If the irradiated surface runs in Metro 2033—mask fogging, Geiger crackle, and sprinting between safe spots—hooked you, you'll feel that same chill in The Road. You follow a father and son pushing a cart through ash-choked highways and gutted towns, facing the same brutal calculus Artyom weighs after VDNKh falls under threat: what must be sacrificed to keep moving. The moral knife-edges that echo the Library run or the Red Line standoff are here, stripped to bone, making every choice as harrowing as calling in those missiles from Ostankino.

If you were fascinated by the Metro’s micro-civilizations—Hanza’s trade rules, the Red Line’s ideology, the Fourth Reich checkpoints—and Artyom’s trek from VDNKh to Polis through that web, Wool gives you a whole silo’s worth of it. Its levels mirror stations, its taboos echo the Metro’s superstitions about tunnels and anomalies, and its political intrigue feels like slipping past Reich patrols to reach Polis. You’ll get the same pleasure of decoding a closed system where one breach in protocol can doom everyone.

If the dark tone of Metro 2033—from the nightmare chants in the tunnels to the terrifying Librarians—kept you rapt, The Girl With All the Gifts sustains that same pressure. Like Artyom and Khan weighing terrible options in haunted stations, Melanie, Caldwell, and Parks face choices where every path is stained. The set-pieces carry the same dread as crossing the surface to the Library: tight, perilous, and ethically thorny, right up to an ending that rethinks what 'salvation' means.

If Artyom’s crawl through collapsed tubes, ghost-ridden galleries, and the Library’s stacks made you love the Metro’s suffocating terror, The Descent plunges even deeper. Expedition teams descend into a vast underworld where every meter is contested—like edging past anomalies with Khan or slipping beneath the Red Line’s noses. The constant fear of what’s around the bend recalls facing Librarians by avoiding eye contact; survival hinges on ritual and nerve in the dark.

If Artyom’s mission—threading from VDNKh to Polis to the Ostankino tower, dodging Reich patrols and deadly anomalies—grabbed you, Roadside Picnic sharpens that into a single razor trek. Stalker Redrick Schuhart slips into the Zone, navigating traps like the 'meat grinder' on a quest for the Golden Sphere, with the same charged uncertainty as Artyom confronting the Dark Ones. Every step feels like crossing a cursed tunnel: rules whispered, stakes immense, and the prize morally ambiguous.