Metro 2039 First Look set for April 16
Xbox has scheduled a Metro 2039 first‑look showcase for April 16, signaling an upcoming deeper reveal from the franchise on that date (x.com). The announcement positions the showcase as the next major Xbox‑platform update for the title (x.com).
Xbox will air a first look at *Metro 2039* on Thursday, April 16, at 10 a.m. Pacific, putting the next mainline *Metro* game in front of players for the first time. (news.xbox.com) Xbox said the broadcast is a digital-only “world-premiere look” with developer 4A Games and publisher Deep Silver. The stream is scheduled for 1 p.m. Eastern and 6 p.m. in the United Kingdom on Xbox’s YouTube channel. (news.xbox.com) The showcase confirms this is the fourth mainline *Metro* entry from 4A Games, after *Metro 2033* in 2010, *Metro: Last Light* in 2013, and *Metro Exodus* in 2019. Xbox said the series remains based on Dmitry Glukhovsky’s novels about survivors living in and around Moscow’s subway after nuclear devastation. (news.xbox.com) That date matters because 4A Games had spent the past year saying only that the next *Metro* was still in development. In a March 16, 2025 anniversary update, the studio said the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine changed how it wanted to tell the story of the next game. (4a-games.com.mt) 4A Games said in that update that it was drawing on its team’s lived experience in Ukraine to make the next *Metro* “even darker,” while continuing work under missile strikes and air-raid sirens. The studio said it had more than 200 staff across Kyiv and Malta and was also building a separate unannounced project. (4a-games.com.mt) The reveal also clarifies where *Metro 2039* sits in the series after last year’s *Metro Awakening*. That 2024 release was a virtual-reality prequel developed by Vertigo Games in collaboration with Deep Silver and Dmitry Glukhovsky, not the next numbered game from 4A Games. (metroawakening.com) The last core game, *Metro Exodus*, moved the series beyond the Moscow tunnels and into a cross-country journey through post-apocalyptic Russia. On 4A Games’ official site, the studio says *Exodus* is set in 2035 and follows Artyom leading Spartan Rangers east in search of a new life. (4a-games.com.mt) Xbox said Thursday’s stream will include subtitle support in more than 25 languages, plus English audio descriptions and American Sign Language. If the company sticks to that schedule, the first extended details on *Metro 2039* arrive in less than 48 hours. (news.xbox.com)
