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Horizon Forbidden West Guide

The post-apocalypse horizon Horizon Forbidden West guide is a complete game walkthrough and the best tips to get started, contains all the finds and secrets. Descriptions of all mechanics, character development, exploration and description of all achievements and side quests.

Last update: 30 April 2024

This guide to Horizon Forbidden West contains a complete set of information to help you learn the most important gameplay mechanics, find answers to frequently asked questions, complete all available quests, complete all side activities, and discover secrets and collectibles. With our guide, you will be able to complete Horizon Forbidden West in 100%.

• Horizon Forbidden West: Guide content
• Horizon Forbidden West: Tips and tricks
• Horizon Forbidden West: Basics
• Horizon Forbidden West: FAQ
• Horizon Forbidden West: Best skills
• Horizon Forbidden West: All bosses
• Horizon Forbidden West: All main quests
• Horizon Forbidden West: All side quests
• Horizon Forbidden West: All errands
• Horizon Forbidden West: All companion quests
• Horizon Forbidden West: World atlas
• Horizon Forbidden West: All secrets and collectibles
• Horizon Forbidden West: System requirements
• Horizon Forbidden West: Trophies, achievements
• Horizon Forbidden West: Game's length

Horizon Forbidden West: Guide content

The first few pages focus on the basics. There you will find a beginner's guide as well as pages with numerous tips for combat, stealth, exploration, developing Aloy and her equipment, managing the base, mounts, crafting, unlocking the best skills, using the best weapons and dealing with different types of machines. The FAQ chapter with solutions to common problems focuses on similar topics. You can learn, among other things, how to use the fast travel mechanic, how to override machines, how to get XP and money, how to heal, how to replenish ammo, how to unlock diving equipment, how to get your first weapons, or how to gain skill points.

Our guide also has a detailed walkthrough. It is divided into descriptions of all main quests (including the ending) as well as descriptions of side quests and jobs. In a separate mini-chapter, we have also prepared a list of the boss fights with strategies on how to defeat each elite machine.

Another larger section is the world atlas, which includes descriptions of the game's major optional activities. These include hunting areas, arena battles, Machine Strike mini-game, Tallnecks climbing, and Cauldrons walkthorughs. We have also prepared a chapter focusing on secrets and collectibles. It includes information on Relic Ruins, Black Boxes, Survey Drones, Lenses , and Vista Points, among others.

The main chapters of the Horizon Forbidden West guide are supplemented by a number of smaller ones. These include a trophy guide with details on how to get the platinum trophy, as well as pages on controls, hardware requirements and technical aspects, upgrading the PS4 version to the PS5 version, and information on how long is the game.

Horizon Forbidden West: Tips and tricks

1. Collect as much loot as possible. Some things will not be useful to you until later or you can sell them. You can move items from a full inventory to a stash.
2. Scan the area with focus. It can detect, e.g. loot, interactive objects, edges for climbing or enemies. Focus has unlimited use.
3. Familiarize yourself with the strengths and weaknesses of the machines. By scanning your enemies you can, for example, see their weak points or learn that they are less resistant to certain types of elements.
4. Try stealth attacks. These are especially useful if you are dealing with opponents stronger than Aloy or you want to avoid alerting the entire area. You can use, e.g. stealth attacks.
5. Explore the regions carefully. Climbing the Tallnecks can reveal the surroundings. However, you will still need to check all the question marks added to the map - they can mark all sorts of interesting things.
6. Use dodges during combat. This is especially important when facing opponents who can charge at you or use ranged attacks.
7. Collect as many skill points as possible. Use them to unlock new skills from up to 6 skill trees. You can get skill points by leveling Aloy up and completing quests.

You can find more information on this topic on a separate page: Tips and tricks.

Horizon Forbidden West: Basics

1. Character progression
2. Machines
3. Exploration
4. Difficulty levels
5. Base
6. Combat and stealth
7. Traders
8. States / Status effects
9. Mounts
10. Crafting and upgrading equipment
11. Ranged Weapons
12. Recommended weapon list
13. Tools and Gadgets
14. Machines
15. Companions

Horizon Forbidden West: FAQ

World and game info:

1. Are there any important choices in the game?
2. Do I need to know the previous games?
3. Can you save the game?
4. Are there romances in the game?
5. How to make and spend money?
6. How to get the Widemaw Tusk?
7. How big is the game world?
8. What are Jobs?
9. How to change the time of day?
10. Why is a quest on hold?
11. Is there Premium Adventure?

Combat:

1. How do you get your first weapons?
2. Are there firearms?
3. How to replenish ammunition?
4. How to use a weapon technique?
5. How to restore weapon stamina?
6. How to throw rocks?
7. How does slowing down time work?

Exploration:

1. How to use fast travel?
2. How to dominate a Charger?
3. How to get a diving mask?
4. What are the Metal Flowers?
5. Are valuables useful?
6. How to hunt wild animals?
7. Where to spend hunting medals?
8. How to fish?

Character and her statistics:

1. How to gain experience quickly?
2. How to earn skill points?
3. How to change Aloy's appearance?
4. How to heal?
5. How to gain Valor?

Horizon Forbidden West: Best skills

1. Skill trees
2. Hunter
3. Warrior
4. Trapper
5. Survivor
6. Machine Master

Horizon Forbidden West: All bosses

1. Slitherfang
2. Grudda
3. Grimhorn
4. Tremortusk
5. Falopruj
6. Dreadwing
7. Apex Thunderjaw
8. Slaughterspine
9. Regalla
10. Erik
11. Specter Prime

Horizon Forbidden West: All main quests

1. Reach for the Stars
2. The Point of the Lance
3. To the Brink
4. The Embassy
5. Death's Door
6. The Dying Lands
7. The Eye of the Earth
8. The Broken Sky
9. The Kulrut
10. Cradle of Echoes
11. The Sea of Sands
12. Seeds of the Past
13. Faro's Tomb
14. GEMINI
15. All That Remains
16. The Wings of the Ten
17. Singularity

Horizon Forbidden West: All side quests

1. Deep Trouble
2. The Twilight Path
3. The Bristlebacks
4. Shadow from the Past
5. Shadow in the West
6. The Burning Blooms
7. The Deluge
8. The Roots That Bind
9. A Tribe Apart
10. Thirst for the Hunt
11. The Promontory
12. A Soldier's March
13. Blood for Blood

Horizon Forbidden West: All errands

1. Learning Machine Strike
2. A Dash of Courage
3. The Bigger Boom
4. Signals of the Sun
5. The Taste of Victory
6. The Oldgrowth
7. Call and Response

Horizon Forbidden West: All companion quests

1. The Second Verse, Zo's quest
2. What Was Lost, Kotallo's quest
3. Forbidden Legacy - Alva's quest

Horizon Forbidden West: World atlas

Hunting grounds:

1. List of hunting grounds
2. The Daunt
3. Plainsong
4. The Raintrace
5. Sheerside Mountains

Salvage contracts:

1. List of salvage contracts
2. Barren Light
3. Greenswell
4. Stillsands

Cinnabar Sands:

1. Rebel camps and outposts
2. Tallneck
3. Cauldron Mu

The Stillsands:

1. Tallneck
2. Rebel camps and outposts

Salt Bite:

1. Rebel camps and outposts
2. Tallneck
3. Cauldron IOTA

The Bulwark:

1. Tallneck
2. Rebel camps and outposts
3. Cauldron: CHI
4. Cauldron KAPPA

The Shining Wastes:

1. Rebel camps and outposts
2. Tallneck

Landfall:

1. Tallneck

Horizon Forbidden West: All secrets and collectibles

1. How to look for collectibles?
2. Survey drones
3. Black Boxes
4. Sunken Caverns
5. War Totems
6. Vista Points locations
7. Melee Pits
8. Gauntlet Run
9. The Arena

Relic ruins - Ornaments:

1. All ornaments
2. Let's Get This Started!
3. Weekend Getaway
4. A Church? Really?
5. Emergency Pit Stop
6. The Bill
7. Golden Toucans
8. Stanfort Days
9. Gizmo

Lenses:

1. How to reach?
2. List of lenses

Horizon Forbidden West: System requirements

1. Average performance: 720p, 30 fps,
2. Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4GB or AMD Radeon RX 5500XT 4GB,
3. Processor: Intel Core i3-8100 or AMD Ryzen 3 1300X,
4. RAM: 16GB,
5. Operating system: Windows 10 64-bit (version 1909 or later),
6. Disk space: 150 GB on SSD.

Read more about the requirements and performance mode on the page in our guide: System requirements.

Horizon Forbidden West: Trophies, achievements

In the latest installment of Horizon, you can get 80 trophies. All of them, along with descriptions and commentary are on a separate page in our guide: All trophies, achievements.

Horizon Forbidden West: Game's length

Horizon Forbidden West is a massive game. In our guide you'll find the Game length page, where we've included all the information regarding gameplay time, taking into account whether you only want to do the main story or whether you'll be tempted to explore the game's expansive world.

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