Someone help me with the plot

[MrSkinny]

I'm enjoying this as a VR shooter with tactile mechanics, clever inventory management, and pretty good stealth combat. But the plot is completely baffling. I've been searching online for a full plot writeup but can't find anything.

Would someone who has completed the game post a full summary of what happens? The game is just a haze of hallucinations, flashbacks, supposed time jumps, ghosts in your ear. I get the confusion vibe, but I'd love a real analysis of what any of it is about.

It reminds me of Silent Hill 2. I start out as a dude looking for his wife who may or may not be dead and 8 hours in, I'm still in the same place with no more concrete information.

[Alienme]

Short summary without spoilers: The plot involves your character finding out who he really is and coming to terms with his truth about the Metro.

[MrSkinny]

Originally posted by Alienme:

Short summary without spoilers: The plot involves your character finding out who he really is and coming to terms with his truth about the Metro.

Can I get a long summary with spoilers? :)

[Alienme]

Sure, however i want to point out to anyone else reading who has not finished the game (and cares about the story) to not read this:


Your character starts his story losing a battle in his metro station, resulting in the death of everyone there. After this you find yourself 10 years later in a new station as a doctor. You have to help your wife get medicine as she is hearing the voice of her dead child which is causing her a lot of issues. You seek this medicine but dont find it, and your wife not wanting to be a cause of issue anymore flees the station to find her son who she still believes is alive.

You spend a lot of time following her, finding her captured by slavers, only to lose her again.

you find yourself perplexed by several... supernatural events that you continue to try to rationalize. All of these wearing you down to the point you feel you are either schizophrenic or seeing/hearing ghosts. Add to this visions of sacrificing your own wife to the great worm, and you really start having anxiety

At some point you find yourself coming to terms with this after you realize a young woman you have been speaking to over the radio.. is in fact a ghost herself. She did not know this herself, until you both experience some events together. You end up unexpectedly reuniting her with the spirit of her lost love... and this moment bring you realization of things you had suppressed/not recognized when you first experienced them. Essentially, now you have purpose and an idea where to go now to find your wife.

Along this newfound path, you meet... the ghost of your wife's lost son whom she has been seeking. He isnt sure about you because he doesnt remember his mom ever talking about you, however he becomes your guide through the metro as he can hear his moms voice and guides you to where she is. Along the way he realizes that he does know you, its just that his mom never used your actual name, she called you "Khan" because she believes you are the reincarnation of Ghengis Khan. This journey takes you through the deeper tunnels and into the bowels of the worshipers of the great worm... a malevolent force that rushed through metro lines and devours the souls of those who have died and wander the metro. you have to leave your wife's son safely behind while you continue on to find your wife, so that the worm does not devour him.

You end up finding your wife after being captured by the worm worshipers, and she is on an altar set to be sacrificed. you have seen some of this in your visions, however the actual events play out differently... and she is killed by their priest which causes a tremor in the metro freeing you and damaging the area somewhat. you can now see and hear the ghost of your wife and you let her know you did in fact find her son and you are sorry for ever doubting her. You have to flee the worm people, and the worm, with her trying to keep her from being devoured. In the chaos, you cause an explosion which collapses that tunnel and seems to have stymied the great worms efforts, at least for now.

At last you arrive back at the terminus station, which is a beautiful metro station near the surface, and your wife and her son are reunited at last... where they lost each other years ago. As they re-unite and ultimately say their goodbyes to you and leave, you realize that you may never know everything, but you are now starting to understand that there is more to the universe, and the Metro, than you may ever fully grasp. And thats ok.

[Alienme]

If it wasnt obvious, this is essentially an "origin story" for the character from the previous games and the books, "Khan"

[MrSkinny]

Excellent synopsis, thank you! You should publish that to one of the wikis.

Yeah I came in with zero Metro knowledge, so the recognition of an origin story would be lost on me. It’s an oddly fantastical story with spiritual / magical elements for what on the surface appears such a gritty, and grounded, classic post-apocalypse landscape.

[BS_100]

Was interesting for me too, thanks. But I'm still curious about on thing:

What was Yana's intention in the first place when she sneaked out of the home station?

Did she really want to kill herself so that she could be reunited with her son in the afterlife?

Did she even agree with the occultists that she would be sacrificed? Or was it against her will?

Either way; isn't it pretty crazy that she's simply letting her husband down with this act?