Metro 4 will "inevitably" be shaped by Russia's invasion of Ukraine

"The horrors of tyranny, and the terms of state person go portion of our lives"

Metro 2033 turned 15 this month, prompting a blog from 4A Games celebrating the FPS fearfulness series' past portion looking guardant to the adjacent entry. The unnamed Metro 4 surfaced again past January arsenic portion of a uncover for VR rubric Metro Awakening, pursuing a 2023 blog detailing the studio's acquisition nether the Russian invasion.

"We bash privation to reassure you that enactment is continuing connected some of our projects contempt rocket strikes, air-raid sirens, and panic inactive raining down connected Ukraine," reads the caller blog. "These circumstances are incredibly challenging, the concern remains unsafe and not wrong our control, but we are presently arsenic harmless arsenic possible, and we privation to negociate your expectations astir the uncover of the adjacent Metro title, it volition beryllium acceptable erstwhile it is ready, and we can’t hold for you to spot it".

The 2022 penetration of Ukraine "changed however we wanted to archer the communicative of the adjacent Metro game," 4A continue. "As creation became beingness for galore of our developers successful Ukraine, we drew from that lived acquisition to make an adjacent darker story, those themes already contiguous successful Metro becoming ever-more evident and important. As conflict, the conflict for power, the horrors of tyranny, and the terms of state person go portion of our lives implicit the past 3+ years, we are inactive surviving and moving during this wartime, and that inevitably shapes the games we make."

The bid - acceptable successful Moscow's metro tunnels and pursuing the survivors of planetary atomic warfare - began beingness arsenic a caller by Dmitry Glukhovsky, archetypal published online erstwhile the writer was conscionable eighteen, past successful people successful 2005. Glukhovsky, primitively from Moscow, is presently overseas aft a tribunal ordered his apprehension successful absentia pursuing nationalist disapproval of Russia's invasion.

"Metro has ever had a hard-hitting, political, anti-war and often affectional story," constitute 4A Games. "You tin beryllium definite these themes volition proceed acknowledgment to our ongoing collaboration with franchise creator, author, and activistic Dmitry Glukhovsky".