Xbox will unveil the next Metro game on Thursday, April 16, with a digital-only broadcast called Xbox First Look: Metro 2039. The show will feature 4A Games and Deep Silver and is set to deliver a world-premiere look at the next title in the long-running series.
The broadcast begins at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern and 6 p.m. UK time, and will stream as a YouTube Premiere on YouTube.com/Xbox. Xbox also said viewers will be able to follow along with subtitles in Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Slovakian, Spanish (Castilian), Spanish (MX), Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish and Ukrainian. An English audio description version will be available on the Xbox YouTube channel, along with an American Sign Language version.
Xbox said Metro 2039 will be the fourth mainline entry from 4A Games in the series based on the novels of Dmitry Glukhovsky. The earlier games were Metro 2033, released in 2010, Metro: Last Light in 2013 and Metro Exodus in 2019, all set around survivors of nuclear devastation living in the Moscow subway tunnels and the world beyond them.
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The timing matters because Xbox is not just teasing the title; it is opening the door on the next chapter of a franchise that has remained closely tied to the platform. The company said the series has always had a home on Xbox, and it will publish a recap immediately after the show ends, with localized versions in Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, LATAM Spanish and Japanese.
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The remaining question is not whether Metro 2039 will appear this week. It will. The important detail now is how much of the game Xbox is willing to show in a broadcast built around a first look, and whether that preview is enough to set the tone for the series’ return.
