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Horizon Zero Dawn
Developer(s)Guerrilla Games[a]
Publisher(s)Sony Interactive Entertainment
Director(s)Mathijs de Jonge
Producer(s)Lambert Wolterbeek Muller
Programmer(s)Michiel van der Leeuw
Artist(s)Jan-Bart van Beek
Writer(s)
  • John Gonzalez
  • Ben McCaw
Composer(s)
EngineDecima
Platform(s)
ReleasePlayStation 4
  • NA: 28 February 2017
  • PAL: 1 March 2017
Microsoft Windows
  • WW: 7 August 2020
Genre(s)Action role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player

Horizon Zero Dawn is a 2017 action role-playing game developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The plot follows Aloy, a young huntress in a world overrun by machines, who sets out to uncover her past. The player uses ranged weapons, a spear, and stealth to combat mechanical creatures and other enemy forces. A skill tree provides the player with new abilities and bonuses. The player can explore the open world to discover locations and take on side quests. It was released for the PlayStation 4 in 2017 and Microsoft Windows in 2020.

Horizon Zero Dawn is Guerrilla Games' first new series since Killzone in 2004 and its first role-playing game. Development began in 2011 after the completion of Killzone 3, with director Mathijs de Jonge considering it the riskiest idea pitched at the time. The game engine, Decima, was developed for Killzone: Shadow Fall and altered for Horizon Zero Dawn. Being set in a post-apocalyptic setting, anthropologists were consulted to authenticate the world's decay over a millennium. The soundtrack was led by composer Joris de Man, featuring contributions from The Flight.

Horizon Zero Dawn was praised by critics for its open world, story, visuals, combat, characterization, and the performance of voice actress Ashly Burch; however, the dialogue, melee combat, and character models received some criticism. The game won numerous awards and sold over 20 million copies by February 2022, making it one of the best-selling PlayStation 4 games. An expansion, The Frozen Wilds, was released in November 2017. A sequel, Horizon Forbidden West, was released for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 on 18 February 2022.

Gameplay

Aloy using her spear against a Watcher

Horizon Zero Dawn is an action role-playing game played from a third-person view.[1][2] Players take control of Aloy, a hunter who ventures through a post-apocalyptic land ruled by robotic creatures.[3][4] Aloy can kill enemies in a variety of ways – setting traps such as tripwires using the Tripcaster,[5][6] shooting them with arrows,[7] using explosives,[8] and a spear.[9] Machine components, including electricity and the metal they are composed of, are vital to Aloy's survival; she can loot their remains for crafting resources.[7][10] Ammo, resource satchels, pouches, quivers, resistance, antidotes, health potions, and traps can all be crafted.[11] Weapons have modification slots for dealing more damage.[12] Aloy wears a Focus, a small head piece that scans machines to determine their susceptibilities,[13] identify their location, their level, and the nature of loot they will drop.[4] One machine, the Stalker, can enable cloaking technology to avert the gaze of Aloy's Focus scan.[14] Machines attack with defensive and offensive measures, and in either case react to a perceived threat by charging at it with brute force or projectiles. Exhibiting the behaviour of wild animals, some machines are inclined to move in herds, and others, with the ability to fly, do so in flocks. Unless hacked with the Override Tool, or sufficiently hit with corruption arrows, machines do not exert aggressive force against each other.[6] Aloy also engages in battle with human enemies, such as bandits and the Eclipse cult.[6][15]

Aloy can dodge, sprint, slide, or roll to evade her enemies' advances.[16] Hiding in foliage to ambush nearby enemies can ensure immediate takedowns.[7] Swimming may reach enemies stealthily or places otherwise unreachable on foot.[6] She is able to hack a selection of machines with the Override Tool, some of which can be turned into makeshift mounts.[9][17] Explorable ruins called Cauldrons unlock additional machines to override.[18] Three categories occur in the skill tree: "Prowler" concerns stealth, "Brave" improves combat, and "Forager" increases healing and gathering capabilities.[19] To level up, Aloy attains experience points from individual kills and completing quests.[20] Upgrades in each category result in more adept use of the skills learned, with "Prowler" leading to silent takedowns, "Brave" to aiming a bow in slow motion, and "Forager" to an enlarged medicine pouch.[21][22] The Frozen Wilds added "Traveler", which unlocks the ability to jump off a mount to attack enemies.[23] The game has a seamless open world with a day-night cycle and dynamic weather system.[10][24][25]

The map is composed of forest, jungle, desert, and snowy mountain regions.[26][18] Mountainous terrain is traversed with the employment of parkour,[27] and aided by the use of zip-lines.[28] Corrupted Zones constitute areas that heighten difficulty and are populated by corrupted machines that behave with more aggression.[9] To uncover more of the map, Aloy must scale large giraffe-like machines known as Tallnecks.[29] Twenty-five robotic creature designs are present in the game.[30] Save points and fast travel can be accessed by interacting with campfires, once discovered.[19] The quest structure unfolds to accommodate the exploration of tribes, while the main story covers the entire world.[31] Side quests involve Aloy completing tasks, like gathering materials, coming to the aid of individuals in danger of being killed, solving mysteries, assuming control of bandit camps, eliminating criminals and more difficult machines, accomplishing various challenges at any of the five Hunting Grounds,[6][32] and obtaining an ancient armour that makes Aloy almost impervious to damage.[12] A dialogue wheel is used to communicate with non-player characters.[13] Collectibles include vantages that offer visual information of the Old World, metal flowers that contain poetry, and old relics, such as ancient mugs and tribal artifacts.[33]

Synopsis

Setting

The story is set in a post-apocalyptic United States, between the states of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah, in the 31st century. Humans live in scattered, primitive tribes with varying levels of technological development. Their technologically advanced predecessors are remembered as the "Old Ones". Large robotic creatures, known as "machines", dominate the Earth. For the most part, they peacefully coexist with humans, who occasionally hunt them for parts. However, a phenomenon known as the "Derangement" has caused machines to become more aggressive towards humans, and larger and deadlier machines have begun to appear. There are four tribes that are prominently featured: the Nora, the Banuk, the Carja and the Oseram. The Nora are fierce hunter-gatherers who live in the mountains and worship nature as the "All-Mother". The Carja are desert-dwelling city builders who worship the Sun. The Banuk consists of wandering clans made up of hunters and shamans who live in snowy mountains and worship the machines and their "songs". The Oseram are tinkerers and salvagers known for their metalworking, brewing, and talent as warriors.[6]

Plot

Aloy (Ashly Burch) was cast out from the Nora tribe at birth and raised by a fellow outcast named Rost (JB Blanc). As a child (Ava Potter), she obtained a Focus, a small augmented reality device that gives her special perceptive abilities, after accidentally discovering a cave used by the Old Ones.

At an early age, Aloy becomes curious about her mother. Rost tells her only the tribe's leaders, the Matriarchs, would know, but as outcasts they have no right to know such things. After Aloy saves a Nora boy only to watch him be reprimanded for speaking to her, Rost finally admits that the Matriarchs might tell her who her mother is if she were to win the "Proving", a competition to earn the right to become a Nora Brave, and by extension, a member of the tribe. Anyone who finishes the competition becomes a Brave, but the winner may ask anything of the Matriarchs. Aloy then spends several years training in combat, physical conditioning, and survival under Rost's instruction.

Upon reaching the age of 19, Aloy is permitted to take part in a festival leading up to the Proving. She is treated with distrust and contempt by most of the villagers and witnesses a group of outsiders arrive to deliver a message of peace from the Sun King of the Carja, Avad. One of them, an Oseram named Olin (Chook Sibtain), is also wearing a Focus. Olin acts suspiciously and refuses to tell Aloy where he found the Focus. Aloy wins the Proving, but the Nora are attacked by masked cultists and most of the newly minted Braves are killed. Aloy is almost killed by their leader, Helis (Crispin Freeman), who also wears a Focus, but Rost sacrifices himself to save her. When Aloy awakes, the Matriarch Teersa explains that when she was an infant, she was found at the foot of a sealed door within the Nora's sacred mountain. To find the cultists, the Matriarchs name Aloy as a "Seeker", allowing her to leave the Nora's "Sacred Land".

When Aloy tracks down Olin, he reveals that the cultists are part of a secretive Carja faction called the "Eclipse" and admits to working for them for the safety of his family. He indicates that Aloy was targeted due to her resemblance to an Old World scientist named Dr. Elisabet Sobeck (also voiced by Burch), and it was by seeing her through his Focus that they were made aware of her existence. Aloy locates the ruined corporate campus of Faro Automated Solutions at "Maker's End" and discovers that the Old World was destroyed nearly 1,000 years ago after Faro lost control of its automated "peacekeeper" military robots. The robots, which could self-replicate and consumed biomass as fuel, overran the planet and consumed the biosphere, stripping Earth of all life. Zero Dawn, a project spearheaded by Dr. Sobeck, was then initiated using funding from Faro to create an automated terraforming system, with the goal of deactivating the robots and restoring both the Earth and the human race.[6][34]

Aloy is contacted by Sylens (Lance Reddick), a wanderer interested in uncovering what happened to the Old Ones. Aloy eventually learns that Dr. Sobeck was sent to an "Orbital Launch Base" to complete Zero Dawn and Sylens reveals that the base is located under the Citadel, the center of Eclipse power. Aloy accesses the base and inside, she learns that Zero Dawn was a vast underground system of databases, factories, and cloning facilities controlled by a highly advanced artificial intelligence, GAIA (Lesley Ewen). As Earth was consumed, GAIA activated its subfunctions, starting with MINERVA, who broke the encryption over the course of decades for the FARO war machines and built the Spire, which broadcast a signal to disable them. GAIA then began directing the rejuvenation of the atmosphere and oceans, eventually reseeding life on Earth using stored DNA and specially built machines. Finally, humans would be artificially cloned by GAIA and sent out to repopulate the planet.

However, Aloy discovers that APOLLO, the system intended to educate the clones and ensure they would not repeat their predecessors' mistakes, was sabotaged by Theodore Faro, CEO of FARO industries; blaming human knowledge for enabling him to create the warbots and not wanting humans to know that he was responsible for the devastation of Earth, Faro erased APOLLO and murdered all of Zero Dawn's chief scientists before going into hiding. The loss of APOLLO resulted in the nascent human societies ignorant of the past and therefore unable to rebuild all that was lost.

Sylens and Aloy discover that the Eclipse are secretly controlled by HADES (John Gonzalez), one of GAIA's subsystems designed to enact "controlled extinction" if the outcome of Zero Dawn was not favorable for human existence. Reaching Dr. Sobeck's office, Aloy downloads a registry to give her access to the door from which she was born. She is captured by Helis and sentenced to death at the Citadel, but escapes with the help of Sylens. Aloy helps the Nora fight off an Eclipse siege of the sacred mountain and unlocks the door.[6][34] She finds a recording left behind by GAIA, revealing that a signal of unknown origin corrupted HADES' programming, causing it to attempt to seize control of her functions before GAIA self-destructed to prevent the takeover. Without GAIA to maintain the terraforming process, the full restoration of Earth was left incomplete. Before deletion, GAIA engineered the creation of a clone of Dr. Sobeck in the form of Aloy, in the hope that she would find GAIA's message, destroy HADES, and restore GAIA's functions. Aloy learns that Dr. Sobeck sacrificed her life to stop the Faro warbots from finding and destroying GAIA.

Aloy manages to obtain the master override necessary to destroy HADES from GAIA's core facility. Sylens admits that he was the original founder of the Eclipse after restoring HADES, and now wishes to atone for his mistakes. With Sylens' help, Aloy deduces that HADES intends to use the "Spire", a monument built over the Carja capital city of Meridian, to reawaken the Faro warbots and fulfill its purpose. Aloy kills Helis and helps fight off waves of corrupted machines, before stabbing HADES with Sylens' modified lance and activating the master override, ending the war. She journeys to Dr. Sobeck's old home, finding her bones in her environment suit, and has a moment of mourning for her predecessor. In a post-credits scene, HADES is shown to still be alive, but trapped by Sylens, who intends to interrogate HADES to find out who sent the signal that activated it.[6]

The Frozen Wilds

Aloy travels to the "Cut", the home of the Banuk tribe, after hearing word of dangerous machines appearing and a mountain belching smoke. She learns from Aratak (Richard Neil), chieftain of the largest Banuk clan, that the Banuk have been attempting to battle a "Daemon" on the mountain, "Thunder's Drum", which has corrupted the machines of the Cut. However, their first attack had been a failure, and their shaman, Ourea, had disappeared afterwards. Aloy searches for Ourea, coming across strange robotic towers which both control and repair the corrupted machines. She finds Ourea (Necar Zadegan) in an Old World facility that had been converted into a Banuk shrine and is housing an artificial intelligence the shaman calls the "Spirit". Aloy is able to make contact with the Spirit, which warns Ourea that the Daemon is blocking its transmissions before being cut off. Aloy and Ourea agree to work together to save the Spirit. Per Ourea's advice, Aloy defeats Aratak in a hunting competition, taking his place as chieftain. She also discovers that Aratak and Ourea are siblings.[35]

Aloy, Ourea, and Aratak head for Thunder's Drum. They infiltrate the Old World facility built inside the mountain, where Aloy discovers that the Spirit is actually CYAN (Laurel Lefkow), a highly advanced AI designed to prevent the Yellowstone Caldera from erupting. Traveling further inside, they discover that the Daemon has already overtaken much of the facility, but CYAN suggests using lava from the caldera to destroy the infected areas while preserving the facility. It is also revealed that the Daemon is in fact HEPHAESTUS (Stefan Ashton Frank), another of GAIA's subsystems that manufactures machines. The group fights through HEPHAESTUS' defenses and Ourea sacrifices herself to override CYAN's core, allowing it to escape. CYAN transfers its core systems to an auxiliary data center and initiates self-destruction of the facility. Aloy and Aratak narrowly escape. Aloy returns to the Banuk Shrine, where CYAN is waiting; the AI provides additional information about the Old World but warns that HEPHAESTUS is still active somewhere and will continue to build machines designed specifically to kill humans, which is why it tried to seize control of CYAN and its facilities. Returning Aratak to his previous position as Chieftain, Aloy departs the Cut.[35]

Development

Guerrilla Games began developing Horizon Zero Dawn following the release of Killzone 3 in 2011.[36] When conceiving the idea for a new game, about 40 concepts were pitched. Among these was Horizon Zero Dawn, which game director Mathijs de Jonge considered "the most risky" of the concepts and was pitched in 2010 by art director Jan-Bart van Beek.[37][38] When this concept was chosen, a team of 10–20 began building prototypes of the game.[37][38] Approximately 20 different stories were written for the game, exploring varying concepts for the game, such as different player characters. John Gonzalez, who previously acted as lead writer for Fallout: New Vegas (2010), was hired to write the game's story as narrative director, with Ben McCaw as lead writer. The main elements of the story and the character of Aloy remained intact since early development.[37][38][39] Upon the completion of Killzone: Shadow Fall in late 2013, the remainder of the staff began working on Horizon Zero Dawn.[40] Guerrilla cancelled another game to allow the entire team to focus on the development of Horizon.[41] Sony would later admit to being reluctant about having the main character be female and conducted focus testing to see if such a decision was marketable.[42] The game had an estimated budget of over €45 million.[43]

The game's concept explores the juxtaposition between the danger and beauty of the world, particularly analysing the concept of humanity not being the dominant species. The team aimed to emphasise the game's exploration element by featuring a quest system, as well as including items throughout the world that can be used to craft or replenish health.[37] The team wished for the game to have a simple user interface design, specifically avoiding complicated menus for crafting, and considered the game to be a technical challenge.[44] They felt that the game engine, Decima,[45] which was designed for games such as the Killzone series and was previously used for Killzone: Shadow Fall,[46] was difficult to alter for Horizon, in terms of draw distance and loading. To discover how some game elements work differently in open world games, the team sought help from talent in the design, art and technical fields.[44] In extrapolating the game world, Guerrilla turned to anthropologists and researched the formation of tribal cultures as well as how building materials would decay over a millennium.[38] The game's quest system and narrative design took inspiration from other role-playing video games, ranging from the "Relaxed" quest design of RPG Maker games to the "Strict" quest design of hack and slash games. They defined "Relaxed" quest design as having few centralised systems for managing quest progression, and "Strict" quest design as having a rigid structure and predefined elements, with the team deciding the latter.[47][48]

Lead composer Joris de Man used experimental instrumentation in the score

Lance Reddick and Ashly Burch's involvement was revealed in January 2017.[30][49] Burch voiced Aloy,[30] whose likeness was portrayed by Hannah Hoekstra[50] and motion capture was performed by Amanda Piery in London. Following an auditioning process in 2014, Burch was called in to do the E3 2015 trailer and proceeded to work on the game for two years in Los Angeles, providing facial motion capture as well.[51]

The game's soundtrack was composed by Joris de Man, The Flight, Niels van der Leest, and Jonathan Williams, with vocalist Julie Elven serving as the primary performer.[52][53] Lucas van Tol, music supervisor and senior sound designer, provided the composers with a game design document, insisting on an intimate sound for the score. For the tribal theme, they experimented with bows on piano wire and resonator guitars (with layered tracks of harmonicas on top of the latter) and playing cellos with plectrums or the back of a bow to convey how contemporary instruments would be played by someone to whom the instruments were unknown; de Man also used a contrabass flute and made synth pads from blowing on a Thai bamboo flute, noting "distant pads and ambiences, and wide, spread out chords seemed to work well". Circuit-bent synthesizers and percussive loops, run through impulse responses of metal and iron being beaten, were devoted to making a thematic identifier for the machines based on technology and metal. Van Tol required that the music be supplied in stems so that different pieces could be combined. The positive response to the first E3 trailer's main theme led it to be included in the main menu. The composers also did the motion capture for diegetic music vignettes, portraying in-game tribal musicians.[54][55] The four-hour soundtrack was released via digital music platforms on 10 March 2017.[56][57]

Release

The concept art as well as the game's codename, Horizon, were leaked in September 2014.[58] Horizon Zero Dawn was officially announced during Sony's E3 2015 press conference.[59] The game was featured as the cover story in the September 2015 issue of Edge and the October 2016 issue of Game Informer.[60][61] At E3 2016, Sony had a life-sized cosplay version of one of the machines greet the trade show attendees.[62] Originally set to be released in 2016, the game was delayed to February 2017 to be further polished.[63] It was released to manufacturing in late January 2017,[64] and launched to North American markets on 28 February 2017, in Europe, Australia and New Zealand on 1 March and Asia on 2 March for the PlayStation 4.[65][66] Horizon Zero Dawn is forward compatible with the PS4 Pro,[28] allowing it to run up to 4K resolution.[67] In April 2017, a making-of documentary was released on Dutch public television.[68] By March 2017, a story expansion had already been set in motion.[69] New Game Plus, an Ultra Hard difficulty mode, additional trophies and aesthetic features were introduced with a patch released in July 2017.[70] The expansion, The Frozen Wilds, was released on 7 November 2017.[71][72] The Complete Edition, which contains the base game, The Frozen Wilds, and all additional downloadable content (DLC), was released for the PlayStation 4 on 5 December 2017 and Microsoft Windows via Steam on 7 August 2020 and GOG on 24 November 2020.[73][74] A tabletop game adaptation is being developed by Steamforged Games.[75]

Reception

Horizon Zero Dawn received "generally favorable" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator Metacritic.[76] Destructoid's Chris Carter commended Ashly Burch and Lance Reddick for their performances, with the character of Aloy receiving credit for maintaining a "captivating" and "interesting" consistency in the narrative and action sequences. Carter also lauded the focus on exploration and discovery, which he said grew more effective as he traversed more of the land. The game world itself was subject to compliment for its "beautiful" day-night cycle and weather system. According to Carter, the challenging nature of the machines and varied methods with which to battle them brought a real sense of fun to the combat.[78] Matt Buchholtz of EGMNow likewise praised Burch as well as the game world, which he found to be mesmerising. Considered the most powerful part of the game, the Focus feature gained approval for complementing the combat in a way that "forces you to become a hunter".[27] Writing for Game Informer, Jeff Marchiafava opined that, unlike with other open world video games, searching for audio logs and emails provided the plot with a "remarkable sense of discovery". He was thankful that story-based missions dominated the overall experience, arguing that they worked to detail the world and inspired gameplay variation.[79]

Peter Brown at GameSpot reflected on Aloy's character development with amazement. One constant thrill to Brown came from combating the machines, which he said took the spotlight and never lost its flair. He appreciated also that the main quests encouraged one to explore the environment.[80] Zoe Delahunty-Light, writing for GamesRadar+, was fascinated with the intricacies of the world and found integral value in the lore scattered among the ruins. She echoed Brown's view that fighting machines maintained excitement throughout.[81] Giant Bomb's Jeff Gerstmann declared Horizon Zero Dawn as "a near-perfect story" with a satisfying conclusion, and emphasised that it contained substantial depth.[82] Lucy O'Brien at IGN admired its weight in meaning, while welcoming the charm of the protagonist's personality. A considerable impression was made with the combat, which was stated as the most compelling accomplishment.[83] Writing for Polygon, Philip Kollar applauded the game as what he dubbed the "refutation" of Guerrilla Games' past work, a change of pace he described as "refreshing". Aloy was observed to be perfectly coupled with the story in that she offered the curiosity to seek out its many mysteries. Kollar perceived the Focus as "key to combat" and the machines as engaging foes in battle.[84] Colm Ahern of VideoGamer.com wrote in his verdict, "Destroying large robot beasts while frantically switching between weapons is intoxicating, but the strength of Horizon Zero Dawn is in Aloy's engaging quest to find out who she really is".[86]

Conversely, Carter saw the characters beyond Aloy and Sylens as uninteresting and bland in their designs. He also disparaged the human artificial intelligence as being worse than that of the machines.[78] To Buchholtz, the weapon system in relation to ammunition appeared convoluted; the ability to only purchase one item at a time "a massive oversight"; and Aloy's ability to only grab marked ledges was confusing for a "parkour master".[27] Marchiafava's only major criticism was that it held too familiar roots with established open world formula.[79] Although Brown drew enjoyment from other aspects of combat, he disparaged the melee for its ineffectiveness and simplicity.[80] Delahunty-Light concurred that the melee fell short of its potential, and also took issue with the jumping mechanic.[81] O'Brien felt the dialogue occasionally contradicted the otherwise intelligent narrative.[83] Kollar bemoaned the character models as its one visual shortcoming.[84]

Game director Yoko Taro listed it as one of his favourite PlayStation 4 games.[87] Entertainment Weekly ranked it as the fourth best game of 2017,[88] GamesRadar+ ranked it second on their list of the 25 Best Games of 2017,[89] and Eurogamer ranked it 31st on their list of the "Top 50 Games of 2017".[90] The Verge named Horizon Zero Dawn as one of the 15 Best Games of 2017.[91] In Game Informer's Reader's Choice Best of 2017 Awards, it took the lead for "Best Sony Game", coming up in second place for both "Best Action Game" and "Game of the Year".[92][93] Game Informer also awarded it "Best Sony Exclusive" in their Best of 2017 Awards, and also gave it the awards for "Best Story" and "Best Character" (Aloy) in their 2017 Action Game of the Year Awards.[94][95] EGMNow ranked the game third in their list of 25 Best Games of 2017,[96] while Polygon ranked it eighth on their list of the 50 best games of 2017.[97] The game won the Gold Prize and Users Choice Prize at the 2017 PlayStation Awards.[98] It was nominated for "Best PS4 Game" at Destructoid's Game of the Year Awards 2017.[99] It also won the awards for "Best PlayStation 4 Game" and "Best Graphics" at IGN's Best of 2017 Awards,[100][101] whereas its other nominations were for "Game of the Year", "Best Action-Adventure Game", and "Best Art Direction".[102][103][104] It was nominated for "Best Looking Game" at Giant Bomb's 2017 Game of the Year Awards.[105] In 2018, it won the awards for Best PS4 Game, Best Performance for Ashly Burch, Best Art Direction, Best Soundtrack, Best Story, Best Post-Release Content, Best PlayStation Console Exclusive, and Best Use of PS4 Pro at PlayStation Blog's Game of the Year Awards.[106]

Sales

Horizon Zero Dawn was the best-selling game during its release week in the UK.[107] It surpassed No Man's Sky as the biggest launch of a new intellectual property on the PlayStation 4 and was the most successful launch of any kind on the platform since Uncharted 4: A Thief's End,[108] as well as Guerrilla Games' biggest debut to date.[109] The game sold close to 117,000 copies in its first week in Japan, becoming the second best-selling game that week.[110] Horizon Zero Dawn was the second most downloaded game on the North American PlayStation Store for February. Because its launch day occurred on the last day of February, only one day of sales was counted.[111] Within two weeks it sold 2.6 million units.[112][113]

It was the best-selling game in its week of release in Australia.[114] In March 2017, it was the second best-selling game in the UK and the highest-selling PlayStation 4 game.[115] Horizon Zero Dawn was also the best-selling game on PlayStation Store that month.[116] It was ranked number one in the UK sales chart in April 2017, while hitting eighth place in the Japanese chart.[117] By February 2018, over 7.6 million copies had been sold,[118] increasing to over 10 million a year later, making it one of the best-selling PlayStation 4 games.[119] By February 2022, over 20 million copies sold in PlayStation 4 and Windows platforms.[120]

In an effort to increase profitability, in 2020 Sony decided to begin porting their first-party titles to PC.[121] Horizon Zero Dawn released on PC on August 2020 and had a successful launch, moving over 700,000 digital copies.[122]

In February 2022, Hermen Hulst announced via his Twitter account that the game had sold over 20 million copies as 28 November 2021.[123]

Awards

Year Award Category Result Ref
2015 Game Critics Awards Best of Show Nominated [124]
Best Original Game Won
Best Console Game Nominated
Best Action/Adventure Game Nominated
2016 Best of Show Nominated [125][126]
Best Original Game Won
Best Console Game Nominated
Best Action/Adventure Game Nominated
Gamescom 2016 Best Preview/Vision Won [127]
Golden Joystick Awards Most Wanted Game Nominated [128][129]
The Game Awards Most Anticipated Game Nominated [130]
2017 The Independent Game Developers' Association Awards Audio Design Nominated [131]
Diversity Award Nominated
Role Playing Game Won
Golden Joystick Awards Best Storytelling Won [132][133][134]
Best Visual Design Runner-Up
Best Gaming Performance (Ashly Burch) Won
Best PlayStation Game Won
Ultimate Game of the Year Runner-Up
Best Audio Nominated
The Game Awards Game of the Year Nominated [135]
Best Game Direction Nominated
Best Narrative Nominated
Best Art Direction Nominated
Best Performance (Ashly Burch) Nominated
Best Action/Adventure Game Nominated
2018 45th Annie Awards Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in a Video Game Nominated [136]
Writers Guild of America Awards 2017 Outstanding Achievement in Videogame Writing Won [137][138]
21st Annual D.I.C.E. Awards Game of the Year Nominated [139][140]
Adventure Game of the Year Nominated
Outstanding Achievement in Animation Nominated
Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction Nominated
Outstanding Achievement in Character (Aloy) Nominated
Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition Nominated
Outstanding Achievement in Story Won
Outstanding Technical Achievement Won
Outstanding Achievement in Game Design Nominated
Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction Nominated
SXSW Gaming Awards Excellence in Visual Achievement Won [141][142]
Excellence in Animation Nominated
Most Promising New Intellectual Property Won
Excellence in Gameplay Nominated
Excellence in Design Nominated
Video Game of the Year Nominated
Game Developers Choice Awards Best Audio Nominated [143][144]
Best Design Nominated
Best Narrative Nominated
Best Technology Won
Best Visual Art Nominated
Game of the Year Nominated
14th British Academy Games Awards Artistic Achievement Nominated [145][146]
Audio Achievement Nominated
Best Game Nominated
Game Design Nominated
Music Nominated
Narrative Nominated
Original Property Won
Performer (Ashly Burch) Nominated
Ivor Novello Awards Best Original Video Game Score Won [147]

Sequel

In June 2020, Guerrilla announced a sequel titled Horizon Forbidden West. It was released on February 18, 2022.[148][149]

Notes

  1. ^ Microsoft Windows version ported by Virtuos, with additional work by Nixxes Software.

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