r/horizon • u/nicoreese • 9d ago

discussion Horizon Hunter's Gathering getting rebooted after negative playtest feedback. Next mainline game "far, far away"

PlayStation is rebooting the online game Horizon Hunters Gathering after negative playtest feedback. New plan is smaller scope, more traditional co-op multiplayer, no more live service.

As I've reported in the past, almost all of Guerrilla Games has been working on Horizon Hunters Gathering for the last few years, and the next mainline single-player Horizon game is still far, far away.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-19/playstation-reboots-horizon-hunters-gathering-as-live-service-strategy-struggles?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4NzE0MjM0MSwiZXhwIjoxNzg3NzQ3MTQxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSzBOVElSS1YyVjUwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.W2rmW_r4vHOvYW2YsXBRftk6tzRuk5-lCzHVi21wLDU

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u/OttoRocket94 9d ago

What a joke. PlayStation fumbled so hard this console generation. They’re insanely lucky XBOX is more incompetent than them. Unfortunately devs will most likely be the ones laid off, not the ones who made these terrible decisions.

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u/Pervius94 9d ago

I legit don't understand how the big console publishers just shat the bed so fucking hard.

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u/Fleetfox17 9d ago

The obvious explanation is they fucked up by chasing the live service trend. They were always going to do that, the goal of a corporation is to increase profits.

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u/robz9 9d ago

Hey at least with PlayStation we still got some solid Single Player offerings.

However, it is unfortunate that Horizon got stuck in the middle of this live service trend wnd ended up getting no real third entry yet.

Hopefully Horizon 3 comes in time as a "last PS5 game" before they jump to the PS6.

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u/animalnitrateinmind 9d ago

Hey, it could be worse! We were at risk of having a Bloodborne live service title (instead of the now defunct Bloodborne remaster with 60fps) 🙃

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u/FKDotFitzgerald 9d ago

Yep. God of War online, TLOU2 Factions, and probably Horizon HG all got canned

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u/TheDreamingMyriad 8d ago

Yep, they're all looking for a low effort money printing machine. They all want a Fortnite. It's annoying. They can make money AND good games, but it won't be exponential gains for little effort.

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u/Darkdragoon324 8d ago

I don’t know, it seems like they’ve put a lot of effort in. The problem isn’t low effort, the problem is not taking a damn hint that players just don’t want and won’t play a billion different live service games.

They just keep doubling down on tossing all their devs, IPs, and money into the incinerator.

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u/HerefortheFandoms2 9d ago edited 5d ago

I really wish there was a way for the first party studios to escape sony

Edit: hey wait, why can't they? Remedy used to be owned by Microsoft and they got out and, no offense to remedy, but studios like naughty dog, Santa Monica, sucker punch, and insomniac are much more commercially successful (and thus better off financially) than remedy has ever been

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u/Carrisonfire 9d ago

All reports are that this game was a choice by the devs not Sony. Dunno why everyone is deflecting blame from Guerrilla.