Developer 4A Games, publisher Deep Silver, and Xbox have announced Metro 2039, the fourth mainline entry within the Metro video game universe. We don’t have any details about the game yet, but a full reveal is scheduled for Thursday, April 16.
An Xbox Wire post accompanies a countdown video for the reveal stream. The post reads that the presentation will begin at 10 a.m. Pacific/1 p.m. Eastern. Metro 2039 follows Metro 2033 (2010), Metro: Last Night (2013), and Metro: Exodus (2019), which are post-apocalyptic first-person shooters adapted from the Metro series of novels by Dmitry Glukhovsky. The most recent game is Metro Awakening, a VR-exclusive prequel to Metro 2033 that was released in 2024.
The games largely unfold within the subway tunnels of a Moscow devastated by nuclear war (though you visit plenty of above-ground locations as well) and usually involve players fighting to survive against enemy human factions and dangerous mutants. Given that Metro: Exodus was set in 2035, Metro 2039 takes place four years later. Whether or not it will feature any returning characters remains unknown.
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