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Metro 2039

Metro 2039 launches on Feb 4, 2027Date announced, hour not: 4A Games and Deep Silver have given no launch hour as of Nov 3, 2026, so this counts to the start of the day in UTC. Some territories, including Asia, Australia and New Zealand, get it on Feb 5, 2027.

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Lore

8 Metro 2039 pages in Lore.

Metro FactionsIn 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 LoreThe 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 MutantsMetro 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.
SevastopolskayaSevastopolskaya 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 AuroraThe 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 OnesThe 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 NovoreichThe 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 OrderThe 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.