Sony and NCSoft Announce Horizon Steel Frontiers, a New Mobile-First MMORPG Set in Guerrilla's Horizon Universe — Check Out the Debut Trailer

NCSoft and Sony person announced Horizon Steel Frontiers, a caller MMORPG acceptable successful Guerrilla’s Horizon beingness designed specifically for mobile.

South Korean video crippled institution NCSoft, champion known for MMOs specified arsenic Guild Wars and Lineage, has yet confirmed its long-rumored concern with Sony and Guerrilla to physique a Horizon MMO, and revealed the crippled via a 10-minute improvement diary and gameplay video, below.

Horizon Steel Frontiers is simply a massively multiplayer instrumentality connected Horizon, implicit with quality customization, societal features, and raid-style brag fights. It looks similar it has taken inspiration from Capcom’s Monster Hunter successful presumption of the PvE gameplay, though with Horizon’s trademark robot dinosaur enemies.

You play a instrumentality huntsman successful the Deadlands and enactment with and against different players to decision enemies and vie for resources. It’s not wide yet wherever Horizon Steel Frontiers takes spot successful the overarching Horizon timeline, if astatine all, nor is determination clarity connected whether we’ll spot immoderate acquainted faces successful the game, specified arsenic bid protagonist Aloy.

There’s nary merchandise day either, but we bash cognize Horizon Steel Frontiers is chiefly built for mobile devices (Guerrilla Games workplace caput Jan-Bart van Beek says arsenic overmuch successful the video). It volition besides beryllium playable connected PC via Purple, NCSoft’s proprietary crippled platform. There’s nary notation of a PlayStation merchandise oregon a wider console launch. Check retired IGN’s Horizon Steel Frontiers trailer breakdown to find retired what we could stitchery from the video.

The announcement of Horizon Steel Frontiers comes arsenic Guerrilla is reportedly moving connected a multiplayer unrecorded work Horizon crippled of its own, though this is expected to motorboat connected PlayStation 5 and, perhaps, PC. Guerrilla confirmed the beingness of this long-rumored multiplayer crippled successful December 2022, revealing done a occupation listing that it would diagnostic a marque caller formed of characters and a caller creation style.

Meanwhile, a full-blown sequel to 2022’s Horizon: Forbidden West is besides said to beryllium successful improvement astatine the studio, arsenic "Aloy's adjacent adventure" was mentioned successful April 2023. This volition yet articulation the archetypal 2 games alongside PlayStation VR2 spin-off Horizon: Call of the Mountain arsenic mainline entries successful the franchise.

Horizon is 1 of the biggest PlayStation franchises around, with 32.7 cardinal units sold crossed each titles arsenic of April 16, 2023. Sony announced the live-action Horizon movie backmost successful January during Sony's CES 2025 property conference. Last month, it was reported that Sony hoped to commencement filming successful 2026 with a merchandise astatine immoderate constituent successful 2027.

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