Previously hailed a hero for destroying what he has realized to have been humanity's last light of hope, Artyom is now ostracised by his brethren and viewed as a madman for believing that people have endured World War III in other parts of the country and perhaps outside of its borders too. Now Artyom wanders out onto the surface, climbs the nearby tallest building and tries to make radio contact with the outside world several times a week. He is still convinced: on that fateful day at the Ostankino Tower, just before he and his fellow Rangers rained fire on the Dark Ones, he heard a transmission from outside of Moscow. However, our battle-hardened young protagonist is not keen on spending the rest of his days in the darkness of the tunnels. The Fourth Reich has seen a number of reforms to give it a more welcoming image both for newcomers and its longtime citizens (with an even darker underbelly of horrifyingly efficient secrets than before), the Red Line is struck by an epidemic that renders their mushrooms inedible and leads them to experience what seems to be their largest famine yet, while the Rangers of the Order appear to have become suspiciously close with Hanza after having suffered heavy losses at an important battle for control of a bunker.Īrtyom, after having willingly left the Order and married Anna in spite of Miller's disapproval, is living a quiet life with his wife on VDNKh. Its story begins in a quite different metro to that of 20, but in the end the world of post-apocalyptic Moscow is left turned almost completely on its head.īy 2035, the strange world of Glukhovsky's post-apocalyptic Moscow Metro has changed considerably. Its Artyom is also a much more mature person than he was in the first part of the trilogy. It features characters returning from previous novels, such as Sukhoi plus others from Metro 2034, as well as new personas like Ilja Stiepanovich Shkurkin. It has more sexual themes than Glukhovsky's previous works, but is not quite as violent as some of the Universe of Metro 2033 books. Metro 2035 is the sequel to both Metro 2033 and Metro 2034, whilst having its own unique tone and atmosphere.

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