For years, there’s been talk of a multiplayer game based on Horizon Zero Dawn in the works, and now such a game has finally been revealed — but not the one you may have expected. Announced with a surprise trailer, Horizon Steel Frontiers is an online Horizon spinoff, but one that’s mysteriously absent from one major platform and not being made by series developer Guerilla Games. The first look at the game is interesting if nothing else, with a mix of elements that are sometimes exciting and sometimes baffling.
Horizon Steel Frontiers is being developed by NCSoft, a long-time publisher of MMORPGs like Lineage and Guild Wars, in collaboration with Guerrilla Games, which is still reportedly working on a different multiplayer Horizon game itself. What sets Horizon Steel Frontiers apart most is that it’s a full MMORPG and that it’s only hitting PC and mobile platforms, rather than heading to PlayStation like the rest of the Horizon franchise.
