With Metro Exodus , the last entry in the series felt more grounded and more outward looking, with the darker psychological unease, which made Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light so popular, only making minor cameos. But the first reveal of Metro 2039 looks like it is dragging the series back into the dark—and then pushing it somewhere even stranger. Dmitry Glukhovsky first published Metro 2033 online after Russian publishers repeatedly turned it down, and the novel built a readership on the...
