Horizon Zero Dawn and its successors are very different games to Guerrilla Games' FPS series, Killzone, and according to the studio's art director, it was purposely made to be "the opposite" in order to "refresh the palette."

Guerrilla Games, the studio known for the PlayStation-exclusive Killzone series and, more recently, the Horizon series, in a recent interview explained why they shifted focus away from Killzone.

B efore the Horizon series, Guerrilla Games developed the Killzone series for Sony’s PlayStation. This gritty first-person shooter series saw five games come out from 2004 to 20