Horizon Forbidden West Guide - IGN (2024)

Complete Horizon Forbidden West Guide and Walkthrough

Tips, Tricks, and Strategies for Getting Started

In a world with so much to do and explore, it’s easy for helpful features and handy tips to slip through the cracks and go unexplained. So whether it’s how to unlock powerful early-game weapons, how to take full advantage of the Mount system to receive free resources, or tips that make tracking downcollectiblesmuch easier, our comprehensive guides below will break down everything you need to know about Horizon Forbidden West.

• Beginner's Guide - Basics and Features
  • Difficulty Settings - Explorer or Guided
• Things to Do First in Horizon Forbidden West
• Things Horizon Forbidden West Doesn't Tell You
• Best Skills to Unlock in Horizon Forbidden West - Skill Tree Guide
• 100+ Essential Tips and Tricks

Full Main Quest Walkthrough

IGN's Horizon Forbidden West walkthrough and strategy guide will lead you through every Main Quest, in addition to detailingtips, tricks, and strategies for defeating every major machine, as well as finding thelocation of every last CollectibleandDatapointthat you can find throughout the main story.

• Walkthrough
  • Reach For The Stars
  • The Point of the Lance

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• All Flashpoint Consequences and Major Choices
• All Security Door Codes

Side Quests and Activities

When first jumping into Horizon Forbidden West, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the significant size of the map and the sheer amount of Quests and Activities to complete. Whether it's taking on Cauldrons to learn and unlock all-new machine overrides and mounts, taking on Side Quests and Errands for powerful free weapons, or even tackling some of the game's most intuitive and fun activities, we've you covered in our guides below.

• Side Quests
• Errands
• Activities
• Tallnecks
• Hunting Grounds
• Melee Pits
• Cauldrons
• Machine Strike Guide and Tips

Collectibles and Datapoints

IGN's Horizon Forbidden West guide hasthe locationsfor every Collectible in the game, including Relic Ruin Ornaments, Vista Points, Black Boxes, Signal Lenses, War Totems, and even Survey Drones. In addition, you'll also find the locations of all Datapoints, which are logs that often detail stories from the Old Ones.

• Collectibles
• Datapoints
  • Hologram Datapoints
  • Text Datapoints - Quests
  • Text Datapoints - Side Quests
  • Scanned Glyphs
  • Relic Ruin Datapoints

Weapons and Outfits (Armors)

Looking to find the location of all Legendary Weapons and outfits or want to score yourself a free weapon? Look no further than our Weapon and armor guides below:

• All Weapons in Horizon Forbidden West
  • Spears
  • Hunter Bows
  • Warrior Bows
  • Sharpshot Bows
  • Blastslings
  • Shredder Gauntlets
  • Spike Throwers
  • Tripcasters
  • Ropecasters
  • Boltblasters
• All Outfits and Armor in Horizon Forbidden West
  • Legendary Outfits

Interactive Map

With plenty to do and explore in Horizon Forbidden West, why not check out our comprehensive Interactive Map that details everything from Collectible and Datapoint locations, Activities and Cauldron guides, all free weapon and outfit caches, as well as the loot found behind Firegleam and Metal Flowers. For even more details, be sure to see our map link below.

• Horizon Forbidden West Interactive Map

How-To Guides

From unlocking and using Valor Surges, clearing Red Crystal Growths and Metal Flowers, or applying Face Paints and Outfit Dyes, we have you covered in our detailed How-To Guides below.

• How-To Guides
• How to Climb The Shining Wastes Tallneck
• How to Unlock and Use Valor Surges
• How to Claim Your Pre-Order and Deluxe Content
• How to Fast Travel and Change the Time of Day
• How to Destroy Red Anomalous Crystal Growths (Firegleam)
• Blocked Paths - How to Unlock All Tools
• How to Breathe Underwater
• How to Override and Mount Machines
• How to Create Jobs and Get Upgrade Parts Quickly
• How to Use Face Paints - All Face Paints
• Dyes Guide: How to Get Dyes and Dye Your Outfits

All Machines, Overrides, Mounts, Strategies, and More

Whether you're chasing which machines can be overridden and mounted, or wondering what key upgrade components and resource loot a particular machine drops, we have you covered in our detailed Machine strategy guides that include everything you need to know about the machines in Horizon Forbidden West.

• All Mounts and Machine Overrides
• Machines
  • Acquisition Machines
  • Combat Machines
  • Recon Machines
  • Transport Machines

Settlements and Merchants

Curious as to what's available from every Settlement and Merchant in Horizon Forbidden West? See our helpful guide below for all the details.

• Settlements and Merchants

Burning Shores DLC

The Horizon Forbidden West Burning Shores DLC sees Aloy travel to the untamed wilds of the Burning Shores to track down the rogue Zenith, Walter Londra. In addition to providing the next chapter in Aloy's story, this expansion features new machines to defeat, new quests to complete, and more! Click the links below to read our various Burning Shores guides!

• How to Start the Burning Shores DLC
• Burning Shores Walkthrough
• Side Quests
• Collectibles
• All New Machines in Burning Shores
• All Legendary Weapons and Outfits in Burning Shores
• How-To Guides
• Cauldron: THETA
• Burning Shores Trophy Guide