It’s laborious to imagine that it’s already been one yr since Horizon Forbidden West launched. On February 18, 2022, Guerrillas had been eagerly ready at their workstations as the sport began rolling out to our international group.
Describing the sensation of a sport launch day is difficult, although any developer in our business will inherently perceive the combination of pleasure, nervousness, and anticipation as we begin seeing your reactions are available. We spend a lot of the day refreshing social media, checking stats, and studying by preliminary suggestions — while, in fact, sharing a second with the workforce, relishing within the unbelievable achievements and outcomes of over 4 years of labor, now out on the earth.
To construct on this pleasure, Horizon Forbidden West additionally joins the PlayStation Plus Sport Catalog beginning February 21, 2023.
This previous yr, noticed extra than simply the launch of Horizon Forbidden West; we additionally launched a LEGO Tallneck into the wilds, created a devoted TikTok channel, and dropped plenty of new merch, just like the OST vinyl and a set with ASOS. We had been even capable of lastly meet a few of our followers in particular person once more at Twitchcon and gamescom!
It’s been heart-warming to see the influence Aloy and her story have had on you, and we’re so grateful for the way our group expresses love and pleasure for our franchise. Considered one of my private joys is to scroll by the #BeyondTheHorizon hashtag and see the breathtaking Picture Mode photographs from the digital images group; do you know you all spent a collective 211,000 hours in Picture Mode?
As a thanks for one yr of ardour, help, and pleasure about Horizon Forbidden West, we need to indulge you with a small token of appreciation within the type of new PlayStation avatars, which will likely be accessible to obtain from PlayStation Retailer tomorrow.
Thanks once more from the underside of our hearts for embracing Aloy and her continued story in Horizon Forbidden West. We are actually trying ahead to our Burning Shores enlargement, coming to PS5 on April 19, which sees Aloy pursue a sinister risk within the lethal, volcanic ruins of Los Angeles. And if you wish to expertise the world of Horizon from a very totally different angle, Horizon Name of the Mountain is launching subsequent week on PSVR2.
I’ll depart you with this heartfelt message from Guerrillas at our studio in Amsterdam.
