Metro
A compact world built around three central novels and the Metro game series, from the Moscow tunnels to the journey of Exodus.
Metro begins in the tunnels beneath a ruined Moscow, where stations have become small political societies and the surface is a dangerous frontier. Dmitry Glukhovsky's novels use that setting to combine post-apocalyptic survival with ideology, fear and the stories people build to explain the unknown.
4A Games adapted Metro 2033 and then developed its own continuation around Artyom. The games share the atmosphere and many ideas of the books but are not a scene-by-scene transcription, which makes Metro one of the clearest examples of a literary world becoming a distinct game continuity.
Books
The written spine of the world.
Games
Where the world stops being observed and starts responding.
Film & TV
The world reimagined through performance, sound and moving image.
Inside Metro
People, places, houses, artifacts and creatures connected across the world.
Anna
A Spartan Ranger and one of Artyom’s closest companions.
Artyom
The central protagonist whose journeys connect the original novel and the main games.
D6
A secret military complex that becomes important to the wider story.
Moscow Metro
The underground transit system transformed into the central inhabited landscape of the Metro world.
Gas mask
Essential survival equipment for contaminated surface environments.
Military-grade rounds
Pre-war ammunition that also functions as a valuable currency in the Metro.
Dark One
A mysterious post-human species central to the first Metro story.
Nosalis
A recurring mutant creature encountered in the underground.