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Horizon Forbidden West

Platforms

PC
PS4
PS5

Initial release Feb. 18, 2022

Developers

Guerrilla Games
Nixxes Software B.V.

Genres

Action Adventure
RPG

Publishers

Sony

Franchise Horizon

Horizon Forbidden West Spotlight

Review | Horizon Forbidden West review - a gorgeous sequel that continues to borrow more than it adds

Dino crisis.

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PlayStation's Horizon series reportedly surpasses 40m sales, further cementing its position as one of Sony's best-selling franchises

Get Aloy of that.

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Horizon Forbidden West Signal Tower and Signal Lens locations: Where to find all the Signal Towers in the Daunt explained

How to find all six Signal Lens.
Horizon Forbidden West Vista Point locations: Where to find every Vista Tower and Visita Points in Horizon Forbidden West

Every Vista Point location explained.

Horizon Forbidden West Feed

Horizon's Aloy stands next to a Sunwing in promo for Forbidden West

News

PlayStation's Horizon series reportedly surpasses 40m sales, further cementing its position as one of Sony's best-selling franchises

Get Aloy of that.

Nov. 17, 2025 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

Aloy rides on the back of a Sunwing with another female in Horizon Forbidden West Burning Shores

News

Sony's Horizon series was always thought about as a multiplayer game, says studio head, following MMO announcement

Aloy of others.

Nov. 14, 2025 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

A female with tribal markings on her face on the back of a machine beast in Horizon MMO

News

Guerrilla affirms it's working on new games in the Horizon franchise as NCSoft MMO skips PS5

"Huge miss."

Nov. 13, 2025 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

A screenshot of robo companion EDI from the Mass Effect series. She is a silver-skinned cyborg with neat bobbed hair and an orange eye-width visor.

Feature

Supporters | Five of the Best: Robots

One one one one one.

Nov. 12, 2025 Robert Purchese

Close up of Aloy in Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered

News

Sony fires back at Tencent's "nonsense" defence for Horizon "knock-off" Light of Motiram

"The damage is done - and it continues."

Oct. 16, 2025 Ed Nightingale

Close up of Aloy from PlayStation's Horizon games. She has a red cloth wrapped around her forehead

News

Guerrilla's Horizon franchise has sold over 38m copies worldwide

Faro of time.

July 29, 2025 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

Image showing Aloy from the Horizon series on the left and a female character from Light of Motiram on the right

News

Sony sues Tencent over "slavish" Horizon knock off Light of Motiram

They've got Aloy of explaining to do.

July 29, 2025 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

Aloy in Horizon Forbidden West trailer perched atop some red foliage

News

Horizon Zero Dawn developer replacing all actors with robots "not going to happen", says Aloy voice actress

AI needs "to be a conversation".

June 23, 2025 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

Screenshot from Horizon Forbidden West showing Aloy on the beach with an image of her actress Ashly Burch overlayed on top and to one side

News

Horizon Forbidden West actress Ashly Burch responds to Sony's controversial AI Aloy

"It hurts my heart. It scares me."

March 15, 2025 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

Aloy looks puzzled in a screenshot from Horizon Forbidden West

News

Sony is experimenting with AI-powered PlayStation characters, ironically chooses Horizon's Aloy to demonstrate

Day of the Broadhead.

March 11, 2025 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

Aloy in Horizon Forbidden West Burning Shores DLC

News

Sony quietly region-locks another PC port that doesn't need a PSN account

Forbidden (but not in the) West.

Jan. 24, 2025 Vikki Blake

Aloy from PlayStations Horizon series

News

Looks like Horizon's unannounced MMO has been quietly cancelled

Aloy vera.

Jan. 21, 2025 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

Two characters in Light of Motiram dance by a campfire

News

Tencent's Horizon clone Light of Motiram also coming to PS5, of all platforms

Android and iOS release also on the cards.

Nov. 29, 2024 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

Light of Motiram gif showing how similar it is to Horizon

News

Tencent open world survival game looks like a blatant Horizon rip-off with added Palworld elements

Sticking its Tallneck out.

Nov. 28, 2024 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

A photo of an award on a table. The award is circular and stood up on a circular base. In the middle is what looks like a globe but actually it's a deconstructed controller that looks like a globe. Around it is green and blue, and the material looks to be stone of some kind. It's very pretty actually.

Feature

Big changes for the Green Game Jam as it targets triple-A games

Planet toaster.

Nov. 20, 2024 Robert Purchese

A Lego Fortnite image showing a fishy Lego character holding a torch in a darkened area.

Feature

What we've been playing - Lego horror, cheerful games, and others we just can't get into

A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

Nov. 16, 2024 Robert Purchese

New Aloy Lego minifig variant

News

Lego teases new Horizon-themed set on the way

Fresh Aloy minifig pops up in Lego Horizon Adventures video.

Nov. 15, 2024 Vikki Blake

Killzone developer "done" with series, Guerrilla says of switch to Horizon

News

Killzone developer "done" with series, Guerrilla says of switch to Horizon

"We needed to refresh the palette."

Oct. 22, 2024 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

Regalla, leader of a faction of Tenakth rebels, in Horizon Forbidden West

News

Horizon Forbidden West is leaving PlayStation Plus

Aloy sooner than expected.

Aug. 20, 2024 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

A masculine character bobs in blue water with a floating jar nearby. We see the character from the back and they are topless. The jar has a baby in. It's Death Stranding.

Feature

Supporters | Five of the Best: Places to swim

Splish, splash, splosh.

July 31, 2024 Robert Purchese

An Aloy figurine takes aim

News

Sony launches new official figurine collection with Aloy, Varl, Kratos, Atreus, and Jin Sakai

Event Horizon.

July 5, 2024 Vikki Blake

Aloy in Horizon Forbidden West DLC Burning Shores

News

Horizon Zero Dawn Netflix series "no longer moving forward" following showrunner allegations - report

Umbrella Academy exec denies hostile workplace claims.

July 4, 2024 Tom Phillips

Close up of Aloy in Lego Horizon Adventures

News

Lego Horizon Adventures is a "playful and light-hearted" take on Guerrilla's franchise

Coming to PS5, PC and Nintendo Switch.

June 7, 2024 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

Aloy pulling a shocked expression as the sun sets behind her in Horizon Forbidden West

News

Sony's rumoured Lego Horizon game reportedly coming day one to PC, PS5

Monitor-ing the situation.

June 6, 2024 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

Aloy sits on top of a Tallneck in Horizon Forbidden West

News

Sony announces two PlayStation CEOs to replace Jim Ryan

Hermen Hulst and Hideaki Nishino step up to new leadership roles.

May 14, 2024 Victoria Phillips Kennedy

Horizon Forbidden West Gallery

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Games from the Horizon franchise

Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores
2023
Horizon Call of the Mountain
2023
Horizon: Zero Dawn
2017