Decima
Decima is Guerrilla Games’ in-house engine. It ran Killzone: Shadow Fall in 2013 and the Horizon games, and Guerrilla shares it with Kojima Productions, which built both Death Stranding games on it.
History
Inside Guerrilla the engine was simply “the engine” until other studios needed it. Until Dawn was announced on it in August 2015, and in December 2016 Hideo Kojima said Kojima Productions would use it for Death Stranding. In February 2017 Guerrilla published “Introducing Decima”, giving the engine its name; Wikipedia says the name refers to Dejima, the Dutch trading post in Japan.
Horizon Forbidden West (2022) ran on an updated version and used the open-source Jolt physics engine. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach came out in June 2025 on a further improved version for the PlayStation 5.
Games made with Decima
7 games, oldest first. Each game links to the article that names its engine.
| Game | Year | Developer | Engine version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Killzone: Shadow Fall | 2013 | Guerrilla Games | Decima |
| Until Dawn | 2015 | Supermassive Games | Decima |
| Until Dawn: Rush of Blood | 2016 | Supermassive Games | Decima |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 2017 | Guerrilla Games | Decima |
| Death Stranding | 2019 | Kojima Productions | Decima |
| Horizon Forbidden West | 2022 | Guerrilla Games | Decima |
| Death Stranding 2: On the Beach | 2025 | Kojima Productions | Decima |
At a glance
- Developer
- Guerrilla Games (Sony Interactive Entertainment)
- First game
- Killzone: Shadow Fall (2013)
- Shared with
- Kojima Productions
- Licence
- In-house
- Status
- Active
Sources
Checked .
- Introducing Decima — Guerrilla Games
- Decima (game engine) — Wikipedia
Image credits
- Decima logo — Guerrilla Games. Trademark of Guerrilla Games. Cropped to the symbol, placed on a white square and converted to WebP