{"id":75485,"date":"2026-04-14T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75485"},"modified":"2026-04-14T17:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:36:25","slug":"metro-2039-will-be-darker-than-anything-youve-seen-before-book-author-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75485","title":{"rendered":"Metro 2039 Will Be &#8220;Darker Than Anything You&#8217;ve Seen Before,&#8221; Book Author Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Metro game series has never shied away from dark, disturbing subject matter, with warring factions fighting for control over what&#8217;s left of a devastated post-nuclear-apocalypse Moscow. Despite this, series author Dmitry Glukhovsky says Metro 2039 is shaping up to be even darker.<\/p>\n<p>Writing on Twitter (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/metro-author-dmitry-glukhovsky-says-the-next-game-in-the-series-will-be-darker-than-anything-youve-seen-before\/\">PC Gamer<\/a>), Glukhovsky made a very bold statement: &#8220;This Metro game will be darker than anything you&#8217;ve seen before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div data-embed-type=\"tweet\" data-src=\"https:\/\/x.com\/glukhovsky\/status\/2044006810420482352\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This Metro game will be darker than anything you\u2019ve seen before<\/p>\n<p> \u2014 \u0414\u043c\u0438\u0442\u0440\u0438\u0439 \u0413\u043b\u0443\u0445\u043e\u0432\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 (@glukhovsky) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/glukhovsky\/status\/2044006810420482352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a series that has seen the absolute plight of humanity, as well as the mysterious Dark Ones, all while enormous, mutated animal creatures reign supreme above the metro station. It&#8217;s a series where you&#8217;re often given two choices, both of which are dark and disturbing, and must determine which one is the least horrible. Death is just around the corner for nearly any character, and there is very slim hope for the future. If Glukhovsky is this confident about 2039, then it might be best to alternate with something a little more cheerful when it eventually releases.<\/p>\n<p>As for Glukhovsky, he remains exiled from Russia, where he was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-crackdown-navalny-court-dmitry-glukhovsky-4d35046224f7f0f2cba076bb1544fe4a\">convicted in absentia<\/a> for his anti-war writings since<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Metro game series has never shied away from dark, disturbing subject matter, with warring factions fighting for control over what&#8217;s left of a devastated post-nuclear-apocalypse Moscow. Despite this, series author Dmitry Glukhovsky says Metro 2039 is shaping up to be even darker. Writing on Twitter (via PC Gamer), Glukhovsky made a very bold statement:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":75487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75488,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75485\/revisions\/75488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}