In 2017, Horizon Zero Dawn crafted one of the most imaginative and well-realized post-apocalyptic settings we’ve ever seen in a game. Rather than putting players in a dreary, barren world – which is very much the norm in the genre – Guerrilla’s open world action RPG transported us to a lush, vibrant, overgrown world that was centuries past the point where it had first died. And best of all, it populated that world with mechanical monstrosities.

Those machines were very much the star of the show, and of course, the primary attraction for most who played the game, and that is very much going to be the case in the upcoming sequel Horizon Forbidden West as well. In preparation of its imminent launch though, here, we’re going talk about those machines- more specifically, about how they came into existence in the Horizon universe, and eventually, how they took over.