awakening. Shares Adventure with Metro Awakening.
An uncharted world awaits. World of Diving is the multiplayer online game that brings you an exhilarating underwater adventure with optional VR support.
Adam's Venture: Origins
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Metro Awakening.
Another title from Vertigo Games, the studio behind Metro Awakening. Shares Adventure with Metro Awakening.
Embark on a bold adventure in Adam’s Venture: Origins. Set in the roaring 20’s, in Adam’s Venture: Origins you will explore ancient ruins, and recover mysterious artifacts. Together with your trusted accomplice Evelyn, you will have to outsmart the evil Clairvaux company.
The 7th Guest VR
WHY THIS
Shares environmental storytelling and atmospheric with Metro Awakening.
Another title from Vertigo Games, the studio behind Metro Awakening. Shares Adventure with Metro Awakening.
The iconic supernatural mystery, The 7th Guest, has been brought back to life with cutting-edge VR technology, that delivers an atmospheric story like no other. Explore the foreboding mansion, solve challenging puzzles, and uncover its dark secrets.
Adam's Venture Chronicles
WHY THIS
Another title from Vertigo Games, the studio behind Metro Awakening. Shares Adventure with Metro Awakening.
Help renowned explorer and adventurer Adam Venture and his accomplice Evelyn discover artifacts, unravel ancient mysteries, decipher strange symbols and solve ingenious puzzles around gorgeous historical sites from the 1920's.
Frequently asked about Metro Awakening
- Does Metro Awakening work on Steam Deck?
- Metro Awakening is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Metro Awakening cost?
- Metro Awakening is listed on Steam at 17.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Metro Awakening?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Metro Awakening are After the Fall®, Distortion VR, The Stranger VR.
- Who developed Metro Awakening?
- Metro Awakening was developed by Vertigo Games.
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