Ukrainian Metro developer 4A Games is celebrating the 15th anniversary of the videogame series by announcing a year of events, deals, and new material, alongside a tease of where the franchise is going next. The team says it’s continuing to work hard on Metro’s future amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, and adds that fans are in “for quite the ride” in what it calls the most “relevant chapter” of the games to date.
Sunday March 16 2025 marks the 15th anniversary of Metro 2033, the 4A Games adaptation of Dmitry Glukhovsky’s post-apocalyptic novel of the same name. To celebrate, the studio has released a brand-new video and blog thanking players for their support, while teasing its plans for 2025 alongside the future of the FPS game series. The developer says “There will be events, deals, and celebratory content on the Metro social media channels, to thank you, our players, for coming on the journey so far with us.”
4A Games also shares an update on the next Metro game, which it says has been massively impacted by Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, which began in February 2022. “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 three-plus years, we are still living and working during this wartime, and that inevitably shapes the games we make,” 4A Games writes. “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.”
Back in 2023, a Moscow court sentenced Glukhovsky to eight years in prison for ‘spreading false information about Russia’s armed forces’. Glukhovsky was tried in absentia. His current whereabouts are believed to be outside of Russia.
It’s worth noting that 4A Games’ upcoming Metro sequel, alongside a new IP project in the works, is separate from the work of the recently rebranded 4A Games Ukraine. That studio is now called Reburn, and is working on a new sci-fi co-op FPS called La Quimera. 4A Games made this distinction clear back in February while wishing Reburn “every success.”
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