Horizon Hunters Gathering Arrives into a Difficult Live‑Service Moment
PlayStation and Guerrilla have revealed Horizon Hunters Gathering, a multiplayer-focused online co-op action spin-off of the Horizon series. The game, which has a colorful, cartoonish look and has been compared to Monster Hunter meeting Destiny, will be supported with post-launch updates as a live-service title.
The announcement lands amid a stretch of high-profile live-service struggles. The last two years have seen numerous failed, cancelled, or fading projects; recent examples include Highguard, which dropped from over 90,000 active Steam players at launch to around 5,000 in less than two weeks, Concord’s rapid collapse, and Marathon’s rocky rollout.
As reported by TheGamer, many live-service games launched in 2025 have since lost most of their players, according to SteamDB, while a few exceptions like Arc Raiders and Marvel Rivals exist and brief breakouts such as Supervine eventually cooled off. That history has left many players wary.