Today, Developer 4A Games and publisher Deep Silver officially confirmed Metro 2039, the fourth mainline entry in the post-apocalyptic franchise, with a full global reveal scheduled for April 16, 2026.
The livestream will take place via the official Xbox YouTube channel and a premiere link for the Xbox First Look: Metro 2039 at 1:00 PM ET. So far, there isn’t much information about the game beyond the fact that it will take place 4 years after Metro Exodus.
Last year, 4A Games stated that the storyline and events had been significantly influenced by the team’s lived experiences during the Russo-Ukrainian War. You can read a snippet of the info below, which came during the 15-anniversary blog post:
“As we said in our last studio update, in 2022, a full-scale russian invasion changed how we wanted to tell the story of the next Metro game. As art became life for many of our developers in Ukraine, we drew from that lived experience to create an even darker story, those themes already present in Metro becoming ever more apparent and important. As conflict, the struggle for power, the horrors of tyranny, and the price of freedom have become part of our lives over the past 3+ years, we are still living and working during this wartime, and that inevitably shapes the games we make.”
The Metro series was originally released back in 2005 with Metro 2033, based on the novels of Russian writer Dmitry Glukhovsky. The story follows Artyom, a 20-year-old man who has lived almost his entire life in the underground following a nuclear holocaust that forced surviving Muscovites to take refuge in the Moscow Metro. By 2033, this underground network has become a fragmented world of isolated station-states, overrun by irradiated monsters and scavengers.
As of February 2024, the Metro game series has shipped over 16.2 million units, driven by the latest entry, Metro Exodus, which alone has sold over 10 million copies since its 2019 release. There is no word on which platforms Metro 2039 will release on, but history suggests Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and PC, with a possible Day 1 release on Game Pass.
