Metro 2039

METRO 2039 is the next landmark FPS from acclaimed storytellers 4A Games. Its announced setting is post-apocalyptic Moscow in the year 2039, twenty-five years after nuclear war. The city above is poisoned, while the surviving population has endured in the Metro tunnels beneath it. For a quarter century, the survivors have been locked in bitter conflict. The game’s central struggle is described as a fight for the very soul of the Metro. That framing places the story inside an underground society shaped by nuclear devastation, prolonged isolation, and war. It is not a journey through an ordinary Moscow: the surface is poisoned, and the tunnels are where the last survivors remain.

The announced plot introduces a political turning point. The survivors have finally been united under a single leader, a fanatical Spartan known as Hunter. Yet the arrival of unity does not mean peace. Hunter’s regime, called the Novoreich, rules through propaganda and fear. Its authority reaches into the Metro’s postwar population, where the promise of a single order is joined to coercion. The conflict therefore changes shape: after twenty-five years of bitter struggle among survivors, the question is no longer only whether communities can endure beneath a poisoned city. It is also whether the Metro can retain its soul under a coercive system built around Hunter’s leadership.

The title’s premise makes Moscow itself a divided space. Above ground stands a poisoned city, the physical legacy of nuclear war. Below ground stretches the Metro, home to the last survivors and the arena in which their conflict has continued for a generation. The setting is consequently both refuge and battleground. Its darkness is not presented as empty atmosphere; it is the environment in which human power, loyalty, and fear are being contested. Hunter’s emergence gives that contest a clear antagonist in political terms: a leader who has united the survivors while establishing control through propaganda and fear. The announced story places its characters at the point where survival, order, and control collide.

Scheduled for release on February 4, 2027, METRO 2039 is positioned as a first-person shooter from 4A Games. 4A Games is described as an acclaimed storytelling studio, while METRO 2039 is presented as its next landmark FPS. Its hook is not nuclear war itself, but conflict unfolding twenty-five years afterward within Moscow’s tunnels. Hunter’s Novoreich has converted unity into rule by propaganda and fear, making the Metro’s future the stake.