Metro Exodus is a true saga and the third installment of the Metro video game series. Based on the book series by Dimitry Glukhovsky, Metro is set in Russia’s remains after a global nuclear war. 4A Games, a AAA-level indie company, developed the video game series, and Deep Silver published them.

In Exodus, you play as Artyom, a determined and hopeful member/ally of a faction called the “Spartan Order.” The Order is led by Colonel Miller, a GRU special forces veteran before the bombs fell, whose main goal is to help as many people left as possible. Miller’s daughter, Anna, is married to Artyom and is a strong fighter in the faction. They are just some of the people in the large and diverse crew you will help lead. 

In this story, you embark upon a great journey on a train, searching for a new settlement and surviving government leadership to rebuild the world after humanity’s near destruction. The game is visually very detailed, with old settlements and past lives scattered about, and the environments complement the story perfectly. While there might be a few small rough patches here and there when traversing the environment, the gunplay on the other hand is entertaining and not very difficult to work with (depending on the difficulty chosen).

The story is fairly linear, but most levels’ environments are open-world, allowing more freedom. The soundtrack, done by Alexey Omelchuk, matches the presentation of the environment and brings out the roughness and desolation that the survivors might feel.

Though the game might have come out in 2019, I finished my third playthrough recently, and it’s still just as fun as the first time around. Alongside that, another title in the series, Metro Awakening, is set to be released for VR this November. 5/5 Stars. “If not us, then who?”