Games Like Metro 2033 Redux

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.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 26%, Based On A Novel 16.3% ★, FPS 14.1%, Stealth 7.4%, Horror 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This direct sequel preserves Metro 2033 Redux's linear, story-heavy structure, desperate tunnel combat, stealth, monsters, and oppressive post-apocalyptic Moscow atmosphere.

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.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 29.2%, FPS 16.5%, Stealth 7.4%, Horror 7.1%, Story Rich 7%

Why You'll Like It: It expands Metro's survival-focused gunplay and narrative journey into larger hostile regions while retaining the series' haunting Russian post-nuclear tone.

Enter the Chornobyl Anomalous Zone — a vast open world where anomalies, mutants, and rivals stand in your way. Explore, scavenge, and try to survive in this brutal and dangerous land. Evolving with every update, now overhauled and crowned with UPDATE 2.0.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 35.2%, FPS 23%, Survival 8.3%, Atmospheric 8.2%, Shooter 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This modern open-world survival FPS delivers radioactive wastelands, lethal anomalies, scarce resources, faction tension, and a similarly grim Slavic mood.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl, the first chapter of the Legends of the Zone Trilogy, which started it all.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 29.8%, FPS 24.3%, Shooter 11.8%, Atmospheric 8.5%, First-Person 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: The enhanced version offers the same landmark Zone survival-FPS experience with a more accessible presentation for players coming from Metro Redux.

Chernobylite is a science-fiction survival horror RPG. Set in the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned wasteland of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, explore a non-linear storyline in your search to uncover the truth of your tortured past.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 36.1%, Stealth 12.9%, Horror 12.5%, Survival Horror 10.4%, Survival 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines a contaminated Eastern European setting with stealth, shooting, survival management, and a personal supernatural story set amid Chernobyl's horrors.

A nuclear disaster has left an area of Britain in tatters. Atomfall, a new survival-action game, will see you explore, scavenge, craft, barter and fight your way through beautifully recreated scenery in search of answers.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 38.1%, FPS 18.6%, First-Person 6.9%, Survival 5.8%, Action 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its eerie British quarantine zone emphasizes scavenging, tense first-person combat, mysteries, and player-led survival in the aftermath of a nuclear disaster.

BioShock is a shooter unlike any other, loaded with unique weapons and tactics. Complete with an arsenal of revolvers, shotguns, and grenade launchers, players will be forced to genetically modify their DNA to become an even deadlier weapon.

Why similar: FPS 32%, Horror 14.7%, Story Rich 12.6%, Atmospheric 11.3%, Shooter 8%

Why You'll Like It: A tightly authored first-person journey through a decaying enclosed society, it pairs atmospheric exploration, unsettling enemies, and narrative-driven combat.

Terminator: Resistance, is a first-person shooter set during the 'Future War' scenario that was only glimpsed at in the iconic films, 'THE TERMINATOR' and 'T2: JUDGMENT DAY'. The machines are destined to lose, but at what cost?

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 38.5%, FPS 25.6%, Story Rich 8.2%, First-Person 6.9%, Atmospheric 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This narrative-focused FPS places you among human survivors fighting machines in a ruined future, with scavenging, stealth, and a convincingly bleak resistance-war atmosphere.

In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.

Why similar: FPS 24%, Horror 15.3%, Stealth 11.5%, Atmospheric 10.7%, Story Rich 10%

Why You'll Like It: Prey offers immersive first-person exploration of a hostile, isolated space station, rewarding cautious resource use, stealth, and environmental problem-solving.

Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 49.9%, FPS 13.2%, Story Rich 7.9%, First-Person 5.8%, Atmospheric 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: Though more RPG-driven, it offers a richly reactive nuclear wasteland full of factions, dangerous ruins, first-person shooting, and memorable post-apocalyptic storytelling.

Prepare for the Future™ With Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, experience the most acclaimed game of 2008 like never before. Create a character of your choosing and descend into an awe-inspiring, post-apocalyptic world where every minute is a fight for survival.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 54.4%, FPS 15.7%, First-Person 6.6%, Atmospheric 4.6%, Story Rich 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Exploring the devastated Capital Wasteland provides a strong blend of lonely ruins, radiation hazards, mutant threats, and first-person post-nuclear adventure.

From Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Starfield and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, comes Fallout 4. A landmark in open-world RPG design and winner of over 200 ‘Best Of’ honors, including the DICE and BAFTA Game of the Year.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 46.1%, FPS 12.7%, Shooter 7.6%, Atmospheric 7.2%, Story Rich 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its ruined-world exploration, modular weapons, irradiated creatures, underground vaults, and environmental storytelling make it a natural broader-scale alternative.

First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 22.1%, FPS 15.4%, Survival Horror 12.1%, Stealth 11.7%, Horror 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person scavenging, tense nighttime horror, improvised weapons, and desperate survival in a collapsed city capture Metro's constant sense of danger.

Amnesia: The Bunker is a first-person horror game set in a WW1 bunker. A relentless, AI-driven monster stalks you. Survival depends on finding tools, crafting items, and keeping the lights on.

Why similar: FPS 18.7%, Stealth 16.7%, Horror 12.9%, Survival Horror 12.6%, Atmospheric 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its oppressive underground setting, limited supplies, unpredictable monster threat, and improvised survival closely match Metro's most nerve-racking stretches.

A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!

Why similar: FPS 23.4%, Horror 14.6%, Survival Horror 10.1%, Atmospheric 7.8%, Shooter 7%

Why You'll Like It: This remake delivers a hostile enclosed environment, scarce resources, unsettling sci-fi horror, and exploratory first-person combat with a strong sense of isolation.

Relive Half-Life.

Why similar: FPS 32.2%, Classic 9.8% ★, Shooter 9.7%, Horror 9.1%, Story Rich 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its polished first-person campaign combines scientific-disaster horror, hostile underground facilities, environmental storytelling, and classic survival-oriented shooting.

Experience the original F.E.A.R. along with F.E.A.R. Extraction Point and F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate.

Why similar: FPS 36.7%, Horror 22.2%, Classic 8.6% ★, Shooter 7%, Atmospheric 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its excellent gunplay and paranormal horror create a tense, dark first-person campaign for players who especially enjoyed Metro's supernatural moments.

Reawakened from stasis in the occupied metropolis of City 17, Gordon Freeman is joined by Alyx Vance as he leads a desperate human resistance. Experience the landmark first-person shooter packed with immersive world-building, boundary-pushing physics, and exhilarating combat.

Why similar: FPS 41.3%, Classic 11.8% ★, Story Rich 9.4%, Shooter 8.6%, First-Person 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: The oppressive occupied-city setting, resistance narrative, atmospheric traversal, and focused first-person action make it a foundational choice for Metro fans.

A demonic invasion has overwhelmed the Union Aerospace Corporation's Mars research facility. As one of only a few survivors, you must fight your way to hell and back against a horde of demons in this award-winning horror/action FPS and reimagining of the original DOOM.

Why similar: FPS 35.1%, Horror 18.3%, Shooter 9.4%, Classic 9.3% ★, First-Person 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its dark corridors, limited visibility, demonic horror, and isolated first-person combat provide another claustrophobic survival-shooter experience.

Wolfenstein®: The New Order reignites the series that created the first-person shooter genre. Wolfenstein offers a deep game narrative packed with action, adventure and first-person combat.

Why similar: FPS 41%, Shooter 10.9%, Stealth 9.8%, First-Person 7.2%, Action 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers a cinematic alternate-history resistance story with strong gunplay, stealth options, brutal occupation imagery, and memorable character-driven downtime.

FIGHT THE PAST TO SAVE THE FUTURE. STOP THE SINGULARITY. Learn the truth behind a massive cover-up of the catastrophic SINGULARITY, an event that fractured time and threatens the world as we know it. Armed with powerful, advanced weaponry and the experimental Time Manipulation Device, fight enemies from the past, the present, and...

Why similar: FPS 42.5%, Horror 12.2%, Shooter 8.4%, Atmospheric 8.3%, Action 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This story-driven FPS mixes Soviet-era ruins, disturbing mutations, supernatural sci-fi, and inventive combat in an atmosphere that complements Metro well.

Embark on a gripping journey in INDUSTRIA, an atmospheric FPS set in Cold War-era East Berlin. Unravel the secrets of a mysterious parallel dimension while searching for a missing colleague. Explore a haunting reality where the truth awaits. Discover the dark past that lies beyond.

Why similar: FPS 31.8%, Horror 13%, Story Rich 11.8%, Shooter 11.7%, Atmospheric 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its short, narrative-driven FPS campaign uses surreal alternate-history Eastern Bloc imagery, lonely exploration, and an unnerving reality-bending atmosphere.

Powered by id’s revolutionary id Tech® 5 technology, RAGE is an intense first-person shooter with breakneck vehicle combat, an expansive world to explore, and jaw-dropping graphics!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 42.6%, FPS 29.4%, Shooter 7%, Action 4.3%, First-Person 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: This wasteland FPS mixes vehicle travel, scavenged technology, bandit-infested ruins, and linear shooter missions in a harsh post-apocalyptic world.

"The Stalin Subway" is a First Person Shooter-style game where the events take place in post-war Moscow. The game allows to plunge into the depressing atmosphere of the Stalin's period and to play as a Soviet officer.

Why similar: FPS 35.5%, Action 18.6%, Shooter 15.6%, First-Person 11.6%, Classic 8.7% ★

Why You'll Like It: Its Soviet underground setting and straightforward single-player shooting make it a rougher but thematically fitting companion to Metro's Moscow tunnels.

Generation Zero is a stealth-action shooter where you wage guerilla warfare against lethal mechanical enemies. Explore a vast open world map inspired by the Swedish Cold War era, take part in the resistance alone or with up to three friends in seamless co-op.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 29.8%, FPS 19.7%, Horror 10.7%, Survival Horror 10.4%, Shooter 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This survival shooter has players scavenge abandoned Scandinavian settlements and fight deadly machines in an unsettling alternate-history apocalypse.

Pathologic 2 is a groundbreaking open-world horror RPG. Resist the plague. Make medicine. Heal people. Perform an autopsy. Trade to get what you need. Fight and kill if necessary. Survive. Struggle with an outbreak in a secluded rural town that is rapidly turning into hell.

Why similar: Story Rich 22.4%, Survival Horror 20.6%, Atmospheric 20.2%, Survival 14.8%, First-Person 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: While less combat-focused, its punishing survival mechanics, desperate resource management, plague-ravaged setting, and oppressive Russian atmosphere evoke Metro's bleak humanity.

RAGE 2 brings together two studio powerhouses – Avalanche Studios, masters of open world insanity, and id Software, creators of the first-person shooter – to deliver a carnival of carnage where you can go anywhere, shoot anything, and explode everything.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 38.1%, FPS 29.8%, Shooter 8.4%, Gore 6.9%, Action 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It trades Metro's restraint for explosive open-world combat but still offers a mutant-ridden wasteland, scavenging, and post-collapse exploration.

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.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 35.7%, FPS 25.7%, Shooter 12.3%, Story Rich 11.6%, First-Person 5.8%

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat follows the story of special service agent Major Degtyarev as he investigates the fate of a lost expedition.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 29.5%, FPS 24.8%, Shooter 12.3%, Atmospheric 8.1%, First-Person 7.9%

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky is the prequel chapter of the Legends of the Zone Trilogy. With the ability to directly influence the balance of power through Faction Wars, step into the boots of Scar — a seasoned mercenary, able to somehow survive deadly Emissions.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 29.1%, FPS 24.9%, Shooter 12.1%, Atmospheric 8.3%, First-Person 7.8%

Z.O.N.A: Origin is an immersive adventure in a harsh post-apocalyptic world. Dive into a captivating story, explore a stunning open world, avoid dangerous anomalies, and hunt for powerful artifacts. Every choice you make can be decisive in this unpredictable world.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 33.8%, Horror 11.8%, Stealth 11.4%, Shooter 10.6%, Story Rich 8.7%

You are a veteran, in a post World War 3 apocalyptic world. Starving and alone, you fight to keep your sanity in the hell that this world has decayed into. In a desperate attempt to find food, you stumble your way into an abandoned prison, but you find out it is not as abandoned as you believed...

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 24.5%, Stealth 13.6%, Horror 11.9%, Survival Horror 11.2%, Atmospheric 7.8%

Wolfenstein®: The Old Blood™ is a standalone prequel to the critically acclaimed first-person action-adventure shooter, Wolfenstein®: The New Order. This adventure spans eight chapters and features the hallmarks of MachineGames – thrilling action, immersive story, and intense FPS combat.

Why similar: FPS 32.7%, Stealth 15.9%, Shooter 10.7%, Gore 7.2%, First-Person 6.5%

In BioShock 2, you step into the boots of the most iconic denizen of Rapture, the Big Daddy, as you explore through the decrepit and beautiful fallen city, chasing an unseen foe in search of answers and your own survival.

Why similar: FPS 34.1%, Horror 13.8%, Story Rich 12.2%, Atmospheric 10%, Shooter 9.9%

You play Adam Jensen, an ex-SWAT specialist who's been handpicked to oversee the defensive needs of one of America's most experimental biotechnology firms. When a black ops team breaks in and kills the very scientists you were hired to protect, everything you thought you knew about your job changes.

Why similar: Stealth 35.1%, FPS 28.7%, Story Rich 11.4%, Action 5.5%, First-Person 5.5%

This is a short story about humanity's last attempt to resist nature. Cities lie in ruins, there are traces of huge claws everywhere - once disturbed by people, giants began to wreak havoc around the world. But is there a solution?...

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 20.9%, FPS 16.7%, Horror 10.7%, Survival Horror 10.2%, Stealth 10.2%

Z.O.N.A Project X - thrilling single-player VR shooter. Explore Chornobyl's exclusion zone, a hazardous apocalyptic world filled with anomalies. Survive using your weapons, scavenge for resources, and save humanity from doom.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 32.7%, Shooter 11.1%, Horror 10.7%, Stealth 10.3%, Survival Horror 7.9%

In a mad and sublime utopian world, take part in explosive encounters. Adapt your fighting style to each opponent, use your environment and upgrade your equipment to fulfill your mission. If you want to reach the truth, you'll have to pay in blood.

Why similar: FPS 30.4%, Horror 16.7%, Shooter 12.9%, First-Person 10%, Atmospheric 8.1%

Explore Westminster, London on a journey to the ruins of Hanwell. Fight with whatever you can find or use the environment to defend yourself against an ever increasing scourge of Anomalies.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 19.7%, Horror 14%, FPS 13.4%, Survival Horror 11.8%, Shooter 10.2%

Into the Radius is a single-player survival shooter in VR. Explore the Pechorsk zone filled with surreal landscapes and dangerous anomalies. Defend yourself with realistic firearms, recover strange artifacts, scavenge for loot, and uncover the mysteries of this unforgiving dystopian environment.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 25.4%, FPS 21%, Horror 10.7%, Survival 7.5%, Stealth 7.2%

Moscow: somewhere in the near future. The city and perhaps the Earth's surface has turned into a radioactive ash. Those who decided that they could not exist in such conditions began to live under the ground.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 49.9%, Story Rich 16.7%, Atmospheric 10.1%, Classic 8.5% ★, Survival 5.6%

New York, 2034: you wake up after what seemed to be a terrible nightmare, while it is not. The district has been evacuated and isolated overnight by the army, after an electrical meteor shower hit the Earth. Fight, explore, survive, and try to escape from this hell!

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 23.1%, FPS 18.9%, Stealth 11%, Shooter 9.7%, Horror 8.8%

Project Crypt: The horror adventure about escaping a city overrun by monsters.

Why similar: FPS 20.5%, Post-apocalyptic 18.3%, Horror 12.2%, Survival Horror 11.6%, Story Rich 8.7%

Discover the award-winning game that inspired the critically acclaimed television show. Guide Joel and Ellie through a post-apocalyptic America, and encounter unforgettable allies and enemies in The Last of Us™.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 34.7%, Horror 12.3%, Story Rich 11.8%, Survival Horror 10.1%, Shooter 9.5%

BioShock is a shooter unlike any you've ever played, loaded with weapons and tactics never seen. You'll have a complete arsenal at your disposal from simple revolvers to grenade launchers and chemical throwers, but you'll also be forced to genetically modify your DNA to create an even more deadly weapon: you.

Why similar: FPS 35.6%, Story Rich 12%, Horror 11.8%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Shooter 7.4%

From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.

Why similar: Horror 22.8%, Survival Horror 17.5%, Story Rich 14.1%, Atmospheric 13.8%, First-Person 10.3%

Tunguska: The Visitation is a single player top-down shooter RPG. Seek fortune as a Ghoul Hunter in an abandoned Soviet Exclusion Zone. Use your grit and ingenuity to survive deadly radiation, mysterious anomalies, and poisonous mutants. Go in guns-blazing, or stay in the shadows - your choice.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 38.8%, Stealth 16.7%, Survival Horror 10.3%, Survival 9.1%, Atmospheric 7.9%

Explore a hostile, living world: Uncover forgotten horrors, both man-made and supernatural, as you hunt for powerful weapons and exotic artifacts.

Why similar: FPS 21.5%, Post-apocalyptic 19.8%, Stealth 11%, Horror 11%, Survival Horror 9.8%

In 2013 the Central Europe (Ukraine, Kiev) witnessed a catastrophe. Everybody was mystified by its cause. What happened was beyond our comprehension. Somebody called it the collision of worlds or the stratification of two dimensions.

Why similar: Post-apocalyptic 54.8%, Action 16.2%, Atmospheric 10.4%, Shooter 10.3%, Adventure 5.3%

Pathologic Classic HD is the Definitive Edition of the original Cult Classic Psychological First-Person Survival game. In this unforgettable experience, players control one of three unique characters as they try to save a mysterious town from a deadly plague that cannot be stopped.

Why similar: Story Rich 21.2%, Atmospheric 20.5%, Horror 15.5%, Survival 13.2%, First-Person 9.5%

NEDRA is a story-driven, atmospheric action-adventure blending survival horror with cosmic terror. Set in a Soviet-era Antarctic station, all the explorers have vanished without a trace, leaving you to uncover the chilling truth.

Why similar: FPS 22.1%, Stealth 14.8%, Horror 12.6%, Survival Horror 11.5%, Story Rich 9.4%