Metro 2039 finally has a target window. 4A Games and Deep Silver pinned the next entry in the post-apocalyptic shooter series to February 2027 during the Xbox Games Showcase, swapping out the vague “winter” tag attached to its earlier reveal for a specific month. The studio paired that news with the game’s first proper gameplay trailer, a roughly three-minute cut captured entirely in-game.
Quick answer: Metro 2039 launches in February 2027 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store.
Metro 2039 release window and platforms
The game was first teased back in April with a cinematic reveal that promised a darker tone and a winter 2026 launch. That plan has shifted. Metro 2039 is now expected in February 2027, which moves it out of this year entirely.
It will be available across current-gen consoles and PC at launch. There is no confirmed exact day or time yet, only the month.
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Release window | February 2027 |
| Consoles | PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X |
| PC storefronts | Steam, Epic Games Store |
| Developer | 4A Games |
| Publisher | Deep Silver |
What the gameplay trailer shows
The trailer opens with a montage of post-apocalyptic vistas before dropping into frantic first-person action. It moves between the irradiated streets above Moscow and the claustrophobic tunnels below, hitting the series’ familiar blend of stealth, survival, gunplay, and horror. You also get a tour of the world itself, from deadly wildlands and ruined city streets to struggling station settlements and the tunnels’ darkest depths.
A few new additions are visible if you watch closely. The footage gives a first look at a new stealth weapon called the Shatun, along with a new breaching charge. There are also fresh items, new mutant variants, and new ways to move through or exploit the environment.
Who is Hunter, the new Fuhrer
The trailer, titled “Hunter,” is built around its antagonist. Set in 2039, the story finds the survivors who have spent a quarter century fighting in the tunnels beneath Moscow now united under a single ruler. That ruler is Hunter, a fanatical Spartan who has bound the Metro’s factions together under a new totalitarian banner, the Novoreich.
This is not peace. Hunter’s regime governs through propaganda and fear, pushing a new war for the surface against a dark and terrifying enemy. The trailer gives the first in-game look at him in a decorated Novoreich uniform, a fascist twist on the iconic Spartan armor, with his image plastered across posters, statues, and flickering propaganda throughout the underground.
Hunter’s history makes the turn more pointed. He was once a legend within the Spartan Order, a high-ranking Ranger who swore to protect the Metro. What remains of that order now lies in ruins.
The Stranger and the story setup
You play as the Stranger, a reclusive protagonist haunted by violent waking nightmares. In a first for the series, the lead character is fully voiced. When the ghosts of his past force him out of exile, he makes a harrowing journey back into the shattered ruins of Moscow, to the one place he swore he would never return to. The Metro.
The Stranger is consumed with anger at Hunter’s lies and hypocrisy. Where the Spartans were once seen as selfless protectors, he has come to believe Hunter has become the very enemy the order used to fight. The game picks up six years after the events of 2019’s Metro Exodus, and 4A is positioning it as the darkest and most shocking entry in the franchise so far.
A story told from a Ukrainian perspective
4A Games is based in Ukraine and has been building Metro 2039 amid Russia’s ongoing full-scale invasion, with additional work in Malta. The studio has framed the game’s themes around that reality, describing a shift away from the series’ usual message of preventing war toward the consequences of war, including the cost of silence, the horrors of tyranny, and the price of freedom.
That throughline runs straight into the fiction. A regime that rules through propaganda and fear, an enemy manufactured to justify a new war, and a protagonist driven to burn it all down read as deliberate. With a February 2027 window now on the board, expect more gameplay showings before launch.
