Horizon Forbidden West is the long-awaited sequel to one of PlayStation’s biggest recent franchise starters, Horizon Zero Dawn. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where feral machines roam like beasts and dinosaurs, the seeds of a new civilization have emerged and begun to rebuild. But the nascent tribal societies are threatened by both the machines and each other. The heroine Aloy emerged as humanity’s champion in Zero Dawn, and she’s back to unlock new mysteries in Forbidden West as she journeys toward the wreckage of the American west coast. Horizon Forbidden West will serve as a showpiece for the PS5, though it’s also appearing on PS4 as well. Here’s everything we know about Horizon Forbidden West.
Release date
Horizon Forbidden West releases on February 18. The game was first set for launch in 2021, as part of the PlayStation 5 launch window lineup. PlayStation Studios boss Hermen Hulst signaled that the release date was likely to slip out of the holiday season, and sure enough, Sony delayed it into 2022. That delay actually had an unexpected impact on the price as a cross-gen game.