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Metro 2033 turned fifteen this month, prompting a blog from 4A Games celebrating the FPS horror series’ past while looking forward to the next entry. The unnamed Metro 4 surfaced again last January as part of a reveal for VR title Metro Awakening, following a 2023 blog detailing the studio’s experience under the Russian invasion.
“We do want to reassure you that work is continuing on both of our projects despite missile strikes, air-raid sirens, and terror still raining down on Ukraine,” reads the new blog. “These circumstances are incredibly challenging, the situation remains dangerous and not within our control, but we are currently as safe as possible, and we want to manage your expectations around the reveal of the next Metro title, it will be ready when it is ready, and we can’t wait for you to see it”.
The 2022 invasion of Ukraine “changed how we wanted to tell the story of the next Metro game,” 4A continue. “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 series – set in Moscow’s metro tunnels and following the survivors of global nuclear war – began life as a novel by Dmitry Glukhovsky, first published online when the author was just eighteen, then in print in 2005. Glukhovsky, originally from Moscow, is currently abroad after a court ordered his arrest in absentia following public criticism of Russia’s invasion.
“Metro has always had a hard-hitting, political, anti-war and often emotional story,” write 4A Games. “You can be sure these themes will continue thanks to our ongoing collaboration with franchise creator, author, and activist Dmitry Glukhovsky”.
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