Metro 2039 supports 15 languages on Steam. Twelve of them get full voice acting, including English, German and Ukrainian, three are text only, and Russian is not on the list at all. The game launches on 4 February 2027 according to 4A Games and Deep Silver as of 13 November 2026, so the language list below comes from the stores and the official FAQ, not from a finished game. Here is the full table, what the Ukrainian dub means, what the stores say about Russian and where the store listings differ.
Short answer: 15 languages, 12 with full audio
The Steam page for Metro 2039 lists 15 languages. Twelve come with interface, full audio and subtitles. Three, Czech, Turkish and Korean, have the interface and subtitles translated but no voice track of their own.
If you play in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Japanese or Brazilian Portuguese, you get the whole package: menus, subtitles and voices in your language. The same goes for Ukrainian and for both variants of Chinese.
The release date is covered in detail in our release date guide. Platforms are PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC via Steam, Epic Games Store and Xbox on PC.
All languages: interface, audio and subtitles
This is the language table as Steam lists it on 13 November 2026:
| Language | Interface | Full audio | Subtitles |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | yes | yes | yes |
| German | yes | yes | yes |
| French | yes | yes | yes |
| Italian | yes | yes | yes |
| Spanish (Spain) | yes | yes | yes |
| Spanish (Latin America) | yes | yes | yes |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | yes | yes | yes |
| Polish | yes | yes | yes |
| Ukrainian | yes | yes | yes |
| Japanese | yes | yes | yes |
| Simplified Chinese | yes | yes | yes |
| Traditional Chinese | yes | yes | yes |
| Czech | yes | no | yes |
| Turkish | yes | no | yes |
| Korean | yes | no | yes |
The official Deep Silver FAQ splits the list the same way into “full localisation” and “text localisation”. The only difference is Chinese. The FAQ puts Simplified and Traditional Chinese under text localisation while also promising Mandarin voice acting, whereas Steam and the Xbox Store list full audio for both variants. Until launch, Steam is the more detailed source: Chinese in both variants with voice acting.
Ukrainian voice acting
Ukrainian is one of the fully voiced languages. Steam lists it with interface, full audio and subtitles, and the Deep Silver FAQ names it among the full localisations with the words “and of course Ukrainian”.
The context comes from the studio itself. 4A Games was founded in Kyiv in 2005, moved its headquarters to Malta in 2014 and has offices in Malta and Ukraine. Most of the team works in Kyiv and remotely across Ukraine. 4A says the story of Metro 2039 is told from a Ukrainian perspective and that Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 directly shaped the game. More on the setting is in our Metro 2039 overview.
No Russian at all: what the stores list
Russian is not supported in any form. Steam does not have it among its 15 languages, so there is no Russian interface, no Russian subtitles and no Russian voice track. The Xbox Store (Czech market) lists Russian as an unsupported language.
Neither 4A Games nor Deep Silver has given a reason, and we are not going to guess one. For comparison, the earlier games are different: Metro 2033 Redux, Metro Last Light Redux and Metro Exodus on Steam have both Russian and Ukrainian voice acting.
A fully voiced protagonist for the first time
The language question matters more than in earlier Metro games because the hero now talks. The new protagonist, the Stranger, is the first fully voiced main character in the series. Artyom, the hero of the previous games, did not speak during gameplay.
That means the voice track carries more of the story than before. If you play in Czech, Turkish or Korean, you will hear the Stranger in one of the voiced languages and read the subtitles.
Store differences: Xbox lists 14
The stores do not agree completely, so here is what each of them shows on 13 November 2026:
- Steam – 15 languages, 12 with full audio, including Ukrainian.
- Xbox Store (Czech market) – 14 languages. Ukrainian is missing from the list, Russian is marked as unsupported.
- PlayStation Store – the product page does not list any languages yet.
- Deep Silver FAQ – full localisation includes Ukrainian.
We follow Steam and the official FAQ, which both list Ukrainian with voice acting, and will check the Xbox list again at launch. Hardware questions are a separate topic, see our system requirements page; official PC specs are not out yet.
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FAQ
Yes. English is one of the 12 languages with interface, full audio and subtitles on Steam.
No. Steam does not list Russian at all and the Xbox Store marks it as unsupported. 4A Games and Deep Silver have not given a reason.
Yes. Steam lists Ukrainian with full audio and the Deep Silver FAQ includes it among the full localisations. The Xbox Store list does not show Ukrainian yet.
Steam lists 15: 12 with full voice acting and 3 (Czech, Turkish, Korean) with interface and subtitles only. The game launches on 4 February 2027 according to 4A Games and Deep Silver as of 13 November 2026.
Yes. The Stranger is the first fully voiced protagonist in the series. Artyom did not speak during gameplay in the earlier games.
Information verified on 13 November 2026. We will update this article once the official requirements are out and again after launch, when we can check the languages in every store. All guides are in our Metro 2039 section.