Horizon: Steel Frontiers is the newly announced MMO from Guerrilla Games and NCSoft, set in the same lush, decaying world as Aloy’s adventures. It’s got everything you’d expect - customizable hunters, massive open zones inspired by Arizona and New Mexico, grappling hooks, mounts, Tallnecks to climb, and yes, those beautiful machine-beast battles. It even looks great in the trailer. But still... it’s a mobile game.
And look, I’m not knocking mobile gamers. Gaming is gaming. But an MMO - a sprawling, shared open world where you can lose yourself completely in an immersive, live virtual land - is not something you play on a six-inch screen while you’re waiting for a latte. Especially not this world. Horizon’s beauty deserves a 4K monitor, not a cracked phone display.
Plus, we all know how this story goes. “Free-to-play” turns into “pay-to-upgrade-your-bow.” Before long, you’re buying 7 different forms of virtual currency - all with very real money.
Maybe Steel Frontiers will surprise us. Maybe it’ll be the one mobile MMO that actually nails it. But for now, I’m staying cautiously skeptical - and dreaming of the day we get a real Horizon MMO, built for the big screen it deserves.
