Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds
The Frozen Wilds contains additional content for Horizon Zero Dawn, including new storylines, characters and experiences in a beautiful but unforgiving new area.
Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds is an adventure developed by Guerrilla Games, released 7 November 2017 on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 6.5 hrs to finish.
What Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds is
Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds is an adventure game developed by Guerrilla Games and released in 2017. It was published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Decima.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Beyond the northern mountains, the borderlands of the Banuk tribe challenge all who dare enter to survive the extremes. But now this frozen wilderness harbors a new threat, and for Aloy, a new mystery - one she’s determined to solve.
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 Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds is the fourth of 18 entries we hold in the Horizon series. It arrived 7 months after Horizon Zero Dawn: Collector's Edition. The next entry was Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition in 2017. Its critic score of 85 is almost exactly the series average of 85. The highest-rated entry is Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition at 93.
How it was received
Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 14 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 85, across 124 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 24.1 hrs, roughly 3.7 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds launched on 7 November 2017, within three weeks of Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins and South Park: The Fractured But Whole. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Origins, South Park: The Fractured But Whole.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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