LEGO Horizon Adventures from developers Guerrilla Games and Studio Gobo aims to walk an interesting balance between bringing a powerhouse franchise to

It's an odd experiment, but charming humor and engaging gameplay make this blocky parody of Aloy's story a successful one, too

Playing (with) Lego doesn’t have to be pure escapism. In telling Horizon’s story of environmental collapse and capitalism gone wild, Lego Horizon Adventures puts a layer of kid-friendly plastic building block abstraction between the concepts and the increasingly inevitable reality. And that makes it not only manageable, but also shareable.