Metro 2039 Launches February 4, 2027: Story, Editions and Everything 4A Games Has Shown

Update (October 2026): Metro 2039 now has a firm release date, February 4, 2027, and pre-orders opened on October 13. When we first published this story in April, the game had only a “winter” window. We have rewritten it with the date, edition prices and everything 4A Games has shown since the reveal.

Metro 2039, the fourth mainline game in 4A Games’ post-apocalyptic shooter series, comes out on February 4, 2027, for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC. Some territories, including Asia, Australia and New Zealand, get it a day later on February 5, according to publisher Deep Silver’s release date announcement.

That lands 294 days after the game’s April 16 reveal, and almost exactly eight years after Metro Exodus came out in February 2019.

Was Metro 2039 delayed?

Not exactly. At the reveal, Xbox Wire said Metro 2039 was due “this winter,” and many fans read that as late 2026. The date Deep Silver announced on September 2, during a PlayStation State of Play, falls in early February. That is still winter in the Northern Hemisphere, so 4A Games kept its window, but anyone expecting the game before the end of 2026 will wait a few weeks longer.

The same announcement confirmed a 60fps Performance Mode with ray tracing at launch on PS5, PS5 Pro and Xbox Series X. Deep Silver says Metro 2039 is the first game in the series built from the ground up for ray tracing.

Editions and prices

When we checked the US PlayStation Store and Steam on October 24, 2026, both listed the same two digital prices: $69.99 for the Standard Edition and $99.99 for the Deluxe Edition. Deep Silver’s pre-order page sets out what each edition includes:

In other words, the extra $30 for the Deluxe Edition mostly pays for the Story Expansion DLC. The soundtrack and art book are the only other additions. The pre-order page does not say what the expansion contains or when it arrives.

The Specialist Pack unlocks three backpack upgrade blueprints early: the Equipment, Chemtech and Munitions Specialist Pouches. You can only equip one at a time. Deep Silver lists Amazon and GameStop as US Collector’s Edition retailers but gives no price, saying pricing varies by retailer and region.

The story: Hunter rules the Metro

Metro 2039 is set a quarter of a century after nuclear war, in the tunnels under Moscow. According to the reveal press release, the Metro’s factions have been united into the Novoreich under a new Führer: “the legendary Spartan, Hunter.” Series fans will remember Hunter as the Ranger who sent Artyom on his journey at the start of Metro 2033.

Artyom is not the lead this time. You play The Stranger, a recluse plagued by violent waking nightmares who is forced back into the Metro. He is the series’ first fully voiced lead character, after three games with a mostly silent hero.

The game is back underground on purpose. Metro Exodus took the series across Russia’s surface, while creative director Andriy “mLs” Shevchenko described Metro 2039 as going “back to the tunnels and leaning into what makes Metro, Metro,” according to Xbox Wire’s recap of the reveal.

What the gameplay footage showed

The first gameplay clip, as described by Xbox Wire, sticks closely to the old Metro formula:

• Handmade weapons and an in-world display, including a wristwatch that counts down
• Nosalis, the series’ mole-like mutants, breaking into a tunnel
• A weapon misfiring as The Stranger flees down an escalator, a hint that ammo and maintenance matter
• A guarded settlement and heavy doors slamming shut on pursuing mutants

The studio calls its approach to level design “frozen stories”: each room is staged with objects and bodies so players can work out what happened there. “Nothing is prefabricated – everything is unique and grounded,” executive producer Jon Bloch told Xbox Wire.

More footage followed in August. At Gamescom 2026, 4A Games showed a gameplay trailer called Renegade at Opening Night Live and had a playable demo on the show floor. Metro 2039 picked up the most nominations at the Gamescom Awards and won Best Visuals, according to Deep Silver’s Gamescom wrap-up.

A Ukrainian studio and an exiled author

4A Games was founded in Kyiv in 2005 and is now headquartered in Malta, but most of its development team is still in Ukraine, according to the press release. The studio has more than 200 people from over 25 nationalities.

The war has shaped the game. Writing on the PlayStation Blog, Bloch said many team members have had to shelter from drone strikes and work on batteries and generators. “War is our reality, and our message has shifted to be about the consequences,” Shevchenko said in the Xbox Wire recap.

Dmitry Glukhovsky, who wrote the Metro novels, is working on the story with the studio. Bloch’s post notes that Glukhovsky lives in exile from Russia and was sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison.

PC requirements and what is still unknown

PC players will have to wait for hardware details. On October 24, Metro 2039’s Steam page listed no minimum or recommended specs beyond a 64-bit processor and operating system. It does list Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing and full controller support, including the DualSense.

None of the official pages we checked mention a Nintendo Switch 2 version or a Game Pass release.

If you want to catch up on the series first, Deep Silver released a next-gen update for Metro Redux, the remastered Metro 2033 and Last Light, in October.