
One for the ages, and on multiple levels. Crapsack World: Oh boy howdy, you'd better believe it.
Both media are careful to avoid Continuity Lockout though - each mediums version is self-sufficient, and the details dont always line up, but certain things are clearer or more developed if youve seen both. Metro 2035 refers to elements of Last Light, and Metro Exodus follows up on some elements of 2035.
Broad Strokes: As Glukhovsky is also involved in writing the plots for the game adaptations, events from the games are implied to have happened in the novels, but the specifics are vague and occasionally contradictory. Whilst this error is excusable for the sake of narrative, it is still somewhat perplexing, as a bit of research shows that the ground beneath Glasgow is lousy with abandoned mineshafts, which could well be deep enough to shelter in the event of nuclear war. The Glasgow subway is not sunk deep enough note Moscow Metro average depth: ~33-55 metres - Glasgow subway average depth: 8.8 metres to defend against even conventional strikes note damage from fascist bombing, as well as the remains of the destroyed Merkland Street station, can still be seen in the tunnels south of Partick Station), it isn't nearly large enough to support any population in the way the Moscow Metro note Moscow Metro length: at least 192 miles - Glasgow subway length: 6.5 miles can. Artistic License Geography: One of the expanded universe novels, Британия note Britannia, features Scottish survivors of the Great War living in the Glasgow subway ◊. After the End: The series takes place twenty or so years after a nuclear war rendered most of the surface world uninhabitable.