Horizon Forbidden West Budget Reportedly Exceeded $100M, Most Expensive Media Production In The Netherlands

by Muhammad Ali Bari

The development budget for Horizon Forbidden West reportedly exceeded $100 million, making it the most expensive media production in the Netherlands.

According to the trivia section for Horizon Forbidden West on IMDB, the game was developed with a budget of over 110 million Euros (approximately 118 million US Dollars), making it the most expensive media ever produced in the Netherlands.

Horizon forbidden west budget

It’s tough to say whether the information stated on the IMDB trivia page is accurate, therefore we encourage our readers to take it with a grain of salt. Sony has yet to make an official statement regarding Horizon Forbidden West’s overall development and marketing cost.

The game is among the latest additions to the PS Plus Extra and Premium catalog. The new lineup will be available to subscribers starting from Tuesday, February 21, 2023. In addition to Horizon Forbidden West, the list includes major third-party titles such as Scarlet Nexus, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, and more.

Horizon Forbidden West is a 2022 action role-playing game developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The game, which is a follow-up to 2017’s Horizon Zero Dawn, is set in a post-apocalyptic version of the Western United States that is recovering from an extinction event brought on by a rogue robot swarm. With ranged and melee weapons, the player can fight hostile machine creatures in the open world while completing quests.

Players assume control of Aloy, a hunter in a world populated by dangerous, animalistic machines. She explores the mysterious Forbidden West, a post-apocalyptic version of the Western United States that includes the states of California, Nevada, and Utah. The world map is larger than the one featured in the previous game, Horizon Zero Dawn. New underwater discoveries, improvements to combat using the Valor Surge system, free-form climbing, and tools like the Shieldwing, Focus Scanner, Diving Mask, and Pullcaster have all brought significant improvements to exploration.

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