Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores
Travel beyond the Forbidden West as Aloy’s story continues. Encounter new machines and a compelling new story. South of the Tenakth Clan Lands, millennia of volcanic eruptions and violent seismic activity have…
Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores is an adventure developed by Guerrilla Games, released 19 April 2023 on PlayStation 5 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores is
Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores is an adventure game developed by Guerrilla Games and released in 2023. It was published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 5 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Decima.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Travel beyond the Forbidden West as Aloy’s story continues. Encounter new machines and a compelling new story. South of the Tenakth Clan Lands, millennia of volcanic eruptions and violent seismic activity have carved the ruins of Los Angeles into a treacherous archipelago. Experience the next chapter of Horizon Forbidden West as Aloy pursues a sinister new threat to the planet, hidden among these dangerous, untamed wilds.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, open world and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Horizon series
Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores is the 12th of 18 entries we hold in the Horizon series. The next entry was Horizon Forbidden West: Complete Edition in 2023. Its critic score of 81 is 4 points below the series average of 85. The highest-rated entry is Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition at 93.
How it was received
Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 5 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 81, across 53 votes.
What it launched against
Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores launched on 19 April 2023, within three weeks of Dead Island 2, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Dredge and Honkai: Star Rail. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Dead Island 2, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Dredge, Honkai: Star Rail.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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