Sony Interactive Entertainment is readying to merchandise a remake of PS4 rubric Horizon Zero Dawn for PlayStation 5.

That’s according to a study by MP1ST, which VGC tin corroborate via our ain sources.

The updated mentation of the 2017 Guerrilla Games rubric volition diagnostic improved visuals to bring it up to par with this year’s sequel, Horizon Forbidden West, successful the signifier of caller quality models, lighting and animations, it’s claimed.

In addition, it’s claimed the caller mentation of Zero Dawn volition adhd accessibility features, graphics modes and prime of beingness improvements to the gameplay itself.

VGC has asked SIE for remark connected this story.

Re-releases of caller deed games aren’t a caller inclination for PlayStation: the level holder has already released aggregate remasters and remakes for PS5, including Spider-Man, Ghost of Tsushima, Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us.

A PC mentation of Horizon Zero Dawn was released successful 2020 with improved gully region and higher framerates, but it mostly reused the assets and features from the PS4 version.

In addition, the MP1ST study claims that Guerilla Games is presently moving connected a Horizon multiplayer crippled for PS5 and PC, which matches what VGC reported last year.

VGC understands that the workplace has agelong intended to grow the Horizon bid into the multiplayer space. Sources had antecedently told america that co-op was archetypal planned for the archetypal Horizon crippled but was yet scrapped truthful the improvement squad could absorption connected different areas of the title.

Zero Dawn conception art that leaked online successful 2014 – verified by VGC – adjacent shows archetypal plans to person aggregate players conflict the game’s immense mechanical beasts, successful a script akin to Capcom‘s Monster Hunter games.

Sources said that Sony had been keen to see co-op successful the game’s sequel, Forbidden West, but Guerrilla decided to prevention the diagnostic for a aboriginal project, which they believed would either beryllium a standalone online spin-off, oregon Horizon 3.

SIE revealed successful May that it’s launching a important propulsion into unrecorded work games, with 12 specified titles planned to get by its fiscal twelvemonth ending successful March 2026.

In 2018 Guerrilla rehired game manager Simon Larouche to enactment connected an unannounced title, which is perchance related to a multiplayer project.

The decorator has immense acquisition with multiplayer games, having directed Ubisoft’s fashionable eSports shooter Rainbow Six: Siege, arsenic good arsenic online modes for Guardians of the Galaxy, Splinter Cell: Blacklist and Killzone 2.

Sony announced successful May that it’s working connected a TV adaptation of Horizon, which volition beryllium released connected Netflix.  The Umbrella Academy showrunner Steve Blackman is developing the show, based connected the PlayStation franchise.