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Guerrilla Games may be predicting very high player interest in the upcoming Horizon multiplayer game.
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A recent Guerrilla job listing suggests that the studio is building live services systems for Horizon's multiplayer game, which can support over a million players.
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On the other hand, Guerrilla may be taking precautionary measures to ensure Horizon's multiplayer doesn't suffer from server issues like Helldivers 2 at launch.
Guerrilla Games' new job listing may indicate that the studio is quite confident in the appeal of its upcoming Horizon multiplayer project. Although Horizon multiplayer has yet to be revealed, it seems that Guerrilla Games are anticipating massive player interest in the live service title.
Since launch Horizon Forbidden West in 2022 and his Burning shores The following year's DLC didn't see much news from Guerrilla aside from collaborations on smaller projects like Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered and LEGO Horizon Adventure. However, for many years there has been plenty of evidence to suggest that Guerrilla has been working on a Horizon multiplayer game. Guerrilla job listings dating back to 2018 indicated the existence of a Horizon multiplayer project, and in 2025 it remains all but confirmed.
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Although it's still unclear when Guerrilla plans to announce it Horizon multiplayer project, the new finding may indicate that the studio has high ambitions for the number of players in the game. According to a recent job posting for Senior Platform Engineer, Guerrilla may be expecting over a million players Horizon multiplayer game. This was hinted at in the role requirements, where one mentions “proven experience building and operating multi-service, 1M+ users of globally distributed systems across multiple public cloud providers”. It seems that Guerrilla could also be building a robust infrastructure for live services Horizon a multiplayer project that can support more than one million players.
Guerrilla could ensure a smooth launch of Horizon's multiplayer
On the contrary, it may be less of an expectation for the guerilla and more of a precaution to ensure that the players do not have any trouble during the game. Horizon multiplayer game registration process. For example, Helldivers 2The servers were extremely congested for several weeks due to the unexpectedly huge popularity of the game on PS5 and PC, which acted as a barrier for both existing and new players. Therefore, it would not be too unreasonable to assume that the guerrilla wants to avoid such a situation Horizon multiplayer game. Although there is no guarantee that Horizon the multiplayer game will see a similar level of success as Helldivers 2can't blame Guerrilla for wanting to come prepared regardless.
The Horizon the multiplayer game has been in development for several years, so assuming it doesn't run into any major issues behind the scenes, Guerrilla may just be gearing up to unveil the title with a live service this year. A few months ago, a guerilla job listing indicated that it was new Horizon the game could be released in 2025. From the third main series Horizon Entry is still far off, the alleged 2025 game may very well be Horizon multiplayer project.
Horizon
The Horizon series follows Aloy as she is forced to battle 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, giving players the freedom to explore the open world as they see fit.
