Post-apocalyptic settings have always had a unique pull across every form of media, and few game series have captured that atmosphere as well as Metro. That’s why the Metro 2039 announcement has me excited.
With Metro Exodus, the last entry in the series felt more grounded and more outward-looking, with the darker psychological unease, which made Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light so popular, only making minor cameos. But the first reveal of Metro 2039 looks like it is dragging the series back into the dark—and then pushing it somewhere even stranger.
Metro started as rejected online fiction, and that weird DNA is still here
Dmitry Glukhovsky first published Metro 2033 online after Russian publishers repeatedly turned it down, and the novel built a readership on the web before it became a printed hit. That outsider energy matters because Metro has always felt a little weirder
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