An early test build of Horizon Forbidden West has made its way onto the internet via a hacking platform, and eventually Reddit.
The alpha build of the game, which was reportedly given to QA testers remotely during lockdowns, is a debug-enabled version of the game which means that users who download it have unprecedented access to the game’s Decima Engine-powered code, leaving it open to reverse-engineering and potentially even enabling it to be run on non-PlayStation hardware.
On top of this, old and discarded content may still exist in this early build of Forbidden West, which is reportedly fully playable on a jailbroken PS4 console.
Despite the game being released early in 2022, this is still a pretty major leak of Guerrilla materials and is frankly a wild ordeal.
Horizon Forbidden West’s next major content addition is coming in the form of the PS5-exclusive The Burning Shores expansion in April, not long after a new entry in the series comes exclusively to PlayStation VR2 in the form of Horizon Call of the Mountain.
A new, stylised multiplayer co-op game is also confirmed to be on the way, and there are rumours of both an MMO and a remake/remaster of Horizon Zero Dawn.