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Games with combat like Horizon Zero Dawn

Looking for the same combat feel as Horizon Zero Dawn? Below is a starting lineup of games whose moment-to-moment fighting rhythm, weight, and tempo sit in the same lineage — and the interactive graph above is already tuned to that lens so you can keep tracing combat DNA from any node. (open-world action RPGs with creature hunting.)

Games with combat like Horizon Zero Dawn

  • Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds cover
    Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds
    2017

    The Frozen Wilds contains additional content for Horizon Zero Dawn, including new storylines, characters and experiences in a beautiful but unforgiving new area.

  • Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered cover
    Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered
    2024

    Experience the critically acclaimed Horizon Zero Dawn with stunning new visuals and upgraded features. In a far future where colossal machines roam the Earth, pockets of humanity survive in unique tribes among the lush, overgrown ruins of our long-lost civilization.

  • Horizon Forbidden West cover
    Horizon Forbidden West
    2022

    Horizon Forbidden West continues Aloy’s story as she moves west to a far-future America to brave a majestic, but dangerous frontier where she’ll face awe-inspiring machines and mysterious new threats.

  • Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores cover
    Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores
    2023

    Travel beyond the Forbidden West as Aloy’s story continues. Encounter new machines and a compelling new story. South of the Tenakth Clan Lands, millennia of volcanic eruptions and violent seismic activity have carved the ruins of Los Angeles into a treacherous archipelago. Exper

  • LEGO Horizon Adventures cover
    LEGO Horizon Adventures
    2024

    LEGO Horizon Adventures is an action-adventure game developed by Guerrilla Games and Studio Gobo, blending the Horizon series setting with LEGO-style visuals and humour. Players follow a retelling of Aloy’s story as she travels across a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by machine

  • Horizon Call of the Mountain cover
    Horizon Call of the Mountain
    2023

    Horizon Call of the Mountain, created for PlayStation’s Next-Gen VR hardware, is an upcoming brand-new adventure in the world of Horizon. Embrace a new level of immersion in a unique experience, designed to push hardware technology, innovation, and gameplay.

  • Horizon Hunters Gathering cover
    Horizon Hunters Gathering

    Hunt deadly machines in tactical co-op action and adapt your Hunter for intense missions.

  • Horizon Steel Frontiers cover
    Horizon Steel Frontiers

    The first MMORPG in the Horizon universe. A desperate adventure for survival in a world full of numerous threats.

  • LEGO Horizon Adventures: Digital Deluxe Edition Content cover
    LEGO Horizon Adventures: Digital Deluxe Edition Content
    2024

    An addon for LEGO Horizon Adventures, adding the content of the Digital Deluxe Edition to the game.

  • LEGO Horizon Adventure: Shield Weaver Outfit cover
    LEGO Horizon Adventure: Shield Weaver Outfit
    2024

    An outfit for LEGO Horizon Adventure based on the Horizon Zero Dawn outfit of the same name.

  • Horizon Forbidden West: Major Update 1.14 cover
    Horizon Forbidden West: Major Update 1.14
    2022

    This update includes the much-requested New Game+ feature and Ultra Hard mode for those who want to challenge themselves further, but also a host of quality-of-life features: the transmog feature allows players to easily customize the cosmetics of their equipped outfit to look li

  • Uncharted 4: A Thief's End cover
    Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
    2016

    Several years after his last adventure, retired fortune hunter, Nathan Drake, is forced back into the world of thieves. With the stakes much more personal, Drake embarks on a globe-trotting journey in pursuit of a historical conspiracy behind a fabled pirate treasure. His greates

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About Horizon Zero Dawn

Welcome to a vibrant world rich with the beauty of nature – but inhabited by awe-inspiring, highly advanced machines. As a young machine hunter named Aloy, you must unravel the mysteries of this world and find your own destiny.

FAQ

What games have combat similar to Horizon Zero Dawn?
Games with combat similar to Horizon Zero Dawn share its tempo, feedback, and the way moves chain together. The graph above starts you on the closest matches — pick any node to keep going.
Why does combat in Horizon Zero Dawn feel distinctive?
Horizon Zero Dawn's combat rests on a specific mix of input timing, animation commitment, and reward loop. The lens above surfaces games that hit the same nerve, regardless of genre or studio.

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