After years of quiet teasing, NCSOFT has finally confirmed Horizon Steel Frontiers at G-Star 2025. This time, the Horizon universe isn’t just expanding, it’s going fully online. The game launches on PC through the PURPLE platform and on both iOS and Android, marking the franchise’s biggest shift yet.

Set in a new region called the Deadlands, the game drops players into a rugged stretch of post-apocalyptic America inspired by New Mexico and Arizona. It’s a place filled with roaming machines, scattered tribes, and wide-open territory waiting to be fought over.

Horizon Steel Frontiers announcement video

Jan-Bart van Beek, Studio Head at Guerrilla Games, said this version was built for play “anywhere and at any time,” pointing to the jump onto mobile without losing the identity of the series. Guerrilla even joined internal playtests and walked away confident that the world still feels like Horizon, just on a much larger scale. Van Beek also hinted at both PvE and PvP, with players teaming up to fight machines or locking horns with rival tribes over resources.

Combat reworked for huge online battles

According to Sung-gu Lee, Executive Producer at NCSOFT, the team rebuilt Horizon’s combat for MMO play. You can break machine parts, Pullcaster your way onto weak spots, plant traps, trigger status effects, and grab fallen machine weapons to use later. It’s a system built around teamwork and planning, especially when dozens of players tackle giants at the same time.

With a new frontier, reimagined combat, and thousands of players sharing the same world, Horizon Steel Frontiers looks set to push the series into its boldest territory yet.

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