Metro Exodus has sold over 8 million copies.

Does anyone say that purely single player big budget shooters can’t be successful? If so, then the creators of the Metro series at 4A Games would certainly disagree. Embracer Group, which owns 4A Games, recently announced at its quarterly investor conference that Metro Exodus as of 2019, it has sold a solid 8.5 million copies..

This year alone, between January/January and March/March 2023, more than 500,000 units of the third Metro game based on the writer’s books have been sold. Dmitry Glukhovsky. And what else, According to Embracer, over 10 million players have played Metro Exodus..

However, it is difficult to say what exactly should be included in this number. That is, given the market sale of console versions, Family Sharing on Steam, or other ways to put yourself in the shoes of Artyom on his journey through post-apocalyptic Russia without buying the game first hand. In every case it’s clear that Metro Exodus was a commercial successwhich continues not only thanks to all sorts of discount promotions.

Nothing changes in the future of the Metro series. So it’s still true that 4A Games studio, based in Ukraine and Malta, is currently preparing a brand new Metro, which, according to some unconfirmed reports, should already be fully playable. In addition, a few months ago we officially learned that the history and message of the new Metro will be affected by the war in Ukraine. Which isn’t surprising, given that the Metro series has always been more or less political in both the book and the game, and that the lives of many 4A Games employees have been turned upside down by the invading Russian forces.