Even though I've put hundreds of hours into the Horizon series' post-apocalyptic open worlds, and many times that across my favorite online games, the prospect of turning Horizon into a series I play alongside friends always made me sceptical. With Horizon Hunters Gathering, I am so in – whether I like it or not.
Don't get me wrong, Horizon Hunters Gathering is very clearly just a shameless take on Monster Hunter Wilds and the rest of that iconic monster battling RPG, but in the Horizon universe instead. Even so, it's not a genre with a lot of competition (and yes, I did actually quite like Dauntless while it lasted), and Horizon already has enough crossover design-wise with Monster Hunter to make the genre feel like a natural fit – this is a format far from having to be crowbarred in to fit alongside the rest of Horizon.
