Sony is making a Horizon MMO — here’s all the details

The rumored MMO set successful Sony’s post-apocalyptic Horizon universe is existent — and we’ve seen a video spilling details astir the crippled earlier it’s been announced. 

The caller crippled is called Horizon Steel Frontiers, and Sony and the Korean video crippled institution NCSoft are moving connected it together. Based connected a much than 10-minute video we’ve seen featuring a premix of cinematic and pre-alpha gameplay footage arsenic good arsenic developer interviews, the crippled volition absorption powerfully connected warring the Horizon series’ elephantine mechanical beasts and being capable to bash truthful with different people. 

Sony and a PR institution representing NCSoft didn’t instantly reply to a petition for comment. The Verge initially spotted promotional creation for Steel Frontiers connected a website utilized to stock crippled assets that media and influencers are approved to use. The creation seems to person been posted early, possibly up of an announcement astatine the G-Star 2025 lawsuit successful Korea aboriginal tonight. The website besides included a nexus to a Google Drive with unfastened entree that contained the video. According to that website, Steel Frontiers volition beryllium disposable connected PC, iOS, and Android.

Footage from the video shows players taking connected beasts and navigating done lush earthy environments and looming metallic buildings you mightiness beryllium acquainted with if you’ve played the Horizon games.

“Horizon Steel Frontiers is simply a full-fledged MMORPG that NCSoft has built specifically for mobile,” Jan-Bart van Beek, workplace manager astatine PlayStation’s Guerilla Games, says successful the video. “With Steel Frontiers, you tin measurement into this satellite anywhere, anytime. Players instrumentality connected the relation of instrumentality hunters, chasing accidental successful a portion called the Deathlands. This is inspired by Arizona and New Mexico. You’re sharing the frontier with thousands of different players, sometimes moving unneurotic to instrumentality down machines and different times competing with rival tribes oregon warring implicit resources, and that premix of practice and contention creates moments that you could ne'er script.”

“The halfway conception of Horizon Steel Frontiers tin beryllium summed up successful 1 phrase: the thrill of taking down colossal machines,” enforcement shaper Sung-Gu Lee says successful the video. “Hunting monolithic machines was 1 of the top appeals of the archetypal Horizon series. And now, we’re expanding that acquisition into the satellite of MMORPGs.” Lee says determination volition beryllium caller mechanics for warring the machines, similar picking up dropped weapons from beasts and carrying them connected a equine to usage successful aboriginal fights.

The video besides highlights the game’s quality customization features — successful Steel Frontiers, alternatively of playing arsenic Aloy, who has been the bid protagonist truthful far, you’ll beryllium capable to marque your ain character.

There’s nary merchandise day listed successful the video, but Lee says that the squad is moving to marque the crippled disposable “as soon arsenic possible.”