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Horizon Zero Dawn

Guerilla Games' action RPG Horizon Zero Dawn takes place in a world overrun by hostile machines. Players control Aloy, a young hunter with a mysterious past who seeks to uncover the reason behind her exile as a child. With a large open world to explore, players can enhance Aloy's abilities through skill trees to unlock new talents which allow her to access the keys to understanding the past.

Horizon Zero Dawn
Horizon Zero Dawn

Franchise
Horizon
Platform(s)
Microsoft Windows , PlayStation 4 , PlayStation 5
Released
February 28, 2017
Developer(s)
Guerrilla Games
Publisher(s)
Sony Interactive Entertainment
Genre(s)
Adventure , Sci-Fi , Action
ESRB
T
How Long To Beat
29 Hours
Expansion Packs
The Frozen Wilds

Summary

From the creators of the Killzone franchise comes Horizon Zero Dawn, an action-adventure game set in a semi-futuristic period where humanity has regressed to early tribal days sans technology - except cybernetic creatures now roam and dominate the earth. Aloy, the game's protagonist, was cast out from her tribe at birth for reasons unknown to her, and she is raised by a kind and strong hunter known as Rost. Rost prepares her for "proving" a ceremonial set of trials that will finally allow her to be recognized, but the world has other plans. When mysterious cultists attack the participants, Aloy is sent out on a journey to find out who they are. Armed with a mysterious technological device that allows her to see the ins and outs of her cybernetic foes, Aloy will journey out into the world to find the assailants and the truth of the world she thought was once so small. Players are armed with slings and bows with different arrow types as they set traps and target weak points against massive hulking robotic dinosaurs and other creatures. Horizon Zero Dawn was released on the PlayStation 4 on 28 February 2017 and had a sequel released, Horizon Forbidden West, in 2022.

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