Horizon Zero Dawn™ Remastered
Last updated: 2025-03-20
- Significantly improved, modern visuals enhance experience
- Captivating story and immersive open-world environment
- Rewarding, strategic combat system with unique machines
- Unnecessary remaster with minimal gameplay improvements
- Frequent crashes and various technical issues reported
- Significant audio issues and missing sound elements
- Reviews
(sample size) - 2000
- Helpful reviews
- 72%
- Unhelpful reviews
- 22%
- Protest reviews
- 6%
- 84%Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
- 16%Helpful reviews with negative sentiment
- Positive points
- 3012
- Negative points
- 1584
- Gameplay points
- 153
- Perf. points
- 402
- Rec. points
- 1037
- Misc points
- 162
| Point | Description | Importance |
|---|---|---|
| Significantly improved, modern visuals | The remaster significantly enhances the game's visuals, bringing them closer to the level of *Forbidden West*. This includes improved textures, lighting, character models, and animations, resulting in a more immersive and visually stunning experience. The improvements are so significant that the game feels fresh and modern, even for those familiar with the original. | 99% |
| Captivating story, immersive world | The game features a captivating story, immersive world-building, and engaging gameplay mechanics. The world is vast and detailed, with diverse biomes and interesting lore. The combat system is fun and rewarding, and the characters are well-developed and memorable, creating a truly immersive and enjoyable experience. | 49% |
| Enjoyable, addictive gameplay loop | The game is enjoyable and addictive, with solid mechanics and a fun gameplay loop. Many reviewers noted that they replayed the game multiple times, indicating a high level of satisfaction with the core gameplay experience. The game is also praised for its accessibility and lack of overly political content. | 18% |
| Fantastic story, great characters | The game is a fantastic experience, with a rich and engaging story and well-developed characters. The remaster brings the game to the same audiovisual level as its successor, *Horizon Forbidden West*, noticeably improving the visual quality. Many reviewers expressed their love for the game and its protagonist, Aloy. | 11% |
| Rewarding, strategic combat system | The combat system is a blend of precision and strategy, offering a diverse range of tools and approaches for defeating enemies. The game emphasizes a hunter-like approach, requiring players to strategically plan and utilize their resources. The combat is rewarding and appropriately challenging, with a good amount of depth and variety. | 11% |
| Worthwhile, fairly priced upgrade | The upgrade is available for a fair price, especially for owners of the original game. The visual upgrade is worth the price, and the upgrade includes more settings and quality of life improvements. The reviewer considers the upgrade to be worthwhile, even though it may not have been highly anticipated. | 8% |
| Unique machines, satisfying combat | The game features unique and gripping enemy robot designs and environments. Utilizing Aloy's arsenal of weapons, traps, and stealth tactics against the awe-inspiring machines is incredibly satisfying. The game encourages targeting the weak points of machines instead of blindly attacking. | 7% |
| Graphics surpass Forbidden West | The game looks substantially better than *Horizon Forbidden West* at 4K DLSS Quality with the newest DLSS dll file and maxed settings. The graphics and gameplay are better than *Horizon Forbidden West*. The implemented technologies closely resemble those of *Horizon Forbidden West*, enhancing the visual experience. | 5% |
| Improved character models, animations | Character models no longer look like wax figures, with improved skin texture and more natural-looking hair. Facial animations are now much more realistic, and the character models have a much higher level of detail. The character models have been updated to a higher quality. | 4% |
| Realistic, believable characters | The characters act like real people. The characters are nuanced, with no one being purely good or evil. The characters are nice. | 3% |
| Enhanced, vibrant landscapes | The brighter colors and prettier landscapes enhance the experience. The setting is beautiful. The landscapes are sublime. | 3% |