Metro

Metro is a genuine two-medium franchise where neither side is an afterthought. Dmitry Glukhovsky's novels, Metro 2033 and Metro 2034, imagine survivors of nuclear war huddled in the tunnels of the Moscow underground, each station its own fragile city-state.

4A Games turned that world into a distinctive shooter series. Metro 2033 and Last Light are claustrophobic, resource-starved, story-driven corridors, while Metro Exodus opens up into semi-open landscapes above ground without losing the survival tension. Metro Awakening VR extends the fiction into virtual reality.

What sets Metro apart from other post-apocalyptic games is restraint. Bullets double as currency, your gas mask cracks and fogs, and the design constantly reminds you that the surface is poison. The horror is environmental, not just monstrous.

The Metro franchise spans 2 books, 6 games in the CrossBinge catalog.