February 4, 2027 is now locked in for Metro 2039 across PlayStation 5, XBOX Series X|S, and PC, and 4A Games confirmed the date during State of Play today alongside the world debut of console gameplay, captured on PlayStation 5 Pro. The PlayStation Blog post only mentions Sony’s hardware, but publisher Deep Silver’s own announcement confirms a simultaneous launch on all platforms, with the PC version on Steam, the Epic Games Store, and XBOX on PC. The date slips to February 5 in some territories, including Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.
The February window itself has been public since June, when the gameplay trailer at the XBOX Games Showcase narrowed the original winter target down to a month. As of gamescom last week, where 4A Games showed a second trailer and revealed a Collector’s Edition built around a full-size replica of The Stranger’s Spartan helmet, the official site was still listing February 2027 without a day.
When Metro 2039 was revealed in April, I said it looked like 4A Games hadn’t lost a step when it comes to atmospheric horror, and the studio is still stressing that this is first and foremost a solo, story-driven FPS. Today’s footage picks up just after The Stranger, the game’s new protagonist, leaves the tunnels for the thawing ruins of Moscow in search of a Novoreich fortress built into a nearby dam. 4A Games describes him as a former Spartan whose armor marks him as a wolf, even a potential hero, and then says he’s far worse than that. The sequence, captured from the same campaign content that was playable at gamescom, shows off a charged Shatun rifle for silenced headshots, Molotovs for clearing rooms, and a Duplet shotgun for up-close work, with radiation to manage in between.
Like every Metro game 4A Games has made, Metro 2039 runs on the studio’s proprietary 4A Engine, and 4A is pointing to Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition in 2021 as one of the early examples of 60 FPS ray tracing on PlayStation 5. Both PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Pro get ray tracing here, including a dedicated Performance Mode at 60 FPS. Deep Silver’s release goes a step further and says a Performance Mode with 4K, 60 FPS, and ray tracing will be available at launch on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 5 Pro, and XBOX Series X, with no mention of XBOX Series S, and that more on technical specs and graphics modes is coming in the months ahead.
4A Games, which is developing Metro 2039 in Ukraine and Malta amid Russia’s ongoing invasion, says more on the story, gameplay, technology, and PlayStation 5 features is coming down the line. The game is available to wishlist on the PlayStation Store now, with preorders going live later this year. If you want to catch up on the story first, Metro Exodus joined the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog last month.
