I mean, that setting alone shouldn’t be enough to claim copyright infringement, but the visual identity of the Tencent game looks way too close to Horizon. And since apparently they tried to get the licence and failed, it’s even harder to see it as anything but an attempt to make “I can’t believe it’s not Horizon”.

They could have made it look different enough that it would be considered at most heavily inspired and there would be nothing wrong with it.

I certainly don’t think Sony needs defending, but yeah, I can’t say that result is surprising.