You are Artyom, born in the last days before the fire, but raised underground. An entire generation has been born and raised underground, and their besieged Metro Station-Cities struggle for survival, with each other, and the mutant horrors that await outside. In 2013 the world was devastated by an apocalyptic event, annihilating almost all mankind and turning the Earth's surface into a poisonous wasteland.Ī handful of survivors took refuge in the depths of the Moscow underground, and human civilization entered a new Dark Age.