Metro 2039 revealed
Studio 4A Games unveiled Metro 2039 as a major reveal slated for 2026, positioning it as a headline release in the coming year. (x.com) The announcement arrived alongside other industry teases this week, signaling several big-name projects on publishers’ 2026 roadmaps. (x.com)
4A Games and Deep Silver have revealed *Metro 2039*, the next mainline Metro game, with a winter 2026 release window for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. (blog.playstation.com) The reveal ran on April 16 in a 15-minute presentation that included a six-minute trailer and a short gameplay tease. Deep Silver’s official site billed it as “the next chapter of METRO” ahead of that broadcast. (gematsu.com) (deepsilver.com) This is the fourth mainline Metro entry after *Metro 2033*, *Metro: Last Light*, and *Metro Exodus*. 4A Games said the new game returns the series to the Moscow tunnels after *Exodus* moved the action beyond the city. (news.xbox.com) (blog.playstation.com) The story is set in 2039, with Moscow’s underground factions now unified under the Novoreich, a regime led by Hunter, a returning Spartan figure now cast as a new Fuhrer. Players control a new protagonist called The Stranger, whom 4A says is the series’ first fully voiced lead character. (gematsu.com) (news.xbox.com) 4A Games described the project as a handcrafted, story-driven single-player first-person shooter with psychological horror and environmental storytelling. The first footage showed the Stranger moving through a ruined station, checking bodies and fighting a mutant Nosalis before reaching a populated settlement. (blog.playstation.com) (news.xbox.com) The studio also tied the game’s tone directly to the war in Ukraine. 4A, which said it remains majority Ukrainian and now works primarily from Kyiv and Malta, said Russia’s full-scale invasion “directly shaped” development and pushed the story toward choices, consequences, and the cost of securing a future. (gematsu.com) (news.xbox.com) That framing also connects the game back to the books. 4A said *Metro 2039* was written in collaboration with Metro author Dmitry Glukhovsky, whose novels established the series’ post-nuclear Moscow setting and political undercurrents. (blog.playstation.com) (deepsilver.com) The reveal lands seven years after *Metro Exodus* launched in 2019, ending a long gap between numbered entries. For now, 4A and Deep Silver have given players a season, not a date, and the next checkpoint is the usual run of previews, platform storefront updates, and gameplay demos that fill in a release calendar. (gematsu.com) (ign.com)
