METAL EDEN

A really great movement shooter with amazing visuals, punchy weapons, and slick movement. But in its current state (and likely the state it will remain in, seeing as it hasn't received so much as a bug fix update in 5 months) the game is incredibly broken--bugged achievements, soft locks that still persist even after restarting a whole level, corrupted save files, the whole lot. At this point it's a tossup whether you'll be given a pleasant, smooth experience with no real issues or one riddled with bugs that discourage you from even playing the game. In my case, it was the latter. Also, two massive issues are apparently constant throughout everyone's experience: one, the NG+ mode is completely broken, not letting you past a red wall in Level 2, and two, the game creates absolutely massive log files in the AppData folder for no apparent reason (the folder on my disk was nearly 20 GB somehow).

Do not bother with this lazy, unoptimized trash. Game runs very poorly with constant framedrops, mouse input is floaty and heavily delayed, controls are often unresponsive and janky, there's a ton of various bugs. No matter how much time I spend in the settings, it just feels like a nightmare to play. I've got 450h in Doom Eternal and around 100h in Ghostrunner 1/2, Metal Eden's two biggest inspirations and I struggled to finish the first level, the difficulty is just absurd. Encounters feel like a chore to play through, you spend so much time jumping around with no weapons to use, just waiting for cooldowns to finish. The lack of polish is noticeable in every facet of this game. Visual design is generic, unispired and overall ugly, there's so much washed metallic grey. Levels are a bunch of corridors leading to arenas, barely any exploration to speak of. The gameplay is a poor copy of Doom Eternal combat with Ghostrunner platforming in between. Don't buy this crap.

The gameplay is good and energetic — a mix of Doom and Metroid. 8 hours of non‑stop action in a cyberpunk style! The plot is so‑so. If in the sequel, as in Doom, armor is depleted first and only then HP, and not simultaneously, and the plot isn’t about women being oppressed and persecuted by self‑absorbed losers, then I’ll buy it.

gunplay & movement is very fluid. like it.

This is a dooms-like game in a sci-fi environment. Even in normal mode, game is a bit on the tougher side. Basically, you are running one objective to another, and killing everything on the way and in-between. You get upgrades for completing these missions and collect money that you can use to upgrade your weapons, which usually have alternative fire that is stronger but eats more ammo, it is not straight upgrade though, it changes how gun operates. Story is told through comm channel while you are progressing but to be honest, I am not sure I heard everything in the heat of it. I am more than half-way through. You are doing wall-runs, ziplines etc throughout the complex and usually they are OK, not too frustrating. I don't think I will go for Steam achievements, but if you do, you need to play in brutal difficulty and find collectibles called one-ups, and not die to lose them. Guns are I think OK. Some of the supposedly more powerful ones did not really impress me, but shotgun and energy weapon you get back to back were really nice! It can be quite stressful, but if you are into genre, you will probably like it!

Fricking Nerds!!

Unfortunately Steam doesn't have a "meh" review. Great theme and gameplay, similar to Doom 2016. Story is ok-ish, and the exposition *during* gameplay makes it harder to follow if you're busy killing enemies. Achievements are bugged, New Game + is still broken on Mission 2. It's a game that you basically play once and forget. It took me ~6h to finish on Normal. If you're interested, better get on *deep* discount like 5 USD or less.

METAL EDEN is a pretty good game. It plays a lot like Doom 2016, but leans more into the cyberpunk aesthetic of sci-fi. The weapons and traversal are interesting, the graphics are good, and the gameplay was fun overall. I did not like the enemy armor mechanic. Many enemies are armored and certain weapons are required to effectively deal with them. Often times, I found myself not being able to use the weapon I wanted to use due to it not being effective against armor and I didn't really like any of the armor-busting weapons. You can upgrade all weapons to have secondary abilities and some of those are particularly effective against armor, but, overall, I think the game would have been better without this extra mechanic as it just turned into a limitation for me. The game is about 7-8 hours in length, which is not bad. There's not an engrossing story here and the gameplay is fast and fun, not deep, so I think the length is about right. In summary, I'd say the game was fun and worth checking out, especially if you like fast and mobile FPS action. 7/10.