Will Artyom Be The Protagonist of Metro 2039?

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After years of rumors, a fourth game in the Metro series is officially confirmed to be in development.

Currently, we only know when the reveal will happen and have seen a brief video featuring a watch. However, even this limited information might be more helpful than anything we’ve seen before.

Metro 2039 is Being Unveiled This Week

4A Games will reveal the next Metro game, Metro 2039, on April 16th at 1:00 PM Eastern Time. You can visit the game’s website to sign up for an email reminder about the announcement.

Good news for fans of the original story: author Dmitry Glukhovsky appears to still be working on the project, at least based on initial indications.

Even though the Metro games moved away from the original novels after the first installment, author Dmitry Glukhovsky has contributed to the story of each game, helping create some of the most captivating and bleak post-apocalyptic worlds in gaming.

Xbox is also a key partner in the launch of Metro 2039 and will be showing it off on their YouTube channel.

How Will Metro 2039 Differ from Exodus?

Besides knowing the new game takes place four years after the events of the Aurora voyage in Metro Exodus, details about the setting and characters are still unknown. However, given what’s happened since the last game came out in 2019, we can expect a more somber story and a city-based environment.

Everyone’s wondering if Artyom will be the main character in the next game. While a new device seems likely after four years, the one shown in the preview doesn’t resemble the ones Artyom and Anna used before, even though it appears to do similar things.

Honestly, I’m starting to wonder if it’s even worth continuing Artyom’s story. He and the Spartans always cared about the people still stuck in Moscow, but the city is just so messed up and overrun… I mean, what can a small group of us really do to fix things there? It feels like a lost cause sometimes.

I think it would be great to have a new main character. The ‘Two Colonels’ and ‘Sam’s Story’ expansions proved how interesting the Metro world can be when experienced through someone else’s eyes.

Another key consideration is the game’s atmosphere. Considering how much the world has changed since Metro Exodus was released seven years ago, it’s important to think about how the game will feel now.

Artyom and his Spartan comrades always remembered the people still trapped in Moscow. However, given how completely overrun and corrupted the city has become, they questioned what a small group like theirs could actually accomplish there.

The war in Ukraine has tragically mirrored the grim world of the ‘Metro’ novels for many Ukrainian developers, who have found themselves living through the same hardships – seeking shelter in bomb shelters, conserving food, and hiding in subway stations during attacks. Dmitry Glukhovsky, the author of ‘Metro,’ who was once popular in Russia, is now considered a fugitive there.

It’s difficult to predict exactly how these factors will change the game, but they’re sure to influence the story and the world it takes place in. Going through experiences like these inevitably leaves a mark, and that will show in the game.

We’re anxiously awaiting what happens to the people of Metro 2039, and hoping we have extra gas mask filters just in case.

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2026-04-13 18:09