Fans of Guerilla's ever-growing Horizon franchise might be pleased to learn that that long-rumoured MMORPG spinoff, "Project Skyline", seems to still be in active development. They might be less thrilled to discover there's nothing to suggest it's coming to PS5 outside of being a Horizon game, expected to launch on PC and mobile in 2025 at the earliest.
That's according to video game researcher Kurakasis, who compiled a bunch of compelling tidbits and posted them to Twitter, and was subsequently picked up by Eurogamer. Kurakasis posits that the project started in 2021, using former NCSoft employees' resumes on LinkedIn and Facebook to construct a timeline and that 140 people worked on it as recently as September of 2023. Further, we get a potential name (as well as a logo), courtesy of the company's domain registration records, "Land of Salvation".
Kurakasis shows a job description highlighting the skills the company is seeking and, glaringly, indicates that the game is currently only being developed for PC and mobile. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean it won't come to PlayStation (we'd be shocked if it didn't); it's just that a port for that platform isn't something being worked on right now.
What do you think? Do you have the appetite for a massively multiplayer Horizon game, or is the series strictly single-player in your mind? Hunt down any lingering thoughts you might have on the subject, and gather them in the comments section below.
[source twitter.com, via eurogamer.net]
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Chances are it maybe for PS6 if it's still sometime away. I'm more intrigued by the Horizon MP spin off really.
I mean, this is 110% focused on the Asian market, so developing this for the PS5 might not be a priority.
Other larger franchises have already had exclusive games for these markets (COD, N4S and so on). Maybe this is their initial plan.
the idea of Horizon MMO sounds good im interested
Oh lord no. I enjoyed the first game even though it took me forever and the ps5 performance patch to actually get me to play through it. I played the 2nd game for a while but got really bored around 5 hours in and i just uninstalled it so the idea of playing this with a shed load of horrible cretins online is a massive turn off. Oh and then there is the cost of building a rig that will play it at an acceptable level on par with what my ps5 would already provide..no thanks.
I imagine it'll be on PS5, PC, and mobile, much like Genshin Impact and games of that ilk.
It's a good setting for a MMO, but when it comes to Horizon, the believability of the ecosystem is much more important to me than single player / multiplayer.
I want the robots to move around more naturally, and interact with each more naturally. Add more Monster Hunter.
Do that, and I'll love the game, MMO or no
Hmm tough one. I don’t think the odd MMO is a bad thing and using a universe already established would be the clever thing to do. I still won’t play it probably as I’m a single player gamer mostly, I only usually go online if a trophy requires it .
@Northern_munkey toy should give forbidden west another go, I spent 198 hours on that game and didn't feel like it really opened up till after 10 hours
Never.
I will never play this or buy this.
Pass...id never play this anyway.
it is going to be dead on arrival. horizon forbidden west only sold 8m copies and was a disaster for sony as compared to the first entry that went on to sell 24m copies. forbidden west will be lucky if it hits 15m copies at the end of its sales cycle. the ip is not growing to sony's expectations and the franchise is already in decline. not every franchise needs or is worthy of 3, 4, 5 sequels. time for guerilla to tackle a new ip.
@Porco I suspect some of the HFW sales would have been lost to the "two-tier DLC" concept.
Mobile game not coming to PS4/5? Well, OK, I don't know how I'll manage without that crap landing on a Playstation console.
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