Horizon Zero Dawn

Horizon Zero Dawn is an adventure game developed by Guerrilla Games and released in 2017. 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 age rating.

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, drama, open world and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 79 achievements to unlock.

Horizon Zero Dawn is the first of 18 entries we hold in the Horizon series. The next entry was Horizon Zero Dawn: Limited Edition in 2017. Its critic score of 89 is 4 points above the series average of 85. The highest-rated entry is Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition at 93.

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Horizon Zero Dawn holds a critic score of 89 out of 100. That places it above 91% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 88, across 2,486 votes.

The main story runs about 59 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 83.6 hrs, roughly 1.4 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $49.99, that works out to about $0.85 per hour of the main story, or $0.60 per hour if you finish everything.

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-2500K@3.3GHz or AMD FX 6300@3.5GHz, 8 GB RAM and Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 (3 GB) or AMD Radeon R9 290 (4GB). An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. It also needs around 100GB 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 $49.99 at Steam.

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Horizon Zero Dawn launched on 28 February 2017, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Mass Effect: Andromeda, NieR: Automata and Hollow Knight. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It was a PlayStation 5 launch-window title.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Mass Effect: Andromeda, NieR: Automata, Hollow Knight.

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