{"id":2080,"date":"2025-04-15T09:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T09:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2025-04-15T23:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T23:05:31","slug":"one-of-the-best-post-apocalyptic-games-is-free-now-via-metro-2033-bargain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/one-of-the-best-post-apocalyptic-games-is-free-now-via-metro-2033-bargain\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the best post-apocalyptic games is free now via Metro 2033 bargain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Metro 2033 \u2013 a different kind of post-apocalypse (4A Games)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you\u2019ve always wanted to try out the Metro series, a remastered version of the first game is currently a free download.<\/p>\n

Last month marked the 15th anniversary of the Metro series of first person shooter video games<\/a>. While developer 4A Games already put out an anniversary video to celebrate the occasion, it\u2019s keeping the celebrations going beyond just that.<\/p>\n

Out of nowhere, 4A Games has made Metro 2033 Redux<\/a>, the 2014 remaster of the very first Metro game, free to everyone.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s very old now but it\u2019s a great game and this is the perfect opportunity for newcomers to experience the first entry before the promised new title appears\u2026 but you\u2019ll want to act quickly.<\/p>\n

How to get Metro 2033 Redux for free<\/h2>\n

Metro 2033 Redux is currently free as a digital download on Steam and GOG. 4A Games\u2019 announcement on X<\/a> also mentions it should be free on the Xbox store as well \u2013 although when we checked it was still listed at \u00a315.99.<\/p>\n

Judging by responses from fans, we\u2019re not the only ones having trouble and 4A Games has said it\u2019s looking into it, but in the meantime, it\u2019s offered a solution<\/a>: \u2018If you go through to the game page itself the button will change to \u2018install\u2019 \u2013 not sure why it comes up as full price on the search navigation.\u2019<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re at all interested in playing Metro 2033 Redux, we recommend you download it ASAP, since the offer will end on Wednesday, April 16 at 4pm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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In celebration of #Metro15<\/a> Metro 2033 Redux is FREE on #Steam<\/a> #GOG<\/a> and #Xbox<\/a> for the next 48 hours! If you have not experienced the game that started it all, do it, now!Ends April 16 at 5PM CET | 9AM PT pic.twitter.com\/dFD5P2uHMy<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Metro (@MetroVideoGame) April 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n

Will there be another Metro game?<\/h2>\n

4A Games has confirmed that it is working on a new Metro game. It shared the news last month, as part of the initial anniversary celebrations, via an update on its website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Exact details are slim, but 4A Games has said that its next game will be heavily influenced by the ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict. For those who don\u2019t know, 4A Games is currently based in Sliema, Malta but was founded in Kyiv, Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u2018As art became life for many of our developers in Ukraine, we drew from that lived experience to create an even darker story, those themes already present in Metro becoming ever-more apparent and important,\u2019 wrote 4A Games.<\/p>\n

\u2018As 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.\u2019<\/p>\n

The studio also closely collaborates with Dmitry Glukhovsky, author of the original Metro books, who has been very outspoken with his criticisms of Russia and faces an eight year prison sentence<\/a> if he ever returns to the country.<\/p>\n

\u2018Dmitry has always spoken out against the war in Ukraine from the start \u2013 a courageous decision for any Russian, that has seen him sentenced to jail (in absentia) \u2013 and we are proud to have him as a friend and co-creator as we tell this next, and never more relevant chapter of Metro together. Rest assured, you are in for quite the ride.\u2019<\/p>\n

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The last entry was 2024\u2019s Metro Awakening but that was a VR game not developed by 4A Games (Vertigo Games)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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For more stories like this,\u00a0check our Gaming page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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