A new Horizon game is likely years away following the 2022 release of Horizon Forbidden West and its 2023 DLC, Burning Shores. However, that doesn’t mean Horizon fans are left without any new content and lore to enjoy till the inevitable release of Horizon 3. On top of the upcoming LEGO Horizon Adventures video game releasing this holiday season, a new tabletop experience set around Horizon Forbidden West that fans won't want to miss out on will be released in May 2025, called Horizon Forbidden West: Seeds of Rebellion.
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Horizon Forbidden West: Seeds of Rebellion Explained
Designed by the United Kingdom-based tabletop game studio and publisher Steamforged Games, Seeds of Rebellion is an upcoming co-op, narrative-driven, tabletop game set in the world of Horizon. This is Steamforged’s second tabletop experience set in Horizon, with the company previously producing Horizon Zero Dawn: The Board Game in 2020. In that game, players would embody members of the Hunting Lodge to track and take down machines. Unlike the Horizon video games, players in both Horizon Zero Dawn: The Board Game and Seeds of Rebellion use tiles, cards, tokens, dice, and mini figures to play.
Horizon Zero Dawn: The Board Game was designed more as a game to just hunt and take down machines across its nine expansions, but Seeds of Rebellion introduces a whole new canon story to the world of Horizon. Set roughly six months before the beginning of Forbidden West, Seed of Rebellion has players embody a group of Tenakth Marshals who are sent to investigate a missing patrol squad and fight machines along the way. On their journey, the Marshals discover a rising rebellion against Chief Hekarro which may plunge the Forbidden West into chaos once more. Essentially, Seeds of Rebellion acts as a sort of prequel and later a concurrent side story to Aloy’s journey in Forbidden West.
Both Horizon Zero Dawn: The Board Game and Horizon Forbidden West: Seeds of Rebellion were funded by the Horizon community on Kickstarter.
The Allure of Seeds of Rebellion
Since Horizon Zero Dawn was first released back in 2017, many fans have long wanted to play in the world of Horizon with friends. While a multiplayer Horizon game is confirmed to be in development, this project is possibly years away from release. In the meantime, fans can gather a group of friends to play through a whole new Horizon campaign together for the first time with Seeds of Rebellion. The tabletop game can additionally serve as a way for people not typically interested in video games to be introduced to Horizon for the first time, possibly creating more fans of this post-apocalyptic world.
There’s more to offer from Seeds of Rebellion beyond fighting Tenakth rebels and machines. Players will journey to nearby tribes and towns and be able to interact with people and learn more about the cultures and people living in the Forbidden West. Further, Marshals will be able to solve mysteries at various settlements. Players can also tackle each machine or rebel encounter in multiple ways, such as setting elemental traps or pulling off stealth checks to avoid conflict altogether. Each choice made will impact the players’ narrative down the line, so Marshals will have to work together in order to make the best of their time in the Forbidden West.
Seeds of Rebellion's Miniature Machines
Possibly the most compelling aspect of Seeds of Rebellion is the set of miniature figures that come bundled with the game. In the core box, players will get four Marshal minis, nine Tenakth rebel minis, 17 machine minis, and huge Tremortusk and Slitherfang minis. Beyond just having fun playing with these miniatures, players could use them as simple display pieces or custom paint them similar to Warhammer 40K miniature sets. Each of Seeds of Rebellion’s five current expansions will include new gigantic miniatures as well, such as the Tide Expansion’s Tideripper miniature and the Sky Expansion’s Dreadwing miniature. Any Horizon Forbidden West fan will want to have these miniatures, let alone the Seeds of Rebellion game, in their Horizon collection.
Horizon Forbidden West
- Released
- February 18, 2022
WHERE TO PLAY
Join Aloy as she braves a majestic but dangerous new frontier that holds mysterious new threats. This Complete Edition allows you to enjoy the critically acclaimed Horizon Forbidden West on PC in its entirety with bonus content, including the Burning Shores story expansion that picks up after the main game.
Explore distant lands, fight bigger and more awe-inspiring machines, and encounter astonishing new tribes as you return to the far-future, post-apocalyptic world of Horizon.
The land is dying. Vicious storms and an unstoppable blight ravage the scattered remnants of humanity while fearsome new machines prowl their borders, and life on Earth is hurtling toward another extinction.
It's up to Aloy to uncover the secrets behind these threats and restore order and balance to the world. Along the way, she must reunite with old friends, forge alliances with warring new factions and unravel the legacy of the ancient past.
- ESRB
- T for Teen: Blood, Language, Use of Alcohol, Violence
- Developer(s)
- Guerrilla Games
- Publisher(s)
- Sony
- Engine
- Decima
- Franchise
- Horizon
- Platform(s)
- PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5
- How Long To Beat
- 29 Hours
- Metascore
- 88
- PS Plus Availability
- N/A
