While a Horizon multiplayer crippled felt each but inevitable, Guerrilla Games yet made the quality authoritative connected Friday by mode of a caller occupation advertisement. The Sony workplace down the open satellite RPG series wants to instrumentality the post-apocalyptic robot combat online with an upcoming task featuring caller characters and a antithetic art-style.

“A caller interior squad is processing a abstracted Online Project acceptable successful Horizon’s universe,” Guerrilla Games wrote connected Twitter. “Featuring a caller formed of characters and unsocial stylized look, friends volition beryllium capable to research the majestic wilds of Horizon together.” So don’t expect to teaming up with Aloy and her different friends this clip around.

Job listings for the caller crippled see character, quest, and combat designers, arsenic good arsenic “stylized” satellite artists and quality animators. From the descriptions, it sounds similar what you’d expect from the creators of Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West, but with a multiplayer twist. The references to a caller creation direction, meanwhile, mightiness hint astatine a antithetic acceptable of ocular tradeoffs from a workplace traditionally astatine the forefront of ocular fidelity, successful bid to accommodate the caller cooperative gameplay.

Guerrilla besides makes wide that it’s inactive moving connected a caller single-player installment successful the Horizon series, successful summation to the PSVR2 spin-off, Horizon Call of the Mountain, and Forbidden West DLC, Burning Shores, the second 2 some owed retired aboriginal successful 2023. There are besides occupation listings for an outer project, though it’s not wide precisely what that is.

Rumors of a Horizon multiplayer task person been swirling astir for a portion now, including a report of a Horizon MMO being licensed retired to Guild Wars steadfast NCsoft. The multiplayer propulsion comes arsenic different large Sony first-party franchises person made the leap to online, including Ghost of Tsushima’s co-op raid update, and an upcoming multiplayer-only Last of Us spin-off.

Following its $3.6 cardinal acquisition of Bungie, whose palmy MMO shooter Destiny 2 has go 1 of the golden standards successful live-service gaming, Sony revealed plans to merchandise implicit a dozen much live-service games by 2025. If the past fewer years person been immoderate indication, not each of them volition succeed, and fewer if immoderate volition scope the levels of Apex Legends, Genshin Impact, and different caller breakout hits. With a increasing bulk of each gaming companies’ gross coming from microtransactions and different “recurrent subordinate spending,” it’s casual to spot wherefore Sony would try.