Summary
A new Guerrilla Games job listing may hint at the studio being quite confident in the appeal of its upcomingHorizonmultiplayer project. Although theHorizonmultiplayer game has yet to be revealed, Guerrilla Games seems to expect massive player interest in the live-service title.
Ever since the launch ofHorizon Forbidden Westin 2022 and itsBurning ShoresDLC the following year, not much news has come out of Guerrilla other than its collaborations for smaller projects likeHorizon Zero Dawn RemasteredandLEGO HorizonAdventures. For many years, though, there’s been plenty of evidence to suggest thatGuerrilla is working on aHorizonmultiplayer game. Guerrilla job listings going as far back as 2018 have alluded to the existence of aHorizonmultiplayer project, and in 2025, it remains all but confirmed.
While it’s still unclear whenGuerrilla plans to announce itsHorizonmultiplayer project, a new finding may indicate that the studio has lofty ambitions for the game’s player numbers. As per a recent job listing for a Senior Platform Engineer,Guerrilla might be expecting over one million players for theHorizonmultiplayer game. This was hinted at in the role’s requirements, where one of them mentions “proven experience building and operating multi service, 1M+ user globally distributed systems across multiple public cloud providers.” It seems Guerrilla could also be building a robust live-service infrastructure for theHorizonmultiplayer project that can support more than one million players.
Guerrilla Might Be Ensuring a Trouble-Free Launch for the Horizon Multiplayer Game
Conversely, this may be less of an expectation for Guerrilla and more of a precautionary measure to ensure players face no difficulties during theHorizonmultiplayer game’s onboarding process. For instance,Helldivers 2’s servers were extremely overwhelmedfor a few weeks due to the game’s unexpectedly immense popularity on PS5 and PC, acting as a hindrance for both existing and new players. Therefore, it wouldn’t be too unreasonable to assume that Guerrilla wishes to avoid such a situation for theHorizonmultiplayer game. While there isn’t any guarantee that theHorizonmultiplayer game will see similar levels of success asHelldivers 2, one can’t fault Guerrilla for wanting to come prepared regardless.
TheHorizonmultiplayer game has been in development for several years, so assuming it isn’t facing any major issues behind the scenes, Guerrilla might just be gearing up to reveal the live-service title this year. A few months ago, a Guerrilla job listing insinuated that anewHorizongame could be released in 2025. Since the third mainlineHorizonentry is still a ways off, the purported 2025 game may very well be theHorizonmultiplayer project.
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.
