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Metro: Last Light Redux
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 7h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending at least 51% of players who started
Started playing 83% of owners
Steam reviews 91% positive of 82,534
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 3 reviews are negative (30%); after 10h it's 1 in 15 (6%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- At least 51% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “Clean Escape”: only 83% of starters get there.
- 83% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 82,964 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 295 reviews: 11.2h for positive, 13.2h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (83.2% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Clean Escape Escape the chasing Nazis on the REICH level without being caught once. Most players quit here 83% −17
- Within a Hair of Death Escape from the Red Line. 80% −2
- Freedom! Free the Prisoners. 67% −14
- Secret Find out about the Reds' plans. 63% −4
- Revelation Make Moskvin tell the truth with help from the Dark One. 61% −2
- C'est la vie Destroy D6. ≥51% −10
story milestone ending (most common ending) biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (49)
story milestone ending side
- Rabbit Complete training sequence. 100%
- Veteran Choose three primary weapons that use different ammo. 89%
- Clean Escape Escape the chasing Nazis on the REICH level without being caught once. 83%
- Within a Hair of Death Escape from the Red Line. 80%
- Engineer Use 10 Lever Switches. 79%
- Soldier Kill 100 Human Enemies. 77%
- Shadow Stealthily kill 15 Enemies. 75%
- Air! Spend 30 minutes' worth of Filters. 74%
- Antibiotic Kill 100 Mutants. 70%
- Freedom! Free the Prisoners. 67%
- Mouse Complete the ECHOES level undetected by the Watchmen. 66%
- Big Momma Kill the Rhino. 66%
- Secret Find out about the Reds' plans. 63%
- Revelation Make Moskvin tell the truth with help from the Dark One. 61%
- Edison Turn off 40 Lights without breaking them. 57%
- Pyromaniac Burn 50 Cobwebs. 52%
- C'est la vie Destroy D6. 51%
- Forest Guardian Save the Bear from the Watchmen after the fight. 47%
- Reunion Find and return the crying child's Teddy Bear. 42%
- Tortoise Make 10 Spiders flip belly-up. 39%
- Survivor 2034 Complete the game in Survival Mode. 38%
- Not A Rabbit Finish the ASHES level without taking a hit. 35%
- Commando Rescue the Women and Children on the BANDITS level without raising alarm. 34%
- Spartan 2034 Complete the game in Spartan Mode. 32%
- Patron of the Arts Watch the entire Theater Show. 29%
- Scram Kill the Watchmen attacking the Railcar without taking any damage. 28%
- Revenge Kill Pavel. 26%
- Savior Remove your mask when Lesnitsky demands it. 20%
- Cheers! Drink at every occasion. 20%
- Back to the Past See all Visions in the Dead City. 19%
- No shooting allowed Kill 10 enemies in a row with Throwing Knives. 19%
- Master Thief Open 10 locked safe boxes. 19%
- Redemption Save D6. 18%
- Ever Vigilant Disarm 10 Traps. 17%
- Invisible Savior Complete the FACILITY level without killing or raising alarm. 16%
- Derailed Kill all armed enemies on the REVOLUTION level, including all reinforcements. 15%
- Hail Reich! Complete the HEAVY SQUAD level. 14%
- Invisible Soldier Complete the REVOLUTION level without killing and raising an alarm. 14%
- The Sunset of Hope Complete the ANNA level. 14%
- Heads Up! Complete the PAVEL level. 13%
- No Way Out Complete the KHAN level. 12%
- Invisible Intruder Complete the SEPARATION level without killing or raising alarm. 12%
- Saboteur Complete the SNIPER TEAM level. 12%
- Through the Fire Complete the SPIDER LAIR level. 11%
- Rain Man Complete the BRIDGE level without a kill. 11%
- Kshatriya Complete the KSHATRIYA level. 8.4%
- Published Complete all 43 of Artyom's hidden Diary pages. 7.3%
- Developer Spend 1 hour on the DEVELOPER level. 7.2%
- Test Complete Complete the TOWER level. 6.4%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.