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While it was playable with the Steam Play Proton compatibility layer, 4A Games and Deep Silver have today officially released Metro Exodus for Linux.

"Metro Exodus is an epic, story-driven first person shooter from 4A Games that blends deadly combat and stealth with exploration and survival horror in one of the most immersive game worlds ever created. Explore the Russian wilderness across vast, non-linear levels and follow a thrilling story-line that spans an entire year through spring, summer and autumn to the depths of nuclear winter."

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Game Features:

  • Embark on an incredible journey - board the Aurora, a heavily modified steam locomotive, and join a handful of survivors as they search for a new life in the East
  • Experience Sandbox Survival - a gripping story links together classic Metro gameplay with new huge, non-linear levels
  • A beautiful, hostile world - discover the post-apocalyptic Russian wilderness, brought to life with stunning day / night cycles and dynamic weather
  • Deadly combat and stealth - scavenge and craft in the field to customize your arsenal of hand-made weaponry, and engage human and mutant foes in thrilling tactical combat
  • Your choices determine your comrades’ fate - not all your companions will survive the journey; your decisions have consequence in a gripping storyline that offers massive re-playability
  • The ultimate in atmosphere and immersion - a flickering candle in the darkness; a ragged gasp as your gasmask frosts over; the howl of a mutant on the night wind - Metro will immerse and terrify you like no other game…

As a reminder here's the specifications suggested for the Linux port:

Since Metro Exodus supports Ray Tracing on Linux, expect to need a powerful GPU to get good framerates in it.

Giveaway (CLOSED)

To go along with the release, a kind reader has offered up three copies to give away! These will be sent as a Steam Gift, so once winners are picked they will need to provide their Steam account for us to friend and then gift the copies. How to enter? Simply make it clear in your comment you wish to win a copy and winners will be picked Friday, April 16. Note: giveaway now closed!

Note: as of right now, it looks like they haven't sorted out all the key depots on Steam, meaning not everyone will actually be able to download the Linux version until they attach it all up correctly on Steam. It's a common pitfall we wrote about before to help developers. Update: this should now be solved.

If you find you have some audio popping, adding this as launch option may solve it:

PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60 %command%

You can buy it on Fanatical (on sale), Humble Store, and Steam

Here's some initial footage from the Linux port running on Ultra at 1080p. Recording did reduce the performance:

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GinGk0 Apr 14, 2021
Would love to win a key ! That would allow me to properly test my new RX6700XT !
Firecatmon Apr 14, 2021
Yes I would like a copy!
drmoth Apr 14, 2021
Hey Liam, does the fanatical key count as a Linux purchase?
F.Ultra Apr 14, 2021
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Fantastic news. Will buy a copy myself so no need to be included in any give-away.
denyasis Apr 14, 2021
I'd love to have a copy as well!!

Funny, I opened up the front page and saw this had 100+ comments and thought worst, lol. Glad I was wrong!
trawzified Apr 14, 2021
Coming out of my lurking spot to mention I'd like to participate in the giveaway too :P Would be a nice birthday present.
superpinguin Apr 14, 2021
i want a copy !
rezzafri Apr 15, 2021
Thank you generous reader, would love to have it.
DarthLeo Apr 15, 2021
Nice to see linux support.

Count me in on the giveaway!
HyperRealisticRock Apr 15, 2021
I would love to win a key.

Cheers to the awesome person offering the keys.
holisticboy Apr 15, 2021
First of all, pro move on the giveaway (that super thoughtful)

I'd love a copy of the game!

Edit: I actually bought it myself, so count me out on the copy!


Last edited by holisticboy on 15 April 2021 at 1:56 am UTC
edenist Apr 15, 2021
Oooo, I've certainly been looking forward to this. Glad to see 4A actually came through for us with a native release! :-D

And oh yes, I'd certainly oblige to a free copy if one was available! Count me in to the competition.
a0kami Apr 15, 2021
I do not wish to win a copy as I want to support the devs for such behaviour directly, though that's nice and I would gladly contribute to see this kind of copy winning event more often!
mahagr Apr 15, 2021
I would love to get a copy. I've been waiting to test ray tracing in Linux as my daughters computer has RTX 2060 Super (while I'm stuck with 1080 Ti while waiting prices to go down... forever?)

I'm really happy that Feral is still doing Linux ports as their games tend to perform a bit better than Windows binaries.
Jahimself Apr 15, 2021
I would love to see the third metro episode. Would also love to see how it's raytracing behave on linux with my hardly acquiered rtx.
gojul Apr 15, 2021
alright so game refuses to launch natively for me... but if i launch it via proton it runs just fine -_-

If you have a NVidia GPU make sure the following file is present :
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnvidia-rtcore.so.[driver_version]

You can get it from your package manager. For Debian it is in package libnvidia-rtcore. For Ubuntu it is on package libnvidia-gl-[your_driver_version]. For other distros, you get the idea...
https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal-updates/amd64/libnvidia-gl-460/filelist
babai Apr 15, 2021
Metro is an awesome series! I'd really like to have a copy of this.
Gryxx Apr 15, 2021
Hi. Wish to enter giveaway.
StalePopcorn Apr 15, 2021
Reinstalled, plays beautifully! 2560x1440 Manjaro KDE kernel 5.11.x, i7-8700K, 5700XT, latest mesa release
Comandante Ñoñardo Apr 15, 2021
Is the benchmark tool included?
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