Theverge iconThevergeSep 24, 2026 ~5 min source read

Meta launches Horizon Create and Horizon Studio to let anyone generate mobile games from prompts

Meta announced two tools—Horizon Create (mobile) and Horizon Studio (browser)—that use natural-language prompts and the Horizon Engine to generate playable 2D and 3D mobile games, and will let those games run directly inside Facebook and Instagram feeds.

Meta is going to let you build games with AI right on your phone

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Horizon Create is a mobile app for prompt-driven game generation and iteration directly on a phone.

Horizon Studio is a browser-based editor offering granular visual controls and the ability to move projects between tools.

Published games can be recommended and played natively inside Facebook and Instagram feeds without downloads.

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The biggest news and announcements see all updates Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. Meta has a new plan to get people to make games for its Horizon social platform. Horizon Create, a mobile app, and Horizon Studio, a browser app that offers more granular controls.

How it works

  • The apps will be available in early access, and interested users can sign up for a waitlist.
  • Meta's news about Horizon, which launched as a VR app, follows a recent pivot to primarily focus on mobile.
  • Jay Peters Sep 24 Meta's Developer State of the Union show is about to begin.
  • The company's announcement comes as Roblox, a similar platform to Horizon that is vastly more popular, is also making a significant push into AI-powered development, including a feature in its mobile app...
  • Related Meta's social VR platform Horizon hits 300,000 users Meta is actually keeping its VR metaverse running, for now Meta also likely has a very long way to go to reach the scale of Roblox, which has 123...

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"Someone scrolling through Instagram can tap a clip of your game and be in a multiplayer session within seconds, without needing to download an app or being redirected," Meta says. With Meta stuffing AI into basically everything it can, it's perhaps no surprise that AI is becoming a big part of Horizon as well. Giving people the tools to quickly make those could give people more options for things to play.

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The next push for Meta's Horizon platform involves video games. by Jay Peters Sep 24, 2026, 5:52 PM UTC Image: He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme.

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  • Arstechnica: Interactive mobile "gizmos" are easy to make, hard to share outside Meta's platform.
  • Techcrunch: At its annual Roblox Developer Conference (RDC), the company announced several new features, including new game-creation tools, expanded NPC capabilities, and the ability to make games available across...
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