GamingSony settles with Tencent over 'slavish' Horizon cloneLight of Motiram is no longer available following a 'confidential settlement' between the companies.Steve DentReporterThu, December 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM UTCEarlier this year Sony sued Tencent for copyright infringement over its game, calling it a "slavish clone" of Horizon Zero Dawn.Then, earlier this month, Tencent agreed to stop promoting and publicly testing the game.Now, the two companies have reached a "confidential settlement" and the case has been dismissed, according to court documents seen by .
has also disappeared from Steam and Epic's game stores."SIE and Tencent are pleased to have reached a confidential resolution and will have no further public comment on this matter," Tencent's spokesperson told When Sony first filed its lawsuit in July 2025, it said that Tencent's game appeared to copy aspects of not just , but other franchise games including and .That included the post-apocalyptic setting with humans and machines coexisting, the visual appearance of characters and even the marketing materials — something Engadget certainly noticed when Tencent first announced the game.
