Horizon Forbidden West's solid PC debut not enough to beat Zero Dawn

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Horizon Forbidden West's solid PC debut not enough to beat Zero Dawn
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Victoria developed a deep love for video games watching her brothers barrel their way through Goldeneye 007. She will unashamedly spout forth all sorts of niche Zelda lore to anyone who will listen (and even at times to those who won't), and makes the best pancakes you have ever seen.

Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition was released on PC last week, and has seen a respectable number of players flocking to partake in Aloy's latest outing.

The Horizon sequel and its Burning Shores DLC currently has a concurrent player peak of 40,462 on Steam - ahead of other big Sony games such as The Last of Us Part 1, which has had a peak of 36,496 concurrent players. Forbidden West player numbers still sit a touch behind its predecessor Zero Dawn, however. The first Horizon game, which came to Steam back in 2020, boasts a concurrent player peak of 56,557. Meanwhile, no Sony-published game is close to surpassing juggernaut Helldivers 2, which quickly becameHorizon Forbidden West PC vs PS5: Enhanced Features, Performance Tests + Image Quality Boosts!.

While there are several other titles rumoured to be making the jump from PlayStation to PC in the future, two that we know for certain to be coming areAs for Horizon's latest PC release, Digital Foundry took a closer look at Forbidden West's port earlier this month, saying its"got a lot going for it".

"Most importantly, it runs smoothly, without some of the consistency issues I saw in the launch versions of Marvel's Spider-Man or Ratchet and Clank - and general performance should satisfy users, especially if the default dynamic resolution scaling option is enabled," Alex Battaglia wrote after going hands on with

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