Horizon now stands as one of Sony’s biggest and most successful franchises, and after the success that Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West have enjoyed, it’s no surprise that Guerrilla and Sony want to keep investing in the property in an effort to expand it even further.
Speaking recently during a talk at Develop:Brighton (via GamesRadar), Jan-Bart van Beek, studio director at Guerrilla Games, reiterated the studio’s plans to keep investing in the franchise, saying that Guerrilla is “going to be continuing it for a very long while”. Currently, that constitutes 16 “plans” being in the works.
While not all of these “plans” are new games or releases, some of them certainly are. One of them, of course, is a co-op multiplayer Horizon title. Along witb confirming in December that it was in development, Guerrilla revealed that the game will also feature a “unique stylized look”. Earlier this year, early development alpha gameplay footage also leaked, offering a rough look at the project.
According to van Been, the co-op multiplayer title is going to be “a massive shift for the studio, almost on the same level as doing the first Horizon“. “Building this all out to a multiplayer experience is a whole new challenge for the studio,” he said.
In addition, Guerrilla has also previously confirmed that it will continue to work on single player games in the Horizon universe, and said in April that work on the next mainline title starring series protagonist Aloy was already underway.
Leaks have also claimed that the studio is collaborating with NCSoft for the development of a Horizon MMORPG, and that a remaster of Horizon Zero Dawn is also in the works for PS5.
