Metro: Last Light Redux
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Frequent first-person gunfights against human factions and melee/ranged combat with mutated creatures, with blood and injury effects throughout.
Post-nuclear bleakness, genocide and factional atrocities, dying children, and heavy moral choices about killing surrendered enemies.
A brothel level lets the player watch a paid private striptease dance, and a later scene depicts an implied sexual encounter between Artyom and Anna.
Strong profanity in dialogue among soldiers and survivors in the English localization.
Bare-breasted dancers appear at a station club and a partner is shown topless during an intimate scene.
Survivors drink vodka and smoke at Metro settlements, with alcohol shown and consumed on screen.
Dark tunnels, sudden mutant ambushes, unsettling supernatural visions, and dread-filled abandoned surface areas.
The Reich faction is shown interrogating and abusing captive prisoners.
The Venice station features a brothel with prostitutes and a paid private dance the player can pay to watch.
Factions run prison camps and carry out executions and abuses the player witnesses.
Combat involves killing mutated beasts and creatures as a standard survival mechanic.
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What it is
Metro: Last Light Redux is a single-player first-person shooter set in 2034 beneath the ruins of Moscow, where survivors of a nuclear war live in subway tunnels. Playing as the soldier Artyom, you fight rival human factions and mutated creatures while managing scarce ammunition, a gas mask on the toxic surface, and light and stealth in the dark. Content includes frequent gunfire and bloody combat, a bleak post-apocalyptic story dealing with war, genocide and death, unsettling horror atmosphere with mutants and supernatural elements, strong profanity, drinking and smoking, a brothel scene with a striptease and an implied sexual encounter, and a sequence in which a captured enemy faction abuses prisoners.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence and hardship as grim survival in a ruined world, and it uses a hidden morality system that rewards restraint — sparing enemies, aiding beggars, and avoiding needless killing shift the story toward its more hopeful ending, so cruelty and mercy are presented as meaningful choices rather than celebrated.
Details
- Developer
- 4A Games
- Publisher
- Deep Silver
- Released
- Aug 25, 2014
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