What's new with Metro: Redux update, 50 million sales, Golden Joystick, and a multiplayer rumor
Several pieces of Metro news have surfaced recently. Three of them are officially confirmed, while one concerns an unannounced project and should still be treated as a rumor.
🎮 Metro Redux is getting a free update
Deep Silver has announced a free Next-Gen Update for Metro 2033 Redux and Metro: Last Light Redux.
The update launches on October 22, 2026 for PC and October 29 for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 5 Pro, and Xbox Series X|S. Console players in Japan will receive it in November.
The update will be free for existing owners of the Redux games.
The announced improvements include:
- high-resolution textures, including 4K;
- improved lighting, shadows, and particle effects;
- updated animations and audio;
- additional environmental detail;
- bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements;
- native 4K at 60 FPS and upscaled 4K at 120 FPS on compatible consoles;
- PSSR on PS5 Pro and TSR on Xbox Series X;
- DLSS and Spatial Audio on PC.
Additional controller and platform-specific features are also included.
This is not a new remake. It is a free technical upgrade for the existing Redux versions.
📈 Metro reaches 50 million sales
Alongside the update announcement, Deep Silver confirmed that 50 million copies of Metro games have been sold worldwide.
The publisher has not released a detailed breakdown between Metro 2033, Metro: Last Light, Metro Exodus, the Redux releases, and other games in the franchise.
🏆 Metro 2039 nominated at the Golden Joystick Awards
There's also news for Metro 2039 itself.
The game has been nominated in the Most Wanted Game category at the Golden Joystick Awards 2026, alongside other highly anticipated upcoming releases.
The winner is decided by public voting, which remains open until October 23, 2026.
One important detail: Metro 2039 has only been nominated so far. It has not won the award.
⚠️ Rumor: Saber LATAM may have spent years developing a multiplayer Metro game
The final piece of news is not official.
According to Argentine outlet PressOver, Saber LATAM, formerly known as Nimble Giant Entertainment, spent almost six years working on an unannounced multiplayer game set in the Metro universe.
The report claims that around 100 developers may have worked on the project at one point. The team was reportedly trying to combine multiplayer with traditional Metro elements such as dangerous exploration, narrative, isolation, and scarce resources.
PressOver reports that the project was later taken away from Saber LATAM. The studio subsequently went through layoffs, while its operations in Peru and Uruguay were shut down.
There is an important caveat, however.
Saber LATAM's leadership confirmed that the studio lost a major project, but did not publicly confirm that the project was Metro.
4A Games, Deep Silver, and Saber Interactive have also never officially announced such a game or confirmed its current status.
For that reason, there is currently no basis to state that a multiplayer Metro game was cancelled, transferred to another studio, or even to confirm that the reported project was definitely Metro.
This part of the story should therefore be treated strictly as a rumor based on PressOver's reporting.
So there's quite a bit happening around Metro right now. The older games are getting a technical update, the franchise has reached 50 million sales, Metro 2039 has picked up another nomination, and reports of a possible standalone multiplayer project have surfaced in the background.