When Tencent unveiled its upcoming Light of Motiram survival game in late 2024, we (and a lot of other places and people) called out its many similarities to Sony’s Horizon series, and idly wondered whether it was tempting fate and SIE’s legal team.
The answer came in July 2025 when Sony filed suit, shortly after which Tencent did something unusual: It purged most of the Horizon-like content from the game’s Steam page, and delayed its launch target from late 2025 to late 2027—all without saying a word about why, or even acknowledging it was being done at all.
The “why” seemed obvious enough: Light of Motiram really did look an awful lot like Horizon: Zero Dawn, in some very overt ways. Despite Tencent’s lack of comment, I assumed the store page changes, and the huge two-year delay, represented a fairly complete walkback and rework. But it seems that Sony isn’t buying it: As reported by Games Fray, Sony has now filed for a preliminary injunction against Tencent’s use of any material “copied or derived” from the Horizon games.
That covers a lot of ground, but the filing focuses heavily on Tencent’s use of a character in Light of Motiram promotional images who looks a lot like Aloy, the “iconic” protagonist in the Horizon games. How similar are they? Judge for yourself:
