A new game from Tencent looks like a pretty blatant Horizon ripoff

Particulars about an epic-looking upcoming sci-fi journey recreation simply dropped. The pictures and teaser trailer depict a post-apocalyptic world wherein people in primitive-style garb battle big dinosaur-like robots whereas sweeping orchestral music performs. All of it appears slightly acquainted. However wait, this isn’t the following Horizon recreation from Guerrilla. Oh, no, no. That is an initial look at a recreation from a Tencent subsidiary referred to as Polaris Quest.

Guerrilla and Sony do not precisely maintain a monopoly on tamable robotic dinosaurs or open-world crafting video games. However at first look, Light of Motiram is a fairly blatant Horizon ripoff. It mimics Guerilla’s artwork model and animations, proper right down to the considerable lens flares. One picture exhibits a trio of human characters utilizing bows and spears to sort out a mammoth-style machine. Even the sport’s emblem font and outline ape that of Horizon’s — Gentle of Motiram is about humanity’s try and “rebuild from the daybreak of a brand new primitive period.”

There are some variations, in equity. Right here, you possibly can assemble your individual shelters, whereas educated “Mechanimals” will help you in fight. There’s co-op help for as much as 10 gamers as effectively. Whereas Guerrilla is engaged on a multiplayer game, the current Lego Horizon Adventures spinoff is the one Horizon recreation thus far that options co-op.

In a single sense, followers of the Horizon sequence will perceive why it is apt that the video games appear to have successfully been cloned. We’ll have to attend to see simply how egregiously Polaris Quest has copied Aloy’s adventures. Gentle of Motiram does not have a launch window as but, however the seemingly free-to-play title is coming to Steam and the Epic Video games Retailer. Until Sony slaps Tencent with a cease-and-desist first, that’s.