LEGO Horizon Adventures review – brick and treat

Sony Interactive Entertainment is in an interesting position. With its usual triple-A blockbusters taking too much time and costing so much money, it’s hard to keep up with the demand from fans of its first-party franchises. You can’t make a new Horizon or God of War game within a couple of years, so what do you do? The answer, Sony has figured, is to work with a partner and diversify your franchises to reach a new audience. Following the smashing success of Astro Bot, LEGO Horizon Adventures looks like the next step for Sony in getting out of its costly comfort zone. The game retells the story of Horizon Zero Dawn in a family-friendly, LEGOfied manner. Like most LEGO games, Horizon Adventures has you building structures with LEGO blocks while having a smile on your face the entire time. It takes the serious world of Horizon and turns it on its head with self-aware writing and simple gameplay mechanics. In this roughly six-hour adventure, you’ll relive Horizon Zero Dawn with minor narrative changes. They don