Happy New Year to you too! Yeah, Metro Exodus was really good. It’s an interesting series - Metro 2033 seems like a 12-year old boy’s vision of a post-apocalyptic world: mostly underground, a dialog that’s 90% “shit” and “motherfucker”, lots of guns and gore, demons and dragons, and telepathic alien encounters to boot. Metro Last Light is slightly more grown up, like the 12-year old has turned 15 and discovered girls. Still mostly underground, still violent. Some gratuitous nude scenes, but a bit more grown up dialog. And then Metro Exodus is the adult in the series with themes like disillusionment and deception, but also hope and redemption. I like that it’s predominantly set outdoors with a lot less horror-y feel to it - the monsters are most often our fellow man. No jump scares that I can remember. In fact it reminds me a lot of one of my favorite games all time: Half-Life 2.
As I mentioned, I’m currently playing Fallout 4 and The Wolf Among Us; for the months ahead I’m eyeing Baldur’s Gate, Life is Strange: Before the Storm, Far Cry 3, and Wasteland 2. Given my rate of play, that should take me into next fall at least!