Metro Redux Gets a Free Next-Gen Update on Xbox Series X|S and PS5

The METRO Redux Next-Gen Update is live today on Xbox Series X|S, bringing a free performance and visual overhaul to METRO 2033 Redux and METRO: Last Light Redux a week after the same update reached PC. PlayStation 5 and PS5 Pro owners get the update the same day. The rollout arrives as 4A Games marks more than 50 million copies sold across the METRO series and sets the stage for METRO 2039, due February 4, 2027.

A free overhaul, not a remake

Deep Silver has been careful to frame the update as a technical pass rather than a ground-up rebuild. In its own announcement, the publisher says the Next-Gen Update preserves "the original Metro Redux experience and aesthetic" rather than replacing it outright. For anyone who already owns either game, the update downloads at no extra cost and applies automatically through each storefront.

The headline change is performance. Both games can now run at a native 4K resolution locked to 60fps, or switch to an upscaled 4K mode that targets a smoother 120fps on displays that support it. 4A TSR upscaling and antialiasing back both modes, which 4A Games says sharpens detail without introducing the shimmering artifacts older upscalers were prone to in cramped Metro tunnels.

Lighting, textures and a console-specific toolkit

Past the frame-rate gains, the update reworks how both campaigns actually look. 4A Games has added higher-resolution textures, a revised lighting and shadow system that touches nearly every corridor of the underground Metro stations, denser environmental detail, and improved character animation. The studio says the changes were tuned deliberately rather than applied as a blanket filter, to keep the series' claustrophobic, lantern-lit tone intact.

The two consoles get slightly different toolkits. Xbox Series X|S leans on 4A's TSR upscaling and antialiasing alongside Spatial Audio support, while PS5 Pro owners gain PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution for its own upscaled image boost. Both METRO 2033 Redux and METRO: Last Light Redux already picked up equivalent PC-side features, including DLSS and FSR upscaling, when the update launched on Steam, the Epic Games Store and GOG on October 22.

Handhelds, haptics and Xbox Play Anywhere

The update also plugs the Redux bundle into hardware that didn't exist when either game first launched. Xbox controllers gain Impulse Trigger support, adding resistance and tactile feedback to weapon reloads and the series' signature bellows-pump flashlight, while DualSense owners get the equivalent through Adaptive Triggers. ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X owners receive full support and optimization for the handhelds, and both games now carry Xbox Play Anywhere entitlement, so a single purchase covers console and PC.

Fifty million copies and one stop before METRO 2039

Deep Silver is using the update to mark a milestone for the franchise: more than 50 million copies of the METRO series sold since the original METRO 2033 launched in 2010. The Next-Gen Update effectively functions as a bridge release, giving newcomers a modern-looking entry point into Artyom's story on current hardware ahead of METRO 2039, which Deep Silver has dated for February 4, 2027, on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.

What Deep Silver hasn't detailed yet

Deep Silver has not published a full, line-by-line patch note list for the console release, saying only that complete technical notes would follow at launch. The publisher's own announcement also doesn't specify whether a player needs to own both Redux titles to receive the update or whether it applies per-game, so anyone holding only one half of the bundle should check their library once the download appears. Nothing here has been announced as a paid expansion or a separate purchase: Deep Silver has been explicit that the update is free for existing owners, with the only new purchase on the table being METRO 2039 itself next year.