Summary
Sony has canceled its rumoredHorizonMMO, some newly surfaced evidence suggests. The supposedly shelved project is believed to have been the only upcomingHorizontitle that wasn’t in development at Guerrilla Games, the Dutch studio that created the franchise.
In November 2022, South Korean outlet MTN reported that aHorizonMMORPG was in the works at NCSoft, one of the Far Eastern country’s biggest developer-publishers. The untitled game is said to have been internally code-namedProject H. While neither Sony nor NCSoft ever officially confirmed this claim, the South Korean developer has been posting job listings referencingProject Hever since.
NCSoft’s hiring spree is now said to have reached its end, with a mid-January 2024reportfrom MTN claiming that the company canceled the game. The decision to shelveProject His understood to have originated from Sony, with the Japanese gaming giant supposedly scrapping the idea as a result of a recent viability review. The cancellation call was reportedly made near the end of 2024, while most of the staffers working on the game started being notified about this development in early 2025, when they began receiving new assignments. This was around the time thatSony is said to have canceled two other live-service games: aGod of Warmultiplayer title from Bluepoint and an unknown project from Bend Studio.
Sony Reportedly Canceled Over 10 Live-Service Games in 3 Years
Project His understood to be the sixth live-service title that Sony scrapped in 2024. In addition to theunprecedented failure ofConcord, which was shut down within days of its August 2024 release, Sony also reportedly canceled Bungie’sDestinyspin-off code-namedPaybackand an unknown fantasy game from London Studio, as well as an untitled Neon Koi project. Additionally, the company is said to have shelved a new live-serviceTwisted Metaltitle that was in pre-production at Firesprite in February 2024.
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Unknown game
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Payback (Destiny spin-off)
Unknown fantasy game
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God of War multiplayer game
A Horizon Multiplayer Game Is Still Said to Be on the Horizon
Despite the purported cancellation ofProject H, theHorizonfranchise could still receive a live-service game in the foreseeable future. That would be theHorizonmultiplayer title that’s currently in the works at Guerrilla, which the studio itself confirmed in late 2022. This project may have started development as early as 2018, as suggested by Guerrilla’s job openings.
According to Game Rant’s mid-2024 review of some of Guerrilla’s job listings, theHorizonmultiplayer game may be targeting a PS6 release, and could hence skip the PS5 altogether. Sony’s next-generation console is expected to hit the market between late 2027 and late 2028.
Horizon
The Horizon franchise follows Aloy as she is forced to contend with a series of powerful, towering robotic creatures in a post-apocalyptic landscape. The third-person action-RPG has already seen a sequel with Horizon: Forbidden West and gives players the freedom to explore the open world as they see fit.
