LEGO Horizon Adventures is a kind of loose retelling of Horizon Zero Dawn, the 2017 PS4 open-world RPG, in a colorful, lighthearted LEGO world. It maintains the characters from the main series—Ashly Burch even reprises her role as main character Aloy—but the LEGO spin gives the whole experience a far more casual and family-friend vibe that ensures it’s accessible to all. Expect plenty of goofy humor and some abbreviated plot points as the game aims to keep you laughing and playing rather than watching cutscenes or reading dialogue.
Unsurprisingly, you don’t exclusively control Aloy this time around. Instead, like many LEGO games before it, LEGO Horizon Adventures allows you to unlock and play as a wider selection of characters, such as Varl, Rost, and Teersa. You can even equip various cosmetics to further customize your playtime, including costumes based on other beloved PlayStation characters.
Speaking of customization, you can also rearrange various things back at the central hub of Mother’s Heart—an iconic returning location from Horizon Zero Dawn. In an effort to make things genuinely feel like you’re inhabiting a LEGO world, you can mix and match things all across Mother’s Heart to make it really feel like your own creation.