Guerrilla Games wants everyone to know that they are still dedicated to single-player games despite the announcement of Horizon Hunters Gathering.
If you've been paying attention to the PlayStation fanbase over the last few years, you'll have no doubt seen the fear caused by Sony seemingly focusing its efforts on multiplayer titles. Concord obviously had a lot of negativity surrounding it, as did the now-cancelled The Last of Us multiplayer project at Naughty Dog, and the news that the first game Bluepoint was working on under Sony was apparently a live-service God of War game.
So with that growing sentiment, it's not entirely a surprise that with the announcement of Guerrilla Games' new Horizon multiplayer game, along with the opportunity to sign up for the Horizon Hunters Gathering playtest, the studio was quick to acknowledge the elephant in the room. Even before the game was shown off, Guerrilla studio director Jan-Bart Van Beek explained, "I want to be very clear about one thing. We absolutely love making single-player games, and we're going to keep making them."
He continues that single-player is "a huge part of who we are as a studio." However, Van Beek explained, "we also have this long-standing dream to try to do something different. Our own take on how you can explore the world of Horizon together as a team of machine hunters." Hey, that's pretty much exactly what Horizon Hunters Gathering is.
While there was no news on whether a potential Horizon 3 is being worked on simultaneously, the fact that the studio's first priority was to emphasize that single-player games aren't going away is enough to give fans some hope that the third iteration is still on track to release sooner rather than later.
