Horizon Zero Dawn is a 2017 action role-playing game developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It is the first game of the Horizon video game series. The plot follows Aloy, a young hunter in a world overrun by machines, who sets out to uncover her past. Wikipedia
Research exclusive to this game
Nae, Andrei. “Beyond cultural identity: a critique of Horizon: zero dawn as an entrepreneurial ecosystem simulator.” Postmodern Openings 11, no. 3 (2020): 269-277.
Swain, Natalie J. “Machina ex Dea, Dea ex Machina: Gaia/GAIA/All-Mother and Lugones’ “World”—Traveling in Horizon Zero Dawn (2017).” Games and culture 20, no. 1 (2025): 59-76.
Woolbright, Lauren. “Ecofeminism and gaia theory in Horizon Zero Dawn.” Trace Journal 2 (2018).
Research that includes this game in its sample
Allen, Melissa L. ““How is it that Someone Like You: paragon, Damn Near Saint; Could Love this World so Damn Much but No One in It?”: Horizon Zero Dawn’s Aloy and the Disruption of Hetero-Amatonormative Benevolent Sexism in Female-led Games.” Games and Culture 19, no. 7 (2024): 851-871.
Condis, Megan. “Sorry, wrong apocalypse: Horizon Zero Dawn, Heaven’s Vault, and the ecocritical videogame.” Game Studies 20, no. 3 (2020).
Willumsen, Ea Christina. “Is My Avatar MY Avatar? Character Autonomy and Automated Avatar Actions in Digital Games.” In DiGRA Conference. 2018.