Sony is reportedly bringing Killzone back after more than a decade away, and the early details point to a modest first step rather than a full reboot. According to a report from MP1st, Guerrilla Games is working with an outside studio on the Killzone revival, which is still in the early stages of development. The most likely outcome, per the report, is a remaster or remake of the original 2004 Killzone, though the project could grow into something larger.
Killzone was once a central part of PlayStation‘s first-party lineup, built as Sony’s answer to shooters like Halo during the PS3 era. The series peaked commercially with 2009’s Killzone 2 and 2011’s Killzone 3. Both games sold well enough to justify a launch title for the following console generation. That title, Killzone: Shadow Fall, arrived alongside the PS4 in 2013 and turned out to be the franchise’s last mainline entry. Sony has since redirected much of its internal development toward open-world games like Horizon and Ghost of Tsushima.
Who might be handling the killzone revival
Guerrilla Games, the studio that created Killzone, is currently building Horizon Hunter’s Gathering, a live-service Horizon spin-off that reportedly stumbled in a recent playtest and is now getting reworked. Kotaku has previously reported that a true sequel to Horizon Forbidden West remains years away, while the bulk of the studio works on that multiplayer project. It’s unclear how a Killzone remaster would fit into Guerrilla’s schedule as a result.
One candidate for the external studio is People Can Fly, the developer behind Outriders. Sony signed a co-development agreement with the studio in March 2025 for a project codenamed Delta, which MP1st says draws on an existing PlayStation IP. No confirmed link between Delta and Killzone exists yet, and the connection remains speculation for now. Sony and Guerrilla Games have not commented publicly on the report.
A long wait for PlayStation’s shooter fans
PlayStation has not released a new Killzone game since Shadow Fall in 2013. The first three mainline entries received an anthology collection on PS3, but none of them are playable on PS5 without backward compatibility workarounds. PS Plus has never added the original PS2 release to its classic games lineup either. Sony has regularly refreshed that library with older titles, from Ape Escape to Tekken, yet Killzone has stayed absent.
The gap has left a noticeable hole in Sony’s shooter catalog. Competing platforms have leaned on long-running military and sci-fi shooter series for years, while PlayStation’s own contender sat untouched. A remaster of the 2004 original would cost far less to produce than a new game built from scratch. It would also let Sony gauge whether the franchise still has an audience before greenlighting anything larger.
A Killzone revival built around the original game gives Sony a low-risk way to test demand for the series again. If the remaster sells well, it could open the door to a broader return for a franchise that helped define PlayStation’s shooter identity for the better part of a decade.