4A Games and Deep Silver gave gamers a look at Metro 2039, the sequel to 2019’s Metro Exodus, during the Xbox showcase at Summer Game Fest 2026. Developers showed off almost three minutes of in-game footage.
In addition to a look at the gameplay and Hunter, we learned that Metro 2039 will release in February 2027 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC.
“We called this trailer HUNTER for one reason – it’s all about him,” developers said in the trailer description. “In April, we revealed that our antagonist was not just ‘Fuhrer,’ but none other than the first Spartan himself, Hunter. Today, we get our first in-game look at him, adorned in decorated Novoreich uniform, a fascist perversion of the iconic Spartan armour. His image can be seen all over, his presence looming over the Metro in crumbling posters, flickering propaganda, and towering statues.”
The year is 2039. For a quarter century, the last survivors of nuclear war have been locked in bitter conflict deep in the Metro tunnels beneath the poisoned city of Moscow. Now, finally, they have been united by a single leader, a fanatical Spartan known as Hunter.
But this is no peace: Hunter’s Novoreich regime rules through propaganda and fear, subjugating the population in the name of a new war for the surface against a dark and terrifying enemy.
In the wilderness beyond the city, the reclusive Stranger is haunted by violent waking nightmares. When the ghosts of his past force him out of exile, he must undertake a harrowing journey into the shattered ruins of Moscow, to the one place he swore he’d never go.
The Metro.
