Horizon Zero Dawn: Complete Edition

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  1. jonatasmv
    Oct 7, 2020
    3
    I bought this game to PS4 a year ago, and I paid around 10 dollars on it (R$40 in Brazil), and I loved it... the story, the missions, the characters, the graphics. But PC version it is unplayable!! Full Price on a (2017) game and still it was launched for PC with all those problems!! This is unacceptable...there is no excuses for that!!
  2. WhyNot2018
    Aug 13, 2021
    10
    one of the best singleplayer games i've played on PS4, and will probably motivate me to get a PS5 just for Horizon: Forbidden West. simply 10/10, no, let me take that back, 100/10, just a breathtaking experience, but massively dissapointed though the sequel isn't going to continue with the story relating the ending of HZD, but overall a magnificient game.
  3. Ascgmartin
    Aug 27, 2020
    4
    Il gioco si presenta in condizioni pessime.

    Sul mio pc (hardware : gpu 2080 sea hawk, cpu rayzen 5 3600, ram 16 gb Vengeance da 3200,) il gioco e consigliato in alto, ma comunque presenta problemi di micro lag e scatti, ma non è la cosa più grave anzi, la cosa peggiore e che presenta problemi con credo il caricamento o dei poligoni o delle texture, siccome i personaggi e alcuni oggetti    Il gioco si presenta in condizioni pessime.

    Sul mio pc (hardware : gpu 2080 sea hawk, cpu rayzen 5 3600, ram 16 gb Vengeance da 3200,) il gioco e consigliato in alto, ma comunque presenta problemi di micro lag e scatti, ma non è la cosa più grave anzi, la cosa peggiore e che presenta problemi con credo il caricamento o dei poligoni o delle texture, siccome i personaggi e alcuni oggetti (alberi bestie montagne persino il suolo) nel ambientazione si ritrovano deformati come se fossero tirati, e creano forme completamente assurde anche durante le cutscene ad esempio io durante una delle prime cutscene non vedevo nulla perche un albero copriva tutto, praticamente un albero ai lati del inquadratura era diventato talmente largo da coprire tutto.
    Ad un mio amico invece tutto questo non succede il suo pc mota una 1050 ti e un i 7 non mi ricordo la gen, e a lui questi problemi non capitano ma in compenso ha crash continui gli fps che vanno da 15 a 62 senza essere stabili, anche lui ha riscontrato problemi con i modelli, texture ma solo sulla protagonista,essi sono estrema semplificazione del modello ovvero era un triangolo strano per il petto e una forma che non so definire per le gambe ma il volto era normale, e un altra volta la pelle era diventata completamente trasparente ma questi due bug sono successi solo una volta uno dietro l'altro e poi non si sono ripetuti, per ora.
    Io vi consiglio caldamente di aspettare le patch    … Expand
  4. Mohammadjavadh
    Aug 10, 2020
    8
    Story is awsome and the game visual graphic is enough to take hours of your time saying "WOW" is this Really a videogame?
    Annnnnddddddd yeah it has a bad port but nut an awful one play the game and enjoy it let not the bad port bother you
    Story :10/10
    Gameplay:9/10
    Graphic :9/10
  5. Bruh_MrSushi
    Aug 12, 2020
    7
    Just get a crack or wait for the game to get patched. It has several bugs and issues, but story wise and gameplay wise, it has a few flaws but is pretty great.
  6. Yox92
    Aug 13, 2020
    9
    Seriously it s been a long Time since i ve not play a very good game like this game. In the begin it s very long to enter on the open world but after 1 hours u can. With my gpu on 144 hz 1440p it s a very beautiful game. The world is wonderfu.
  7. Asterysm
    Aug 13, 2020
    8
    The game isn't perfectly unbuggy, but there are a lot of people who seem to really enjoy creating their own problems.

    Don't precompile shaders without forced antistropic filtering, then force it. That's a bad idea, and will cause you issues. Don't try to run it below minimum specs because "other AAA games are fine". This is a console port. It won't run as well as a multi-platform    The game isn't perfectly unbuggy, but there are a lot of people who seem to really enjoy creating their own problems.

    Don't precompile shaders without forced antistropic filtering, then force it. That's a bad idea, and will cause you issues.

    Don't try to run it below minimum specs because "other AAA games are fine". This is a console port. It won't run as well as a multi-platform developed game.

    An alarming amount of the complainers on reddit have comment history showing they're doing one of these two things.

    As far as general recommendations, the frame limiter and vsync in-game tend to hit performance harder than I'd like. The clouds seem to be a bit too taxing as well, even if they look nice. Turn em to Medium/High, unless you're taking screenshots. It also favors high end AMD GPUs, so that's an easy win if you have one. Just make sure it's running at PCI-E x16, the game uses all the bandwidth it can get! It does appear from the limited benchmarks I've seen that AMD CPUs fall behind due to lower single core performance. Definitely takes more resources than it should at 4k, and underperforms. If you want to run 4k, it seems like turning down the resolution scaling and not trying to play at Ultra is the right way to go. You will probably still go down to 60fps for the average lows, and peak around 75ish, even with the best non-sli hardware around, unless you turn the settings down to medium, which will gain you 5-10, in my experience. I don't play on my TV most of the time though, I play on a 1440p monitor where my 2080ti/6700k gets me 75-95 FPS. Occasionally with a lot of enemies and explosions all going on, it'll dip to 60s, and one time I saw it in the 50s for about a second and a half. Don't try to run it on ultra if you want high FPS. I'm about halfway between Ultra and Medium, settings wise.

    By not f***ing around with forced settings on the GPU drivers, running the latest drivers, and having all my windows updates and drivers up to date, I have yet to crash at about 30 hours in.

    All that being said, the game itself is very fun, as anyone who played it on PS4 already knows. It's a little cheesy on the time slowdown mechanics, but I'm nowhere near good enough to beat Ultra Hard without it.

    My big drawbacks are having to precompile shaders on first run. I would like to see them have a way around this. I also would like performance to be better, but a console port may not improve too much. It's best on higher end hardware. I'd say 1070 or higher, and 6700k or better intel, or Ryzen 2 3800x or better. I'd also have preferred it to be cheaper, but I picked it up for $45, which is decent enough, considering I've already gotten 30 hours, and will probably get 100 more.    … Expand
  8. T-Opel
    Aug 21, 2022
    10
    Absolutely amazing, highly recommended! The graphics, story, gameplay, and music are absolutely superb. I have not enjoyed open-world exploration this much in ages. And even though some of the side quests are quite simple, they still felt engaging because I cared about the world and its settings. The story is also a very nice twist on a traditional formula. Moreover, the game is very wellAbsolutely amazing, highly recommended! The graphics, story, gameplay, and music are absolutely superb. I have not enjoyed open-world exploration this much in ages. And even though some of the side quests are quite simple, they still felt engaging because I cared about the world and its settings. The story is also a very nice twist on a traditional formula. Moreover, the game is very well polished, I have encountered almost no bugs in my 60+ hours playthrough.… Expand
  9. pmasterfunk
    Apr 30, 2021
    7
    As a man without a PS4, when I first saw this game, I was kinda sad I didn't have access to it. Thankfully Horizon Zero Dawn went to PC and it quickly got onto my wishlist to purchase at a later date at a discount.

    And I'm not sure how I feel about it. The story is thought-provoking, but not really through its plot. I’ll stay spoiler-free, but basically the setup to the premise is    As a man without a PS4, when I first saw this game, I was kinda sad I didn't have access to it. Thankfully Horizon Zero Dawn went to PC and it quickly got onto my wishlist to purchase at a later date at a discount.

    And I'm not sure how I feel about it.

    The story is thought-provoking, but not really through its plot. I’ll stay spoiler-free, but basically the setup to the premise is more interesting than the events that take place in the game. I also feel like there’s also a bit of a dissonance between the overarching theme and the events that happen in the game. There’s critique of capitalism and blind fanaticism and cult of personality, but it’s also not really relevant to the plot. Neither Aloy nor any of the secondary characters seem to face moral dilemmas, it’s all very clear-cut good vs bad, and I feel like that’s a missed opportunity. Killing machines serves a purpose, and I never felt bad about it like in say, Nier: Automata, but killing tons of humans indiscriminately feels strange in a story that is ultimately about saving humanity.

    You meet randos who have family members that are any combination of lost/injured/imprisoned, and saving them never feels particularly satisfying. These sidequests often come down to vengeance, but there's never any discussion about whether the resulting violence and death are really justifiable.

    Aloy is a decent main character, but it seems like she suffers from Captain Marvel syndrome; she seems to be defined less by a personality and more a combination of adjectives. “Strong”, “honest”, “courageous”, “empathetic, yet sassy”. She seems like a forced attempt at feminism, but considering a lot of her actions are dictated by male mentor figures it feels a bit vapid.

    She doesn’t have much agency, she doesn’t have much of a plan, she somewhat randomly ends up where she needs to be, and because she’s “special” she kinda just happens to save the world.

    The supporting cast is really weak. Don’t you love it when a character goes: "I will tell you these things later, as I've been sworn to secrec- GAHHH I'M DEAD". There's a minor antagonist that gets killed early on that could have been a really interesting character. His death doesn't have any impact, since we barely know the guy it's not even mildly cathartic, and there's so much that could have been done with him instead as a survivor.

    From a purely mechanical point of view, the game is quite polished. Menus look good, interactions are snappy and responsive, voice acting is really good, but the conversations have that weird [Jim Sterling voice] TRIPLE A [/JSV] format that I personally find odd and jarring. Loading times are a pain, but once in-game it plays pretty seamlessly. It annoys me that lots of save points are really close to enemy spawn points. I wish the world had less enemies so that walking around randomly weren’t such a stress-inducing activity. Resource management is a pain, and I found myself going back to earlier areas to farm stuff on occasion.

    The game is visually impressive, even on my semi-potato of a computer. I kinda wish the visual style were a bit less realistic, as I really enjoy Loish's concept art. The enemy designs in particular are great. As impressive as the world looks, it does feel a bit empty – apart from those machines. A lot of really interesting vistas serve no purpose beyond being eye candy. I've often thought: "Look at this old dilapidated building on a small island, surrounded by dangerous machines, surely there's something inside!"

    Nope.

    Destroying machines is pretty fun, though it can get tedious when facing large groups of them. Any one machine can do quite a bit of damage in a single hit, so stealthily taking them out one by one seems to be the prime tactic. Once the enemy number becomes less than 2, melee strategies become functional and the difficulty drops tremendously, even against the really big guys. Large enemies have tons of HP, so killing them often turns into a battle of attrition. However most story related battles have you start in plain view of the enemies, so those great stealth tactics I’d spent hours honing went down the crapper.

    Flying enemies suck.

    Ultimately, am I going to replay this at some point? Probably not. The story did leave me uneasy (in a good way I suppose), but most of the interesting stuff is told through exposition dumps found in discoverable info drops, which is inefficient and kind of a boring when it happens. It’s dark and depressing, and it got me thinking about my own mortality, but the emotional impact it had felt somewhat exploitative. None of the actual plot has any moral ambiguity or much emotional depth, that stuff is only relegated to backstory and premise setup. The action isn’t good enough to bring me back, either.

    I gotta say it’s pretty cool that they got cool AF badass Lance Reddick in the game... but I wish it were LeVar Burton.    … Expand
  10. Anarkroft
    Sep 4, 2021
    8
    Un univers original, un personnage féminin fort. Sur le papier, beaucoup de belles promesses, qui donnent envie d'y jouer.
    Alors oui, le jeu est bien, grand, complet , doublage de qualité (malgré une synchro labiale aux fraises).
    [Edit] optimisé depuis, ne pas tenir compte de ce paragraphe en 2021+ note réhaussée en fonction[/EDIT] Cependant, le portage PC est archi nul, le jeu est    Un univers original, un personnage féminin fort. Sur le papier, beaucoup de belles promesses, qui donnent envie d'y jouer.
    Alors oui, le jeu est bien, grand, complet , doublage de qualité (malgré une synchro labiale aux fraises).

    [Edit] optimisé depuis, ne pas tenir compte de ce paragraphe en 2021+ note réhaussée en fonction[/EDIT] Cependant, le portage PC est archi nul, le jeu est ULTRA mal optimisé => c'est la première fois que je rame autant sur un moteur qui a 3 ans ! C'est dommage, ça gâche tout. En me renseignant sur un bug de textures, je m’aperçois que le bug date d'il y a 3 ans, et qu'il était présent sur PS4.... Si ça n'est pas la promesse d'un portage au rabais ça !
    Et non, ce n'est pas une config insuffisante, tout tourne à merveille sur ma machine (y compris de la VR supersamplée) ; mais Horizon, graphismes à fond ou au mini, aucune différence. Je suis fluide à 80% de ma résolution nominale, du n'importe quoi.
    Ha oui, j'ai également attendu le patch 1.03 pour rédiger ces lignes, avec l'espoir d'une amélioration des perfs, mais non.

    Après plusieurs mois d'attente, j'ai décidé de re-sauter le pas. Et la, bonne surprise : le portage PC a été enfin optimisé, avec un framerate correspondant à son calibre graphique, une optimisation des shaders au lancement du jeu... bref, on peut dire maintenant que : oui, la version PC existe pour de bon. Et elle est jouable !

    J'ai pu faire le jeu en entier, je lui ai collé 48 heures de jeu, c'était un bon moment vidéoludique. L'histoire est sympa, on pourra déplorer une tristesse dans les combats, qui finissent par tous se ressembler (arsenal classique peu varié, et une fois que l'on a trouvé les points faibles des monstres, c'est un peu toujours la même rengaine). Heureusement, le jeu n'est pas trop long, juste bien calibré pour que ça ne tourne pas en rond.

    J'y retournerai volontiers un de ces 4 pour refaire l'histoire.    … Expand
  11. Ordnik
    Oct 31, 2021
    5
    The game is interesting. I love the musics and story. Graphics are meh because of weird antialiasing. Anyway, when it comes to bow combat, it is awfully terrible. I have never seen this bad combat in my entire life. I've been playing games for 10 years and this game has the worst combat of all. Arrow logic does not exist in this game, and there is something off with the aiming. WhileThe game is interesting. I love the musics and story. Graphics are meh because of weird antialiasing. Anyway, when it comes to bow combat, it is awfully terrible. I have never seen this bad combat in my entire life. I've been playing games for 10 years and this game has the worst combat of all. Arrow logic does not exist in this game, and there is something off with the aiming. While playing the whole game I thought about quiting the game, but I didn't because of the story and ambiance, music etc. I can't stand the combat in this game, it is really really terrible designed.… Expand
  12. JaRail
    Mar 3, 2021
    10
    HZD has some of the best story, writing, and world building I've experienced from this console generation. The side quests are rich in story/dialog. I want to do everything in this game because it's entertaining, not because I'm trying to grind for XP/items. There are always interesting mysteries to the world events and characters that keep you digging. For me, the payoff for learning theHZD has some of the best story, writing, and world building I've experienced from this console generation. The side quests are rich in story/dialog. I want to do everything in this game because it's entertaining, not because I'm trying to grind for XP/items. There are always interesting mysteries to the world events and characters that keep you digging. For me, the payoff for learning the lore was huge.

    I had some trouble with PC performance at launch but came back for a 2nd attempt in 2021. Some combination of new hardware and patches has resolved performance problems for me. Through the entire game, I had one major quest action sequence break. That required me to restart the game to progress.

    Overall, this ranks as a must play recommendation for me. I hope Sony releases Horizon Forbidden West on PC as well.    … Expand
  13. Tabbou
    Jul 8, 2021
    10
    Rien que pour l'ambiance
    Recommandé pour ceux qui ont un pc qui tienne le coup (voir configuration recommandée sur la page du jeu)
    On est plongé dans un monde post-apocalyptique, ça fait pas original mais là c'est vraiment bien géré : on y retrouve un mélange de peuples semi-primitifs avec des animaux-machines ultra-sophistiquées éparpillées dans le monde. Votre but sera tout d'abord    Rien que pour l'ambiance
    Recommandé pour ceux qui ont un pc qui tienne le coup (voir configuration recommandée sur la page du jeu)
    On est plongé dans un monde post-apocalyptique, ça fait pas original mais là c'est vraiment bien géré : on y retrouve un mélange de peuples semi-primitifs avec des animaux-machines ultra-sophistiquées éparpillées dans le monde.

    Votre but sera tout d'abord de découvrir d'où vous venez, puis comment la planète à été détruite, comment l'humanité à survécue etc... On est plongé dans l'inconnu mais petit à petit tout s'éclaircit, avec des informations supplémentaires non indispensables mais bien sympa pour ceux qui aiment collecter des indices à droite à gauche

    Passons à la critique :
    Les +
    -L'ambiance !
    -l'histoire
    -les ennemis type machines bien foutues et diversifiées, avec un peu de dextérité vos tirs serons + efficaces et causerons plus de dégats, chaque machine à des zones de points faibles en plus de certaines faiblesses "élémentaires"
    -la map, assez grande mais pas trop avec des zones où les ennemis sont présents bien identifiés, des points de sauvegarde et de déplacement rapides fréquents
    -les graphismes, si vous arrivez à faire tourner le jeu en HD
    -le DLC (inclut dans le jeu de base) qui apporte des armes bien fun, de l'équipement ainsi qu'une side-story

    Les -
    -Les shaders à charger à chaque lancement du jeu si l'on veut des temps de chargement plus rapides (perso ça prenait 20min à chaque fois)
    -les temps de chargement quand on fait des déplacements rapides entre 2 points éloignés de la map (idem, ça doit dépendre de la puissance de votre machine)
    -les armes, diversifiées mais peu nombreuse et pas assez personnalisables : une 10aine d'armes et de tenues à tout casser
    -les choix de dialogues n'ont aucune conséquence sur la suite

    Les + ou - ça dépend des points de vues
    -fin en suspend, on attend un second opus
    -pas de fanservice du tout    … Expand
  14. EmoGuyGamer
    Jun 6, 2021
    8
    Graphics - 8.5/10

    Sound / Music - 9/10

    Story - 8/10

    How likable is main character / characters - 8/10

    World design - 7.5/10

    Conclusion - 8
  15. 3lo2ya4ever
    Feb 20, 2022
    4
    GRAFICS 9/10
    GAMEPLAY 8.5/10
    MUSIC 7/10
    STORY 5/10
    CHARACTERS 1/10
    unfortunately this game could have been one of the GOTs with just a little bit of good writing
  16. zyllus
    Mar 16, 2022
    10
    This is one of the best games I have ever played. I was a little hesitant before playing the game as it mostly involves a bow and arrow for combat but I enjoyed the gameplay through and through. The story is enticing and keeps you wanting more and more by answering one question and putting up two more. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic future where the world is filled with machines asThis is one of the best games I have ever played. I was a little hesitant before playing the game as it mostly involves a bow and arrow for combat but I enjoyed the gameplay through and through. The story is enticing and keeps you wanting more and more by answering one question and putting up two more. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic future where the world is filled with machines as the wildlife. The game unfolds the story and kept me guessing and answered almost all my questions by the end of the game. Everything in this game was a breath of fresh air. The only thing that bugged me was that I couldn't command the machines to follow me or attack a particular enemy otherwise everything was fantastic. I highly recommend to play this game once completely and then go for the DLC as the weapons in the DLC are quite OP for the base game… Expand
  17. IdleSpace
    Nov 1, 2021
    6
    Типичный сони-экслюзив, который заглянул и на боярскую платформу.
    Если играли в фар край праймал - практически та же игра.
    Душно, скуный сюжет, однообразие игрового процесса, кривизна/простота практически всех игровых механик. Из плюсов: красивый мир, неплохой звук, игра побуждает использовать разную экипировку (единственная работающая механика).    Типичный сони-экслюзив, который заглянул и на боярскую платформу.
    Если играли в фар край праймал - практически та же игра.
    Душно, скуный сюжет, однообразие игрового процесса, кривизна/простота практически всех игровых механик.
    Из плюсов: красивый мир, неплохой звук, игра побуждает использовать разную экипировку (единственная работающая механика).
  18. Kilio
    Dec 13, 2022
    10
    Really amazing envirenment
    Wonderful missions
    Amazing combat with bow
    I reocmend this game to all people
  19. sugarnite
    Mar 13, 2022
    5
    Killing big robots in the open world is where I got all the fun. The problem is, you're usually encountering herds of small-medium robots which become a whack-fest in no time.

    Boss fights are just arrow-fests, so you don't get to sneak around and plan like you do in the open world. Movement and combat feels floaty and gameplay is pretty shallow. There's simply not much to do in the    Killing big robots in the open world is where I got all the fun. The problem is, you're usually encountering herds of small-medium robots which become a whack-fest in no time.

    Boss fights are just arrow-fests, so you don't get to sneak around and plan like you do in the open world.

    Movement and combat feels floaty and gameplay is pretty shallow. There's simply not much to do in the open world except kill robots and collect crafting items. Just like Far Cry.

    The thing is, Far Cry has things like vehicles and forts which add some layers to the world-traversal. This game really doesn't have much to keep my attention.    … Expand
  20. khangpro1112
    Dec 19, 2021
    10
    Highly Recommended : 10/10
    1. Graphics : GOOD
    2. Gameplay : GOOD
    Definitely worth a try !
  21. Stabi1ity
    Jan 30, 2022
    10
    Absolutely loves this game!
    The story, setting, vibe, combat and stealth mechanics - everything.
    The graphics are stunning, and it runs so smooth.
    To me, it compares to FarCry 3 / Skyrim - but does it even better IMO.
    I feel emerged in the story, the lore/back story is unfolding - love it!
    - Recommended.
  22. sVarus
    Feb 26, 2022
    9
    The PS4 version was great, but the PC version tops it again.

    I played the PC version about 1 year after it was released and it's just great. The game world is beautiful and creative. I also think it's good that you don't play a man for once (I'm a man), it doesn't happen that often. The only drawback is the German voice output because it is very asynchronous with lips, I've seen    The PS4 version was great, but the PC version tops it again.

    I played the PC version about 1 year after it was released and it's just great.
    The game world is beautiful and creative.
    I also think it's good that you don't play a man for once (I'm a man), it doesn't happen that often.

    The only drawback is the German voice output because it is very asynchronous with lips, I've seen something better that's why -1 point.

    What I would have liked to improve is that the spear rarely played such an un-motivating melee.    … Expand
  23. Animus_V0x
    Oct 31, 2022
    10
    I loved everything about the game. The visuals, level design, the plot (a little predictable for some part tho), the whole atmosphere of the world...
    Mixing pre-historical elements with high-tech seemed far-fetched but it all made sense in the end. Great main characters. The amount of lore is awesome. I was truly immersed in a new world and was very pleasantly surprised.
  24. XRayBlaster
    Sep 10, 2022
    10
    This is one the greatest games I have ever played. The story is absolutely incredible! I almost cried at the beginning. I highly recommend that you play this game.
  25. ACisGreatest
    Jun 4, 2021
    0
    I really tried to like it and it has some very good ideas, but at the same time it fell flat in almost everything. Robots were great, graphics very solid for 2017, but story was extremely meh. I feel like this game is extremely overrated. Even nude mod for Aloy (on PC) didn't make me care to go back, that's how boring this game feels. World is way too much packed together, you can hardlyI really tried to like it and it has some very good ideas, but at the same time it fell flat in almost everything. Robots were great, graphics very solid for 2017, but story was extremely meh. I feel like this game is extremely overrated. Even nude mod for Aloy (on PC) didn't make me care to go back, that's how boring this game feels. World is way too much packed together, you can hardly go anywhere and you are already in your waypoint. There's no great distances between places. Maybe second one will be better, time will tell, but i will never go back to play first one.… Expand
  26. edilsonj
    Aug 10, 2020
    3
    Guerrilla was much better off not having offended the players! Releasing this game without being ready is a serious offense. In RTX 2060 I'm having problems with textures that disappear and others that keep flashing. A really pig job, with a launch that should cost a maximum of 9 dollars if it was to release something so badly done. The question of Stutterings? Yes, it does. Not to mentionGuerrilla was much better off not having offended the players! Releasing this game without being ready is a serious offense. In RTX 2060 I'm having problems with textures that disappear and others that keep flashing. A really pig job, with a launch that should cost a maximum of 9 dollars if it was to release something so badly done. The question of Stutterings? Yes, it does. Not to mention the countless pop-in objects on the screen that are even comical.… Expand
  27. DexEngineer
    Aug 12, 2020
    3
    Amazing graphics. Great combat. Boring story and most characters. Amateurish voices which feels flat... lack of emotions. Oh... and constant crashing. I'm afraid now to start running since it crashed the game often.
  28. GEFFUNDEI
    Aug 10, 2020
    4
    All I have to say — optimization is really terrible. I think releasing Horizon in such condition is just a contempt of players. If you want to play this game, buy it on PS 4. But not on PC.
  29. Varileztra
    Aug 9, 2020
    4
    Bought it on steam and requested a refund after 23 minutes of "playtime". First took the **** 15 minutes to set "optimal settings" and then the cutscene ran somewhere between "System not responding" to 80 frames.
    Yea, **** that. Just another lazy port, where no optimization has been done. Avoid at all costs until patches have been roled out.
  30. InCuBuSX
    Aug 8, 2020
    8
    Great game but needs serious patching to run smoothly for all players. I hope the devs will do so soon.
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#27 Best PC Game of 2020
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 50 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 46 out of 50
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 50
  3. Negative: 0 out of 50
  1. GameGrin
    Jan 10, 2022
    100
    Horizon Zero Dawn truly expresses how videogames nowadays are an art form, if not only through its visuals and storytelling, then certainly through its expertly incorporated combat. A glee-filled experience through and through.
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  2. CD-Action
    Oct 15, 2020
    85
    I had tons of fun with the PC version of Horizon Zero Dawn. I appreciated the story, enjoyed exploring the vast, remarkable world crafted masterfully out of extremely diverse elements, and found defeating the largest mechanical beasts to be deeply satisfying every single time. Additionally, the Complete Edition features The Frozen Wilds expansion, which is not only large, but also visually stunning. [10/2020, p.56]
  3. DualShockers
    Aug 25, 2020
    85
    Even with its technological hangups, the PC port of Horizon Zero Dawn brings an experience wholly unlike anything else I've ever played.
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