(You can see it’s in-game location marked on the map at the end of this blog post. ![]() It’s located just off the main road, but can be easy to miss. It’s one of the first landmarks you pass as the game leads you out of Nora lands and into Carja territory on the way to Meridian. Let’s start with one a little less obvious – Dead Horse Point. Image by Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment Dead Horse Point Let’s take a look at some of the places you can visit. So you, as Aloy, get to roam around some of the best landscapes in the world, in one of the best story-games ever written. And it just so happens that the geography of Horizon: Zero Dawn is set right here in Southern Utah! But – and this is the important part – even though the cultures and machines are strange and new, the geography of the world has changed very little in the thousand years after the mass extinction event. A world were machines created by this new, benevolent AI inhabit the same space as tribal peoples with semi-primitive weaponry. They completed their project – dubbed “Zero Dawn” – in about 2066, just before all life was wiped out.Īloy then lives in a distant future version of our world. Prior to the complete annihilation of all biomass however, an international team was able to create another, benevolent artificial intelligence to resurrect and foster life after this inevitable extinction event. Horizon: Zero Dawn is set in our world during the 31st century – some thousand years after a plague of AI weaponry destroyed all life on earth. Warning: The following contains heavy spoilers for Horizon: Zero Dawn. Image by Guerrilla Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment A Familiar World ![]() But before we get lost in her new world, we at the Lodge thought we’d take a moment to reminisce on one of the aspects of the last game, Zero Dawn, that made it such an instant classic – its unrivaled location. ![]() The new game, Horizon: Forbidden West, promises to take the main character, Aloy, to new territory, on an even bigger adventure. This month Guerrilla Games released its follow up to the critically-acclaimed game Horizon: Zero Dawn.
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