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This is disingenuous. Apparently Steam has a bug where it asks you to write a review for a game that can't be reviewed. That's a bug, but it's pretty minor.

The one you can review is a different game. The store page for Metro Exodus describes the Enhanced Edition as:

> a stunning visual upgrade that REQUIRES a Ray-Tracing Capable GPU as part of the minimum spec.

Things like that can introduce all kinds of new problems and glitches, so reviews for one version don't necessarily apply to the other.

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I doubt it's related to reviewing different version, otherwise the enhanced edition would have its own store page. It's probably just a mistake from the publisher made possible by Steam not handling these peculiarities very well.

Is the "Extended Edition" on Steam at all? I can't find it in their catalog. Is the OP trying to review a non-Steam game on Steam, by reviewing a different game, and is complaining that they are different games?

A discussion page exists[0], but the review page is empty when you view it (and clicking to add a post brings me to the TF2 review page!)

Enhanced Edition is on Steam, but you get it when buying the original Metro Exodus. You get both, the original game (steamid 412020) and the Enhanced Edition (steamid 1449560) in your steam library.

I don't own it, but from reading OP's post and other stories online I'm guessing it's similar to how the Call of Duty games handle Singleplayer and Multiplayer. They are 2 separate "games" in your library that you get from a single purchase, and can install independently. But from what I can tell in steamdb, the CoD games don't seem to use separate steamid's for the split, while Metro Exodus EE does.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1449560/discussions/

CoD games do use different apps.

Steam has apps, packages, and depots.

Package: the store page, the actual entitlement purchase

App: the entries that show up in the steam library

Depot: not really important to this discussion

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