For the next 48 hours, Metro 2033 Redux will be available for free on Steam, GOG, and Xbox. This is how the 4A Games team is celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Metro series. Note that Metro 2033 Redux is a remaster of the 2010 original.
As part of a new update on the Metro series, 4A Games has confirmed that a new Metro series game is still in development. As a Ukrainian studio, Russia’s ongoing invasion of the country has changed the development of the company’s newest Metro game. Now, the game is said to have an “even darker story,” as developers have drawn from their “lived experience” to make the game.
Dmitry Glukhovsky, the creator of the Metro series, is continuing to work with 4A Games. Glukhovsky is currently wanted in Russia (his home country) for criticising the Russian government over the invasion of Ukraine.
Although Metro is 4A Games’ core franchise, the studio has confirmed that they have another game in the works. Note that this game uses a “brand new unannounced IP.”
Gamers can rest assured that a new Metro game is in development. Below is what the studio has to say about their upcoming game. Currently, Metro 4 has no release date.
The next Metro
As we said in our last studio update, in 2022 a full-scale russian invasion changed how we wanted to tell the story of the next Metro game. 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.
Metro has always had a hard-hitting, political, anti-war and often emotional story – and you can be sure these themes will continue thanks to our ongoing collaboration with franchise creator, author, and activist Dmitry Glukhovsky.
Dmitry has always spoken out against the war in Ukraine from the start – a courageous decision for any russian, that has seen him sentenced to jail (in absentia) – and we are proud to have him as a friend and co-creator as we tell this next, and never more relevant chapter of Metro together.
Rest assured, you are in for quite the ride.
To our community, thank you for your words of support, your patience and your excitement over what is to come. We are grateful to have you, and rest assured, despite the challenges we face, we will overcome them as we have all others before.
– 4A Games
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