When Light of Motiram, Tencent’s new base-building survival co-op title, was first announced, it immediately received criticism for its resemblance to Guerrilla Games’ Horizon series. Sony seemingly thought so as well, suing the company for what it called a “slavish Horizon clone.”
Several days later, it seems Tencent is in the process of reducing the similarities. Its Steam page, once showcasing an Aloy-like figure and robot elephants (seen above), has been updated to remove both. Any mention of “colossal machines” is also gone; however, it’s still set in a world where “civilization is a distant memory”, with “primal cultures” and “extreme weather” that will test one’s survival skills.
Whether this will be enough for Sony to drop its lawsuit remains to be seen. As such, Light of Motiram, developed by Polaris Quest, is out in Q1 2027, and it could distance itself even further. Stay tuned.
Meanwhile, the same lawsuit revealed that the Horizon series has sold over 38 million units thus far. Guerrilla Games hasn’t announced a sequel, but it’s allegedly “a ways off.” An online title, reportedly developed with NCSoft, is also seemingly in the works.