Metro: Last light will be available for free this week

To celebrate its 10th anniversary, 4A Games is letting anyone hold its seminal sequel, Metro Last Light, for free on Steam between May 18-25. Once you’ve added the game to your Steam library, it stays with you.

Metro: Last Light directly follows the beginning of the game series, metro 2033, continuing the story of Artyom and his fight for survival in the harrowing tunnels beneath a post-apocalyptic Russian metropolis. The sequel honored the mechanics of the first, maintaining the tough-as-nails first-person action while improving it with polished gunplay and less-obscure mechanics. This is a game that looked great when it launched and continues to turn heads today.

If you never got a chance to enjoy Metro: Last Light or have let it slip in your backlog for over a decade, you can make up for it by playing one of the best shooters of last generation for free on Steam. Can

Metro: Exodus, which launched in 2019, is the most recent entry in the series, with developer 4A Games reportedly working on a sequel. The author of the book series that adapted the games (who is also currently a wanted man in Russia for speaking out against the war in Ukraine) confirmed in 2019 that a A sequel to Exodus was in development, A report earlier this year suggested that this fourth game entry is progressing well and may could potentially be revealed this year,

Back in 2013, we provided a sequel to 4A Games from 9/10 in our Metro: Last Light Reviewsaying, “Last Light is notably better than its predecessor in merging the storytelling, shooting, and riffing into a remarkable and cohesive whole.”