# Metro 2039 > Metro 2039, 4A Games' next Metro shooter, out Feb 4, 2027: release date, editions, story, gameplay and trailers, with the whole series, Glukhovsky's novels and the lore behind it Metro 2039 is 4A Games' fourth mainline Metro first-person shooter, published by Deep Silver, out Feb 4, 2027 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Steam, Epic Games Store, Xbox on PC). In Moscow in 2039 you play the Stranger, a former Spartan, against Hunter, now Fuhrer of the Novoreich that rules the Metro. This viki covers its release, editions, story, gameplay, trailers and previews, then the whole series as background: Metro 2033 and Redux, Last Light, Exodus and its DLCs, Metro Awakening, Dmitry Glukhovsky's novels, the characters, factions and creatures, and says what is not yet known. Metro 2039 is a video wiki on Vi.ki: every key paragraph carries a timestamped YouTube clip that shows what it says, and every page lists its sources. Page text is CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical page URLs are https://metro2039.vi.ki/{slug}; a category lists its pages at https://metro2039.vi.ki/{category}, and a photo has its own page at https://metro2039.vi.ki/photo/{title}-{id}; please link to them when you quote a page. Subject: Metro 2039 (schema.org VideoGame), the same thing as https://store.steampowered.com/app/2590240/. ## Characters - [Anna](https://metro2039.vi.ki/anna): Anna is Colonel Miller's daughter, the Spartan Order's best sniper, met in Metro: Last Light and married to Artyom by Metro Exodus. She has not been shown or announced for Metro 2039 as of Nov 3, 2026. - [Artyom](https://metro2039.vi.ki/artyom): Artyom is the hero of the Metro novels and of Metro 2033, Metro: Last Light and Metro Exodus, a young man of VDNKh station who becomes a Spartan Ranger. He is not the protagonist of Metro 2039, and no return has been announced as of Nov 3, 2026. - [Colonel Miller](https://metro2039.vi.ki/colonel-miller): Colonel Miller is the commander of the Spartan Order in Metro: Last Light and Metro Exodus, Anna's father and Artyom's father-in-law, who loses his legs at D6 and commands the Aurora. He stars in The Two Colonels; Metro 2039 has not shown him as of Nov 3, 2026. - [Hunter](https://metro2039.vi.ki/hunter): Hunter is the Spartan Ranger of Metro 2033 whose creed is "If it's hostile, you kill it", missing from the games after it and back in Metro 2039 as the Fuhrer of the Novoreich, the regime that rules almost the entire Moscow Metro. In the novel Metro 2034 he turns up at Sevastopol station a year after Metro 2033. - [Khan](https://metro2039.vi.ki/khan): Khan is the mystic of the Metro series, a shamanic guide to the tunnels' unseen side in Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light and the hero of the VR prequel Metro Awakening. Metro 2039's creative director quoted him to explain why souls cannot leave the Metro. - [Metro Characters](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-characters): Metro 2039's named characters so far are the Stranger, a former Spartan who is the hero, Hunter, Fuhrer of the Novoreich, and the bandit leader Kaban. The earlier Metro games center on Artyom, Colonel Miller, Anna, Khan, Pavel and the Aurora's crew. - [The Stranger](https://metro2039.vi.ki/the-stranger): The Stranger is the protagonist of Metro 2039, a former Spartan and recluse haunted by violent waking nightmares who is forced back into the Moscow Metro. He replaces Artyom as the lead and is the series' first fully voiced protagonist; his real name and voice actor are not announced as of Nov 3, 2026. ## Guides - [How Long to Beat Metro](https://metro2039.vi.ki/how-long-to-beat-metro): Metro 2039's length has not been announced; 4A Games says only that its critical path is longer than Metro Exodus's. By HowLongToBeat's player figures, Metro Exodus takes 16 hours for the main story, Metro 2033 about 9.5 and Metro: Last Light about 10.5. - [Metro Difficulty Modes](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-difficulty-modes): Metro's hardest setting is Ranger Mode, which removes the HUD and makes ammunition scarce; it began as a 2010 add-on for Metro 2033, was a paid pre-order extra in Metro: Last Light, and is built into Metro Redux and Metro Exodus, where it is Ranger Hardcore. Metro 2039's difficulty modes have not been announced. - [Metro Endings](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-endings): Every mainline Metro game so far has two endings, picked by a hidden karma system rather than a final menu choice: Metro 2033's ordinary and "Enlightened" endings, Metro: Last Light's "Redemption" and "C'est la vie", and Metro Exodus's good and bad endings. Metro 2039 brings hidden karma back, but how many endings it has is not announced. - [Metro Games in Order](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-games-in-order): The Metro games in release order are Metro 2033 (2010), Metro: Last Light (2013), Metro Redux (2014), Arktika.1 (2017), Metro Exodus (2019) with its two DLCs and Enhanced Edition, Metro Awakening (2024) and Metro 2039 (Feb 4, 2027). In story order, Metro Awakening (2028) comes first and Metro 2039 last. - [Metro Gas Masks and Filters](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-gas-masks-and-filters): In Metro 2039 the gas mask's filter time shows on a digital watch the Stranger has to look at, which beeps as a filter runs out; filters are crafted from the backpack and the mask visor is wiped by hand. Gas masks and filters have been part of every Metro game, and Metro Exodus let you craft filters and patch a cracked mask. - [Military-Grade Ammo](https://metro2039.vi.ki/military-grade-ammo): Military-grade 5.45x39mm rounds are the money of the Moscow Metro in Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light, and they are the currency again in Metro 2039 after Metro Exodus dropped them. The rounds are both money and ammunition, so a military-grade shot fired is money spent. - [Where to Start with Metro](https://metro2039.vi.ki/where-to-start-with-metro): You do not need to play any earlier Metro game before Metro 2039: Deep Silver calls it a good jumping-on point with a new hero and cast. For the background, start with Metro 2033 Redux and Metro: Last Light Redux, then Metro Exodus; Exodus alone is the shortcut. ## Lore - [Metro Factions](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-factions): In Metro 2039 almost the whole Metro is one faction, the Novoreich of the Fuhrer Hunter, with the independent station Sevastopolskaya holding out. Before it the Metro was split between Hanza, the communist Red Line, the Nazi Fourth Reich, Polis, the Spartan Rangers and bandits. - [Metro Lore](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-lore): The Metro story begins with a nuclear war in 2013 that drives Moscow's survivors into the Metro, where stations become small rival states. It runs through Metro 2033, Last Light and Exodus to 2039, when Hunter's Novoreich rules almost the whole Metro. - [Metro Mutants](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-mutants): Metro 2039's mutants shown so far are Nosalises, back as bear-sized mole-like creatures, and the flying Insectalis, which a UV lamp repels. The earlier Metro games add watchmen, lurkers, demons, librarians, amoebas, spiders, humanimals and more. - [Sevastopolskaya](https://metro2039.vi.ki/sevastopolskaya): Sevastopolskaya is the independent Moscow Metro station that serves as the Stranger's base in Metro 2039, one of the biggest surviving colonies and under threat of a Novoreich takeover. In Dmitry Glukhovsky's novel Metro 2034 it is Sevastopol station, cut off from the rest of the Metro, where Hunter appears. - [The Aurora](https://metro2039.vi.ki/the-aurora): The Aurora is the armored steam locomotive of Metro Exodus, the moving base on which Artyom, Anna, Colonel Miller and the Spartans cross Russia for a year after leaving Moscow. It has not appeared in Metro 2039 as of Nov 3, 2026. - [The Dark Ones](https://metro2039.vi.ki/the-dark-ones): The Dark Ones are the mind-invading beings from Moscow's surface in the Metro novel and games, the threat of Metro 2033 and the hidden saviors of Metro: Last Light, who told Artyom they would return. They return in Metro 2039, where Hunter calls them an enemy to be destroyed. - [The Novoreich](https://metro2039.vi.ki/the-novoreich): The Novoreich is the regime that rules almost the entire Moscow Metro in Metro 2039, led by its Fuhrer, the former Spartan Hunter, and held together by propaganda, misinformation and fear. It echoes the Fourth Reich, the Nazi faction of Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light, but the makers have not said how the two are connected. - [The Spartan Order](https://metro2039.vi.ki/the-spartan-order): The Spartan Order is the Metro series' elite brotherhood of Rangers, who protect the Metro's people under Colonel Miller and leave Moscow with Artyom in Metro Exodus. In Metro 2039 its first Spartan, Hunter, rules the Metro as Fuhrer, and the hero, the Stranger, is a former Spartan. ## Metro 2039 - [Metro 2039 and the War in Ukraine](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-2039-and-the-war-in-ukraine): Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 changed Metro 2039: 4A Games, whose team works mostly in Kyiv, scrapped the story it had, rebooted the project and made a darker game about tyranny, propaganda and the consequences of war, developed through blackouts and air raids. Co-writer Dmitry Glukhovsky, an opponent of the war, was sentenced in absentia in Russia in 2023. - [Metro 2039 Editions and Price](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-2039-editions-and-price): Metro 2039 costs $69.99 for the Standard Edition and $99.99 for the digital Deluxe Edition, which adds a 2027 Story Expansion, the soundtrack and an art book; a physical Deluxe and a limited Collector's Edition with a wearable Spartan helmet are sold in stores. Every pre-order gets the Specialist Pack. - [Metro 2039 Gameplay](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-2039-gameplay): Metro 2039 is a single-player, story-driven first-person shooter that mixes stealth, combat, survival and exploration in Moscow's Metro tunnels and on its irradiated surface. Shown so far: three weapon slots plus a signature gun, backpack crafting and Workbenches, ammo as currency, a gas mask timed on a watch, and a hidden karma system. - [Metro 2039 Platforms and PC Requirements](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-2039-platforms-and-pc-requirements): Metro 2039 is coming to PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Steam, Epic Games Store, Xbox on PC) on Feb 4, 2027, with no PS4, Xbox One, Switch 2 or Game Pass version announced. As of Nov 3, 2026 its PC system requirements have not been published; the game is fully ray traced, with a 60fps Performance Mode on PS5, PS5 Pro and Xbox Series X. - [Metro 2039 Previews](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-2039-previews): Metro 2039 was first played at Gamescom 2026 in August, where press played a pre-release build for two to four hours and more than 5,000 visitors tried a demo; previews from GamesRadar+, IGN, Xbox Wire and others were strongly positive, and it won Best Visuals at the Gamescom Award. There are no reviews before its Feb 4, 2027 release. - [Metro 2039 Release Date](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-2039-release-date): Metro 2039 comes out on Feb 4, 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, and on Feb 5, 2027 in some territories including Asia, Australia and New Zealand. As of Nov 3, 2026 no launch hour or pre-load date has been announced. - [Metro 2039 Story](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-2039-story): Metro 2039 is set in Moscow in 2039, four years after Artyom and the Spartans left the Metro at the start of Metro Exodus, when Hunter, the first Spartan, rules almost the whole Metro as Fuhrer of the Novoreich. You play the Stranger, a former Spartan, in an original story by 4A Games and Dmitry Glukhovsky. - [Metro 2039 Trailers](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-2039-trailers): Metro 2039 has five main trailers as of Nov 3, 2026: the reveal at the Xbox First Look on Apr 16, 2026, the Hunter gameplay trailer at the Xbox Games Showcase on Jun 7, the Renegade trailer at Gamescom Opening Night Live on Aug 25, the PS5 Pro gameplay and release date trailer at the State of Play on Sep 3, and the pre-order trailer on Oct 13. - [Metro 2039 Weapons](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-2039-weapons): Metro 2039's weapons shown so far are the Shatun pneumatic rifle (the signature gun), the Duplet shotgun, the Kalash, silenced submachine guns, Molotovs and a knife, carried in three primary slots plus a signature slot and customized with blueprints and attachments. The full arsenal is not known until the Feb 4, 2027 launch. ## Overview - [Metro 2039](https://metro2039.vi.ki/): Metro 2039 is 4A Games' fourth mainline Metro shooter, published by Deep Silver, out Feb 4, 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Steam, Epic Games Store, Xbox on PC). You play the Stranger, a former Spartan, in a Moscow Metro ruled by Hunter, Fuhrer of the Novoreich. ## The Novels - [Dmitry Glukhovsky](https://metro2039.vi.ki/dmitry-glukhovsky): Dmitry Glukhovsky is the Moscow-born author of the Metro novels Metro 2033, Metro 2034 and Metro 2035, who worked on every Metro game's story and helped write Metro 2039 from exile. A Moscow court sentenced him in absentia to eight years in prison on Aug 7, 2023 for posts criticizing Russia's war in Ukraine. - [Metro 2033 (Novel)](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-2033-novel): Metro 2033 is Dmitry Glukhovsky's first novel, published free online in 2002 and in print in Russia in 2005, in which Artyom of VDNKh station crosses the Moscow Metro to Polis to warn of a new threat. Gollancz published it in English on Mar 18, 2010, and it is the book the 2010 Metro 2033 game adapts. - [Metro 2033 Universe](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-2033-universe): The Metro 2033 Universe is the shared-world book series Dmitry Glukhovsky opened to other writers after Metro 2034, which had about 35 Russian-language novels by May 2013 set across the post-war world. His own three novels, Metro 2033, Metro 2034 and Metro 2035, are its core, read in that order. - [Metro 2034 (Novel)](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-2034-novel): Metro 2034 is Dmitry Glukhovsky's 2009 Metro novel, set a year after Metro 2033, in which Hunter appears at the cut-off Sevastopol station and travels with the old storyteller Homer and 17-year-old Sasha. It is not a game: Metro: Last Light tells a different story, and Gollancz published it in English on Nov 13, 2014. - [Metro 2035 (Novel)](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-2035-novel): Metro 2035 is Dmitry Glukhovsky's 2015 novel that ends the Metro trilogy, in which Artyom keeps climbing to the surface to search the airwaves for other survivors. It continues the story of Metro: Last Light, and Metro Exodus (2019) follows on from it. - [Metro Film Adaptation](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-film-adaptation): No Metro 2033 film has been made: MGM's American version ended in 2018, a Russian film from Gazprom-Media's studios was paused in April 2022, and on May 15, 2026 Dmitry Glukhovsky said a new screen adaptation is in discussion. Metro 2039 has no film or series tie-in. ## The Series - [4A Games](https://metro2039.vi.ki/4a-games): 4A Games is the studio that makes the Metro games, founded in Kyiv, Ukraine, by former GSC Game World developers and headquartered in Sliema, Malta, since 2014, with most of its staff still in Kyiv. Its next game is Metro 2039, out Feb 4, 2027, published by Deep Silver. - [Arktika.1](https://metro2039.vi.ki/arktika-1): Arktika.1 is 4A Games' 2017 virtual reality shooter for Oculus Rift with Touch controllers, released Oct 10, 2017, in which a mercenary defends a colony in the frozen ruins of Russia a century after a "silent apocalypse". It is not a Metro game, but it was made by the Metro studio. - [Metro 2033](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-2033): Metro 2033 is 4A Games' first Metro game, a story-driven shooter published by THQ on Mar 16, 2010 for Xbox 360 and PC, in which Artyom crosses the Moscow Metro to save his home station from the Dark Ones. Its remake, Metro 2033 Redux, is the version sold today. - [Metro 2033 Redux](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-2033-redux): Metro 2033 Redux is 4A Games' 2014 remake of Metro 2033, sold with Metro: Last Light Redux as Metro Redux on PS4, Xbox One and PC in Aug 2014, on Switch in Feb 2020, and updated free for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S in Oct 2026. It adds the Spartan and Survival play styles. - [Metro Awakening](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-awakening): Metro Awakening is a virtual reality Metro game by Vertigo Games, out Nov 7, 2024 on PlayStation VR2, Meta Quest 2 and 3, SteamVR and Viveport. A prequel to Metro 2033 written by Dmitry Glukhovsky, it follows Serdar, a doctor searching the tunnels for his missing wife, who becomes the mystic Khan. - [Metro Exodus](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-exodus): Metro Exodus is 4A Games' third Metro game, out Feb 15, 2019 on PC, PS4 and Xbox One, in which Artyom and the Spartans leave Moscow aboard the Aurora train and cross Russia over a year. It mixes linear missions with large open levels, sold over 10 million copies by Feb 2024, and is followed by Metro 2039. - [Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-exodus-enhanced-edition): Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition is 4A Games' free ray-traced upgrade of Metro Exodus and its DLC, out on PC on May 6, 2021 and on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on Jun 18, 2021. On PC it needs a ray-tracing graphics card (Nvidia RTX or AMD RX), and it is the groundwork for Metro 2039's ray-traced renderer. - [Metro Series Sales](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-series-sales): The Metro games have sold 50 million copies worldwide, Deep Silver said in Oct 2026. Metro Exodus alone passed 10 million by Feb 2024, Metro 2033 sold over 1.5 million by Jun 2012, and Metro 2039 reached 1 million wishlists by May 5, 2026. - [Metro: Last Light](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-last-light): Metro: Last Light is 4A Games' 2013 sequel to Metro 2033, published by Deep Silver after THQ's bankruptcy, in which Artyom, now a Spartan, hunts the last Dark One while the Metro's factions fight over the D6 bunker. It had four DLC packs and two endings, and its remake is Metro: Last Light Redux. - [Metro: Last Light Redux](https://metro2039.vi.ki/metro-last-light-redux): Metro: Last Light Redux is 4A Games' 2014 remaster of Metro: Last Light with all of its DLC included, sold in Metro Redux for PS4, Xbox One and PC from Aug 2014, on Switch from Feb 2020, and on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S through a free update since Oct 29, 2026. - [Sam's Story](https://metro2039.vi.ki/sams-story): Sam's Story is Metro Exodus's second and last story DLC, released Feb 11, 2020, an open sandbox level in the tsunami-wrecked ruins of Vladivostok where Sam, a former US Marine of the Aurora's crew, looks for a way home to America. It runs about 5.5 to 8.5 hours and costs $9.99 on Steam. - [The Two Colonels](https://metro2039.vi.ki/the-two-colonels): The Two Colonels is Metro Exodus's first story DLC, released Aug 20, 2019, a linear two-to-three-hour chapter in the tunnels under Novosibirsk where Colonel Khlebnikov tries to reach his son and, a year later, Colonel Miller retraces his steps. It adds the flamethrower and costs $6.99 on Steam.