Got a game idea but zero coding skills? Meta has a solution for this. At Meta Connect, the company announced Horizon Create and Horizon Studio, two tools that turn simple text prompts into complete 2D or 3D mobile games. Both tools are launching in early access, and you can join a waitlist now.
How do Horizon Create and Horizon Studio work?
Horizon Create is a standalone phone app. You describe your game the way you’d explain it to a friend, or start with a ready-made template. The AI then builds a playable game with progression systems, balanced difficulty, art direction, and multiplayer modes.
You can also tweak characters, story, and art style with more prompts. Once you start a build, you can continue doing something else and receive a notification when it is ready to playtest. Multiple projects can also run at the same time.
Horizon Studio brings the same idea to your browser with finer controls. It needs no installation or gaming PC, and it lets you arrange scenes, swap assets, and adjust scripts by hand. The two tools share a backend, so projects transfer between your phone and browser without starting over. That includes assets, systems, and iteration history.
Where will these AI-made games show up?
Published games can appear right inside Facebook, Instagram, and Horizon feeds. Someone scrolling Instagram could tap a clip and join your multiplayer session within seconds, without having to download anything. Games that are fun and keep players returning will get more reach and visibility.
Meta says every game passes safety checks and gets an automated age rating before going live. This update comes as Horizon, which started as a VR app, pivots toward mobile. Meta has been experimenting with prompt-based game creation, including an AI-powered app called Pocket that lets you generate, play, and share mini-games using natural language.
Other gaming platforms like Unity and Roblox are also letting people generate games through prompts. Whether AI-built games can match handcrafted ones is still an open question, but Meta is betting you’ll want to try.
