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Metal Garden
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Travel through an overgrown megastructure, and discover what lies beyond it. Metal Garden is a short, atmospheric singleplayer FPS game. From the Steam store page
469 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
95
LovedLoved
341 positive · 19 negative
95% range 92–97%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 341 | 19 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 71 | 0 | 34 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Overwhelmingly Positive
3,664 of 3,788 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
95% recommend · 280 yes, 16 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 296 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Overwhelmingly Positive (4,540 of 4,700 positive).
Players praise the game's atmosphere and sense of scale. [1][2][3] Many compare it to works like BLAME! and Half-Life. [4][5][6] Some find it too short or lacking in depth. [7][8][9]
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Representative posts
- [7]
Metal Garden is a game that tries to be something it doesn't understand. When you start a new game, you are greeted by a short paragraph that reminds you of the fact that you will be exploring a massive "megastructure". This word will be repeated all throughout the game, be it in logs found scattered across the levels or said by characters that will speak to you or among themselves. It feels as if Metal Garden is …
- [1]
A very concise and idiosyncratic experience that really channels the inner energy of Shadow of the Colossus and source-engine/valve’s stylistic designs; minimalist down to its core, quiet and elegant simplicity about traveling a strange, empty landscape with a monumental megastructure at the front and center - becoming more and more unfathomable and incomprehensible the further you progress!! The world itself …
- [16]
The word "perfect," as a scoring term, is not something I like to throw around. Mostly because I don't think anyone actually knows what perfect means. Yet, it is the word that comes to mind after I finished Metal Garden. To be clear, when I say that Metal Garden is perfect, what I mean is that everything the game sets out to do, even if it's limited and potentially not to the degree of quality or depth intended by …
- [3]
The quote from Godspeed You! Black Emperor's track describes Metal Garden perfectly: "We're trapped in this belly of this horrible machine, and it's bleeding to death". It is so surprising, that such short game like this is full of so many lovely details - layout of every single map is interesting, and it helps out to feel how small the player is in this giant station made of concrete. Environment design also helps …
- [2]
If Blame and Texhnolyze had a lovechild in game-form, I feel like this is it. Also, the sense of scale is so good, like each new place you poke your head into makes you go, "Wait, how BIG is this area?" (all without feeling bloated/etc.)
Summarised from 34 of the 386 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
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Metal Garden sits at 95% positive across 360 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Reactions
60 of 469 · most liked firstI can't believe how much time has snuck up on me, but today is already one year anniversary of Metal Garden's release! (It's also 30% off right now for the Steam Spring Sale!!) store.steampowered.com/app/3539440/...
neutral · AI labelView post →Great, however there's an it's/its typo on the final terminal, so it's basically unplayable /j
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →hiiiii, Metal Garden is on sale right now both on Steam and Itch dot io! if you ever wanted to buy it, now's a really good time! store.steampowered.com/app/3539440/... tinerasoft.itch.io/metal-garden
neutral · AI labelView post →Metal Garden is on Steam front page as part of today's Daily Deal! It's also at it's lowest price ever! I hope you enjoy it! :) store.steampowered.com/app/3539440/...
neutral · AI labelView post →Day 679 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing. Today's game is one called Metal Garden. I saw it on the steam front page, and against my better judgement I bought it completely blind. Surprisingly I'm enjoying it. The only way I can think to describe it is how Fallout New Vegas *felt* to me when I was younger. I have little blips of memories not of the funny moments, but the almost eerie alone moments that the game had. Being alone in an abandoned mega structure,…
positive · AI labelView post →playing Metal Garden, a pretty short n simple lil shooter / exploration game that also happens to just Look Like This.
positive · AI labelView post →Hi there! I'm currently working on Metal Garden, a short, atmospheric fps game where you travel through an overgrown megastructure. You can check it out here on itch: alexandra-ht.itch.io/metal-garden
neutral · AI labelView post →Made an Auto Aim system for today's Metal Garden update, which automatically locks player weapon onto enemy character nearest to screen center. If you ever wanted to play the game, but have issues with aiming in first person games, this should hopefully make the experience a lot more accessible :)
neutral · AI labelView post →I did an interview with August about development of Metal Garden! If you wanna read about some inspirations behind the game or what the production was like, you can check it out now on August's website! itsalwaysaugusthere.substack.com/p/metal-gard...
neutral · AI labelView post →after having little time to play for half a year sometimes i wonder lately if i even like games anymore but i have been wowed by awesomely gray game Metal Garden which deeply understands jumping through cool 3d spaces and also there are cheetah men there
positive · AI labelView post →This is also probably the last major update for Metal Garden that I have planned, as I'm trying to dedicate much more time from now on towards working on my next game :)
neutral · AI labelView post →Metal Garden, a game by @aleksandraht.bsky.social, is coming to Nintendo Switch™ on September 1st! Travel through an overgrown megastructure, and discover what lies beyond it...Will you find your way through? Announcement Trailer: youtu.be/Zqw6odXj4hQ
neutral · AI labelView post →Doing my annual thing of telling everyone I know to buy and play one particular PC indie game, in this case Metal Garden by @aleksandraht.bsky.social - a really fun, atmospheric little FPS with some great level design
positive · AI labelView post →been watching some of this- because I'm too scared of heights to play it- and it's gooooooooorgeous. this is such a fascinating game and gameplay setup feels a bit like a sibling to Metal Garden
neutral · AI labelView post →A very concise and idiosyncratic experience that really channels the inner energy of Shadow of the Colossus and source-engine/valve’s stylistic designs; minimalist down to its core, quiet and elegant simplicity about traveling a strange, empty landscape with a monumental megastructure at the front and center - becoming more and more unfathomable and incomprehensible the further you progress!! The world itself opening up as the history of the environments/atmosphere tells you the stories of the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game has come to me at the perfect time in my life when I am at a crossroads and constantly trying to decide the next, and best step forward for my family. We are in between two countries and having to choose the right place to raise a family can be a huge weight on myself and my wife. Playing this game made me almost get to live inside of this purgatory I find myself in some days. The massive, grey, concrete, foggy, confusing place that has become my reality lately. This game hit me in my…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The developers have taken a lot of what made shooters in the 2000s great and recreated it in this game. It is so good that by the end it feels too short.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A short megastructure exploration / FPS game for all your BLAME needs
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is "BLAME!" put to video game with added combat. It's a fantastic game, especially the ending 👍 i luv it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Metal Garden (2025, @aleksandraht.bsky.social) Brutalism sickos are drooling at the mouth at this game (this includes me). Fantastic level design reminiscent of Halo CE and other classic FPS games I haven't played, rewarding lots of exploration. Gunplay feels good. Lore is intriguing. Good game.
positive · AI labelView post →The word "perfect," as a scoring term, is not something I like to throw around. Mostly because I don't think anyone actually knows what perfect means. Yet, it is the word that comes to mind after I finished Metal Garden. To be clear, when I say that Metal Garden is perfect, what I mean is that everything the game sets out to do, even if it's limited and potentially not to the degree of quality or depth intended by the creator, is executed to such a high standard that no improvement is needed.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If Blame and Texhnolyze had a lovechild in game-form, I feel like this is it. Also, the sense of scale is so good, like each new place you poke your head into makes you go, "Wait, how BIG is this area?" (all without feeling bloated/etc.)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm yet to see a game which is described by this Godspeed You! Black Emperor quote better than Metal Garden: "We're trapped in this belly of this horrible machine, and it's bleeding to death".
neutral · AI labelView post →Metal Garden eShop page is live! You can now add it to your wishlist: sourcemacchiato.com/mg-switch Metal Garden will be available on Nintendo Switch on September 1st 2026! Note: for Asian countries, the game will be released on September 3rd, following the regular eShop release calendar.
neutral · AI labelView post →here in my metal garden just got this new sniper rifle here, fun to jump around here in the metal garden but you know what i like alot more than gameplay? knowledge.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Metal Garden is a game that tries to be something it doesn't understand. When you start a new game, you are greeted by a short paragraph that reminds you of the fact that you will be exploring a massive "megastructure". This word will be repeated all throughout the game, be it in logs found scattered across the levels or said by characters that will speak to you or among themselves. It feels as if Metal Garden is insecurely trying to convince you of what it's supposed to be. And,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So compelling. I don't care to complain about or critique any part of it because its strengths are just so overbearing. Sent me back to reading short stories when I was younger and imagining impossible worlds. Existential cold sweats included. 10/10, no notes.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Losing all your health in Metal Garden doesn't necessarily spell the end of the game. Instead, you can continue playing while incurring an injury (eg. shoulder injury makes your aim down sights uneven, etc).
neutral · AI labelView post →We should have a name for game subgenre in which the introductory screen is so freaking good that it has you instantly glued to the screen. (These are in order Paradise Killer, Iron Lung and Metal Garden, which was the one I was playing right now).
positive · AI labelView post →I love how the concrete sky in Metal Garden looks. It's such an evocative visual, and matched with the overcast grey and green muted tones of the game it's just 🤌
positive · AI labelView post →It's like a very bite-sized BLAME! in the form of an old FPS campaign. I get that not every game involving megastructures goes for the same feel, but I'd say this game does it better than NaissanceE and the latter half of Lorn's Lure, simply because I find the idea of a megastructure having something going on inside of it much more appealing than endless exploration as the last human/robot alive or whatever. BLAME! is as much covering the diameter of Jupiter on foot as it is shooting someone's…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Metal Garden is now available on the Nintendo eShop! We hope you will enjoy playing it as much as we enjoyed working on it. page: sourcemacchiato.com/mg-switch If you want to report a bug, or just chat with the community: discord.gg/fukjJ3JXxG
neutral · AI labelView post →Alright. Metal Garden is done and dusted. This is a true megastructure game in every sense. As the product page states, you are a nomad whose vehicle breaks down. You are thus forced to wander about on foot within this megastructure, which is essentially a sealed world with its own ecosystem and the remains of countless forgotten civilizations that have grown and died within this megastructure. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3762311614 Unfortunately (or fortunately)…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It surprised me to read this game was made in Unreal Engine 5. We're used to read about that engine in association with different things: Big budgets, bad performance, a specific look, etc. Metal Garden was made in UE5, but it doesn't check any of those boxes. For me, perhaps unfairly, the words Unreal Engine 5 are usually associated with games designed by a committee. Games made in a conference room where a Powerpoint presentation reads the protagonist's shirt should be slightly blueish…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The quote from Godspeed You! Black Emperor's track describes Metal Garden perfectly: "We're trapped in this belly of this horrible machine, and it's bleeding to death". It is so surprising, that such short game like this is full of so many lovely details - layout of every single map is interesting, and it helps out to feel how small the player is in this giant station made of concrete. Environment design also helps out to make it even more expressive - the station is so hostile, mostly…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Metal Garden is one of the best things I've played this year, full stop Beautifully atmospheric with incredible environment design. A short and sweet burst of a kind of "middle-era" FPS we don't see that often right now. Feels like a lost PS2 hidden gem store.steampowered.com/app/3539440/...
positive · AI labelView post →Played 'Metal Garden' on Steam yesterday and really enjoyed this little indie gem. I got inspired to make my own fan-made 3D model based on the “Log Devices” you find in the game. Thank you @aleksandraht.bsky.social for such a awesome game! #metalgarden #indie #fanart
positive · AI labelView post →I really don't know how to describe it outside of Half-Life 1 meets Shadow of the Colossus? Excellent visual aesthetics with really gripping exploration where optional and main paths are both so fleshed out that it's often really difficult to tell which is which. As someone who is sick of roguelike game design, the carefully curated level design here is a breath of fresh air from the indie scene. A steal at $6.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fantasy. What does that word even mean. Shorthand for people with swords, tall nobles with pointy ears called elves, bulky humans with green skin called orcs, yadda yadda. Give me something actually fantastical. A world where everybody's born with a second head sticking out of their left shoulder. A world where all living beings are three dimentional projections of some kind of incomprehensible divinity. A world where time doesn't flow forward, so everybody's constantly readjusting all events…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun game, definitely a neesh game, started to watch Jackscepticeye video but then I decided why not play it myself so I did. I really like the topic of mega structures, again they're kinda neesh but really cool nonetheless. edit: Definitely a Kneesh game... *Spoiler* I was surprised by the boss at the end, luckily I saved 12 grenades although most of em missed
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Travel through an overgrown megastructure, and discover what lies beyond it. Metal Garden is a short, atmospheric singleplayer FPS game. Learn more in our full review: somanygames.co.uk/review/metal... Review by: @dovetail.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →For the creator(s): Thank you for making this game and being creative. I have ideas like this but never put them into words or art like this.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"No heavenly fields awaited us beyond the structure... and no God to fill our empty stomachs." Metal Garden is a one of a kind game from a certain type of FPS genre long gone. It is extremely reminiscent of Half-Life in the sense that the game's atmosphere, as well as overall tone invokes the state of loneliness in the mass megastructure that the game takes place in. As for any player of the Half-Life series, they would know straight off the start that Metal Garden absolutely encourages…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Am I missing something? Am I actually just too stupid to appreciate the Halo Brutalism game? Are my dopamine receptors too dulled to find joy in anything less than completely saturating to the cones in my eyes? For $5 I cannot be mad, but its about 1 hour on average difficulty. Enviornment's blend into one another in a hazy gumbo that I cannot find satisfying in any sense. The level designs are intelligent enough, not what most would consider a puzzle, but at least something to break up the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I stumbled across a youtube video that mentioned megastructures in games, and from the very first scene that displayed the game, I paused and went blindly to buy it because the atmosphere sold it to me. Best blind buy ever! A great game, especially for a solo developer. The sense of scale and magnitude is definitely well made. The combat is intentionally forgiving, I don't think I died in any playthrough as long as you do basic management of resources. That is not meant as a downside, since…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →BLAME! meets Babbdi, this game excels at it's environment design, both in terms of gameplay and visuals.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →God damn... Metal Garden... god fucking damn what a game... I fucking loved it!!!! Do go check it out if it feels like your kinda vibe!!! Go in knowing as LITTLE AS YOU CAN. store.steampowered.com/app/3539440/...
positive · AI labelView post →A neat little package. Somehow it feels exactly like a Half Life 2 mod even though it's running on Unreal lol
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just finished Metal Garden, a game I randomly stumbled upon the other day. Great sense of space, scale, and cool level design. tinerasoft.itch.io/metal-garden
positive · AI labelView post →Number eight: Metal Garden. Back to my fixations, back to a game about which I adore its sense of place. Also its melancholical atmosphere, its encounter design, its stark wildlife and its literal and narrative textures. A title that, after finishing it, I can say: "I lived there, for a while".
positive · AI labelView post →Just finished Metal Garden by @aleksandraht.bsky.social and it's a lovely little game. Some of it's vistas have given me maybe my favorite megastructure visuals in any game that I've played? It's like Halo, but a little more human, and a little more somber. Which is very much my jam.
positive · AI labelView post →That was an incredible journey through an incredible megastructure brutalism world The aesthetics of this game is breathtaking, I had many eyegasms There are a few puzzles where you have to seek your way but they're rather easy There are enemies that you have to kill BUT in the settings you can choose how difficult the game will be, that's a really nice feature that I didn't expect For ppl who like this kind of games I recommend it 100%, it was sooooo good! Well, tbh, I recommend it to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What an insanely inspiring video game. It is incredible just to imagine the nuts it took to simply give people this small glimpse into your world. Add onto that an incredible atmosphere, art design, and especially gameplay, and you have an experience that i believe was worth every penny Thank you so much for making this game. You truly inspire me to share my passions and ideas with the world
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fellow megastructure sickos and 00s FPS fans: do not sleep on Metal Garden. Fantastic little game.
positive · AI labelView post →hey, just wanted to mention once again that Metal Garden is coming out to Steam on 21st March (that's this Friday!) wishlists are very much appreciated! :) store.steampowered.com/app/3539440/...
neutral · AI labelView post →Metal Garden is a neat megastructure based game, I've been a bit obsessed with the idea of actually playing through a world like Blame, and while something like Lorn's Lure had more interesting gameplay, it was way less consistent in design than this. I guess the more fitting name would be Concrete Garden, as the whole world design consists of "garden worlds", there is nature for sure - big fields, trees, natural rock formations, seas, waterfalls and caves - but instead of a big natural world…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a wonderful, creative, inspiring game. I can't wait for the next one.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Single developer, singular vision, delivered remarkably well. Exploring the various architectural monuments, technological remnants and mechanical marvels was exciting until the very end. It'd be awesome to see this universe developed further.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good story, good soundtrack, perfect atmosphere and visuals, really nice hun animations, only complaint I have is that it's not longer, and the combat isn't too fun. But I genuinely adore this game. Glad I found this through Corax's video. Hope the dev makes a sequel!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →unique atmosphere and an intense feeling of scale. it's a very high quality little game and very thought-provoking
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