Metro 2035

World War Three wiped out humanity. The planet is empty now. Huge cities turned to dust and ashes. Railroads are being eaten by rust. Abandoned satellites hang lonely in orbit. The radio is silent on all frequencies.

The only survivors of the last war were those who made it through the gates of the Metro, the subway system of Moscow. Hundreds of feet below the ground, in the vaults of what was built as the world’s largest air-raid shelter, people try to outlive the end of days. It is there that they created a new world for themselves.

The stations of the Metro became city-states, and their citizens, torn apart by religions and ideologies, fight for scarce commodities: air, water, and space.

This tiny underground world only reminds people of the vast surface world they once mastered.

Twenty years after Doomsday, survivors refuse to give up. The most stubborn cherish a dream: when radiation levels from the nuclear bombings subside, they will return to the surface and reclaim the life their parents once had.

But the most stubborn of all continues to search for other survivors in this vast emptiness that was once called Earth.

His name is Artyom. He would give anything to lead his people from the underground back to the surface.

And he will.