Horizon Zero Dawn offered an unforgettable experience with its deeply engaging narrative that, unlike typical formulaic plots found in many games, was both coherent and thoughtfully constructed, free of plot holes, creating a unique paracosm that truly deserves recognition.

As for the characters, they were of considerable interest, with arcs deeply engaging—nothing like the typical video game extras who vanish from memory after handing out a quest. Additionally, the physics and visuals, for a game of this age, are quite exceptional, holding up incredibly well by today’s standards. The music was perfectly suited to each scene, especially in one particular moment near the end. Overall, it was a wonderful experience, and I am genuinely excited to dive into Forbidden West and continue the storyline where I left off in the near future.

Aloy is a woman 👍

Such a fun open world game, so good I had to 100% twice can't wait to get Horizon Forbidden West.

Its a good open world game with a decent story so far (28 hours in). There might be a lot of positive feedback here already, so I will focus on the points which I found annoying/ negatives -

1) The Skill tree is not really improving the gameplay outside of a few select skills. The rest of the skills are small improvements like getting more loot, or doing more spear damage, which are nice increments - but if after 10 hours all the remaining skills give me a `meh´, maybe it should be done better.
2) After the initial prologue, the map opens up to a huge area. This by itself isnt a bad thing, but the story and `good` side quests are so spaced out in the map that it makes it quite exhausting. The general side quests are not really memorable outside of a few where the dialogue or setting makes them shine. This leaves with a long time between actual quests doing just (after a while) monotonous open world stuff.
3) The facial animations are very stiff to the point where I think everyone is just angry to see Aloy. The voice acting saves the mood atleast.

The overall gameplay and combat has kept my attention so far and I will complete it definitely. This however does not take away the above negatives I pointed above. Have fun!

Great story line.

I played on the hardest difficulty and the combat is pretty engaging since you have to hit weakspots, but in the end game it got really stale since I could just spam sticky bombs to kill anything and everything

Moving around the map could see some improvements, you pretty much just run everywhere and although you can ride some of the robots the handling is so awkward and they move so slowly it's barely worth it

Also there was way too much loot clutter, and the stack limits in the inventory are super limited for some reason so you end up having 15 stacks of one type of item clogging up the inventory

Would recommend if you really like pre-historic setting and dinosaurs, besides that I'd say pick it up only if you've got nothing better to do

I have never been able to be so close to a woman before.
With Aloy I was on so many dates at so many different and beautiful places.

We even went on adventures together. That was my first time to spend more than just one second of my life with a woman without being called a creep.

good game

(i hate the hunting grounds)

Great game, it runs smoothly on the Steam Deck, has an awesome plot, the gameplay mechanics are solid, and I had a lot of fun playing it. Perhaps in time will get 100% achievements. 9 / 10

My horse... Where the f*ck is my horse?!