It sounded too good to be true and it actually was. The official site for Metro 2035, the final book in the trilogy that inspired 4A Games’ acclaimed video game series, revealed that a new game would be coming in 2017. Deep Silver hadn’t formally announced anything but it’s now confirmed in a new Facebook post that a sequel isn’t coming.

“As the exclusive rights holder to video games set in the Metro 2033 universe, Deep Silver has ambitious plans for the hugely successful Metro series. But just to manage our fans’ expectations – releasing the next Metro game in 2017 is not one of them. When we have more news to share, we will.”

The Metro 2035 website has now been updated to reflect “An untitled Metro project” which states: “But the Metro saga doesn’t end where the books leave us…An era of great discoveries lies ahead!” There’s no release date for this sadly.

4A Games has been quiet on whether we’d see a new game in the Metro series but the official website for the novel Metro 2035 has been updated to confirm a sequel for 2017. You’ll see it at the bottom as “The next Metro video game” slated for the coming year.

Metro 2035 will be the final book in the trilogy and sees Artyom leading his people back to the world above. It promises characters from all books and games eventually meeting up and the world turning upside down as a result. After that though? As per the website, “It all adds up to something. Where the books end their story, the game will pick it up. An era of great discoveries lies ahead…”

4A Games has been on a VR title called Artika.1 for some time now but indicated that it was only one of two projects that were in development. We’ll wait for more confirmation from the developer and publisher Deep Silver in the meantime.