Horizon Zero Dawn cover art

Horizon Zero Dawn

2017 · Guerrilla Games · ~30h to finish

Machines have components you are meant to shoot off with the right element. A player who ignores that fights the same Thunderjaw for ten minutes with the wrong arrows.

actionrpgexplorationPCPlayStation 5
GlobalUNRATED
Baseline difficulty3.9MODERATE

You will lose sometimes. You will not mind.

The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Strategy
4.5
Reaction
4.2
Obscurity
3.8
Punishment
3.6
Execution
3.5
Learning Curve
3.5
Grind
2.8
Puzzle
1.2
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST
  • Execution drops 1.0 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Reaction drops 0.8 points — you handle this better than most.
  • Assist options shave roughly 2.7 points off, if you use them.

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Screenshots

IGDB

Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT

No walls charted yet. If you have played this, you know where it bites — add the first one.

Assists & accessibility

0/4 SOURCED

CHALLENGE RELIEF

  • Difficulty modes [unsourced]

MOTOR & INPUT

  • Aim assist [unsourced]

VISION

  • Scalable UI & text [unsourced]

HEARING

  • Full subtitles [unsourced]

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

Welcome to a vibrant world rich with the beauty of nature – but inhabited by awe-inspiring, highly advanced machines.

Where to go from here

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