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Metro 15th Anniversary Update — 4A Games

Hello everyone, We shared with you earlier this month that we wanted to tell you more about the status of our team and our future, so what better opportunity to do so as celebration of Metro’s 15th anniversary. In honor of the incredible 15 years of Metro, w

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Metro turns 15

The legacy and success of Metro over the past decade and a half is something we at 4A Games are incredibly proud of. It actually started 20 years ago when 4A Games was founded, and inspired by Dmitry Glukhovsky’s then online novel, we began to work on our inaugural title of the same name, Metro 2033. Our partnership has continued, and he is working with us on our next Metro title, but more on that later.

Studio

Alongside the evolution of Metro, our studio has also been on a journey from releasing our first game with a 60-person team in 2010, to now 200+ across two locations – From Kyiv, where 150 of our development team are based, to our headquarters in Sliema, Malta, following our expansion in 2014 – with two triple-A projects in development – The next Metro of course, and a brand-new unannounced IP. Using everything we have learned over the past 20 years we are pushing our ambitions even higher than ever before.

The next Metro

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 3+ years, we are still living and working during this wartime, and that inevitably shapes the games we make.

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.

 

[Gonzito]

Can't wait man, I love the Metro franchise

 

[RagnarokIV]

I would like them to reboot and make it closer to the book and with the same visuals.

 

[CGNoire]

I wish they would give Metro a Break for awhile and focus 100% on something new.

 

[DrMano]

I played Metro: Exodus at release and thought it was the most beautiful FPS game ever made. I need to go verify that again.

I also thought that the dialogue was cringy and a downgrade from previous installments; need to go verify that as well.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

I played the first two but the third one is open world? It was better as story driven jank.

 

[Puscifer]

This was wild to read, I had no idea


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.

 

[TheRedRiders]

I fucking loved Exodus, deliver us a masterpiece 4A!! Love you guys!