Another PlayStation Live-Service Game Reportedly Canceled

Sony has canceled its rumored Horizon MMO, some newly surfaced evidence suggests. The supposedly shelved project is believed to have been the only upcoming Horizon title that wasn't in development at Guerrilla Games, the Dutch studio that created the franchise.

In November 2022, South Korean outlet MTN reported that a Horizon MMORPG was in the works at NCSoft, one of the Far Eastern country's biggest developer-publishers. The untitled game is said to have been internally code-named Project H. While neither Sony nor NCSoft ever officially confirmed this claim, the South Korean developer has been posting job listings referencing Project H ever since.

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NCSoft's hiring spree is now said to have reached its end, with a mid-January 2025 report from MTN claiming that the company canceled the game. The decision to shelve Project H is understood to have originated from Sony, with the Japanese gaming giant supposedly scrapping the idea as a result of a recent viability review. The cancellation call was reportedly made near the end of 2024, while most of the staffers working on the game started being notified about this development in early 2025, when they began receiving new assignments. This was around the time that Sony is said to have canceled two other live-service games: a God of War multiplayer title from Bluepoint and an unknown project from Bend Studio.

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Project H is understood to be the sixth live-service title that Sony scrapped in 2024. In addition to the unprecedented failure of Concord, which was shut down within days of its August 2024 release, Sony also reportedly canceled Bungie's Destiny spin-off code-named Payback and an unknown fantasy game from London Studio, as well as an untitled Neon Koi project. Additionally, the company is said to have shelved a new live-service Twisted Metal title that was in pre-production at Firesprite in February 2024.

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A Horizon Multiplayer Game Is Still Said to Be on the Horizon

Despite the purported cancellation of Project H, the Horizon franchise could still receive a live-service game in the foreseeable future. That would be the Horizon multiplayer title that's currently in the works at Guerrilla, which the studio itself confirmed in late 2022. This project may have started development as early as 2018, as suggested by Guerrilla's job openings.

According to The Best War Games's mid-2024 review of some of Guerrilla's job listings, the Horizon multiplayer game may be targeting a PS6 release, and could hence skip the PS5 altogether. Sony's next-generation console is expected to hit the market between late 2027 and late 2028.

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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.

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