New Metro Game Reveal Expected at April 16 State of Play

Six years after Metro Exodus, 4A Games is apparently ready to show the world what comes next. AlexandreNGamR posted on X on April 10 claiming that a new Metro game is set to be announced next week, and insider NateTheHate followed up on ResetEra with a one-word verdict: "True." That's a short response, but from a source who also correctly called the State of Play itself, it carries weight.

The timing lines up. NateTheHate has separately described the April 16 State of Play as "more third-party focused," which would make a Metro reveal a natural fit. 4A Games is not a Sony first-party studio, and a post-apocalyptic survival series with a devoted PC and console fanbase is exactly the kind of announcement that fills out a third-party showcase. Whether the reveal comes as part of that event or drops independently, the window is the same.

What We Already Know About the Next Metro

This isn't coming out of nowhere. Back in March 2025, 4A Games confirmed the next Metro was in active development in a statement that also addressed the studio split that produced La Quimera. The studio was explicit: "We're still making the next Metro with Dmitry Glukhovsky, the same core founders, leadership, developers, and nearly 20 years experience on the series." Glukhovsky, who wrote the original Metro 2033 novel the series is based on, is back as a collaborator. That's not a small detail.

Also in March 2025, 4A spoke about how Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 reshaped the game's direction entirely. The studio's developers are living through the war, and they've drawn from that experience directly. Their words: "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." They described the result as an "even darker" story. Metro Exodus already went to some bleak places, so that's a statement worth sitting with.

Insider Gaming reported back in 2023 that Metro 4 was well into development and fully playable at that point. If that reporting holds, 4A has had a working game for at least two years. The silence since then has been frustrating, but it also suggests a studio that isn't rushing to market. Credit where it's due: after the chaos of the studio split and the very real disruption of working through a war, shipping something polished matters more than shipping something fast.

Last year, 4A also made the original Metro 2033 free as part of the series' 15th anniversary, which drove significant sales across the rest of the catalogue. That kind of momentum-building move, followed roughly a year later by a proper next-game reveal, is a logical sequence. It's almost too clean, which is usually when these things actually happen.

The real question is what form this reveal takes. A teaser trailer with a release window would be enough to send the Metro fandom into orbit. A full gameplay showcase would be something else entirely. Given that the State of Play is reportedly third-party focused and presumably packed with multiple announcements, a cinematic reveal with a 2026 or 2027 release window feels like the most likely outcome. But 4A has been quiet long enough that even a title card and a logo would feel like news.

April 16 is six days away. Sony typically announces State of Play events the day before, sometimes two days out, so confirmation should land by Wednesday at the latest. If the show happens and Metro is on it, this will have been one of the better-telegraphed reveals in recent memory. Sometimes the leaks earn it.

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