Horizon Forbidden West

Horizon Forbidden West is an adventure game developed by Guerrilla Games and released in 2022. It was published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Decima. It carries an ESRB T (Teen, 13+) age rating.

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. There are 80 achievements to unlock.

Horizon Forbidden West is the sixth of 18 entries we hold in the Horizon series. It arrived 4 years after Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition. The next entry was Horizon Forbidden West: Special Edition in 2022. Its critic score of 92 is 7 points above the series average of 85. The highest-rated entry is Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition at 93.

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Horizon Forbidden West holds a critic score of 92 out of 100. That places it above 97% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 89, across 394 votes.

The main story runs about 43.4 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 85.6 hrs, roughly 2 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $34.99, that works out to about $0.81 per hour of the main story, or $0.41 per hour if you finish everything.

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3-8100 or AMD Ryzen 3 1300X, 16 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4GB or AMD Radeon RX 5500XT 4GB. A 16GB memory requirement is demanding — worth checking before you buy, because 8GB is still common in older and budget machines. It also needs around 150GB of free storage, which is a real consideration on a 512GB drive. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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The cheapest verified price right now is $34.99 at GameBillet, 42% below its usual price. Across the 10 stores we track, the same game ranges up to $59.99 — a spread of $25.00 for an identical product. Storefront pricing varies enormously by country: India is the cheapest region we track at ₹3,999.00 (about $42.07), while South Africa pays R 1,149.00 — 1.7 times more. In Pakistan it is priced at Rs 60 on Steam, which is about $59.99.

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Horizon Forbidden West launched on 18 February 2022, within three weeks of Elden Ring, Dying Light 2: Stay Human, Vampire Survivors and Pokémon Legends: Arceus. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Elden Ring, Dying Light 2: Stay Human, Vampire Survivors, Pokémon Legends: Arceus.

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