Horizon Zero Dawn: Liberation by Anne Toole and Ben Maccaw
Art by Elmer Damaso

(Titan Comics, 2022)

Reviewed by John Dodd

(Minor spoilers for the video game Horizon Zero Dawn.)

Novels based on video games fall into two different categories for me, the ones that give us something that we were utterly unaware of, and those that tell a story that expands on something we already knew.

I love the lore of games, particularly in video games where the temptation must surely be to paper over the cracks in the lore with more action and hope that no one notices. The more that time goes on, the more that games designers realise that many are just like me, they want the story, they want all the things that go with it, they want to know everything.

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