Metro 2033 News

Forget Fallout, and get the best apocalypse FPS series for under $10

It seems like everyone is talking about the end of the world right now with the success of one post-apocalyptic series on the small screen. There's more than one kind of apocalypse, however, and the Metro series has defined an altogether grimmer and stranger take on what happens after the end of civilization. Now, the Metro Franchise Bundle containing the entire series is on sale at GOG and you can grab it for less than $10.

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Metro Exodus is getting a sequel, shooter’s devs confirm - but only “when it’s ready” (hopefully before 2033)

Flashlights and grubby gas masks at the ready: there will be a sequel to Metro Exodus, the developers of the follow-up to Metro 2033 and Last Light have confirmed. Don’t expect it soon, though, as 4A Games say it’ll arrive “when it’s ready”.

Metro 2033 Redux is free on Epic today

Well, the gifts start coming and they don’t stop coming. The latest free game on the Epic Games Store is Metro 2033 Redux, the revamped version of the spooky shooter set in post-apocalyptic Soviet subways. The game was already a good’un in 2010, then 2014’s Redux fancied up its looks and improved bits like the stealth so yeah, worth getting.

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Today's free game from the Epic Store is set in 2033

Epic's 15 days of free PC games for the holidays continues today with Metro 2033 Redux, the FPS game set in the Moscow underground. You can pick up a free copy this first chapter of the Metro trilogy over at the Epic Store until tomorrow's mystery game is unveiled.

Metro 2033 is based on the novel of the same name by Dmitry Glukhovsky, and it follows Artyom, a survivor of a nuclear war that engulfed the world, as he navigates the factions and hazards that have grown in the Moscow subway system over the course of two decades since the nuclear apocalypse. Artyom finds that he's able to communicate with mysterious and powerful beings known as the Dark Ones, and he's drawn into the effort to destroy the creatures.

It's one of the more thrilling shooter campaigns out there, and the Redux version, which uses the updated version of the 4A engine used in the sequel, Metro: Last Light, introduces a host of improvements and visual enhancements to the 2010 original.

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