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Horizon Journey

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31%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:humor
Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, story
37% User Score Based on 35 reviews

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Horizon Journey is a single player and multiplayer open world shooter game with a horror theme. It was developed by REIN and was released on January 30, 2026. It received negative reviews from players.

Embark on an epic adventure to Mars in Horizon Journey, an open-world survival game that blends colonization, terraforming, and exploration in both single-player and multiplayer co-op modes. Set in the year 2053, you are part of the 17th Endeavor mission, tasked with the monumental challenge of making Mars a new home for humanity. Features:Authentic Martian Landscape: Experience Mars like never…

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37%Audience ScoreBased on 35 reviews
humor1 positive mentions
graphics3 negative mentions
  • The game has strong potential with a compelling survival and base-building concept that some players find promising.
  • Developers are actively engaging with the community, providing frequent updates and showing openness to feedback.
  • Early access price point is low, enabling players to support development and watch the game grow over time.
  • The game suffers from numerous technical issues including bugs, crashes, clunky controls, and poor vehicle physics which impact gameplay significantly.
  • Graphical fidelity and UI are notably worse than promotional materials, with issues such as laggy, disorienting menus, poor inventory management, and lack of polish.
  • Core gameplay mechanics such as resource gathering, crafting, movement, and survival systems feel underdeveloped, frustrating many players and hindering progression.

  • graphics

    6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    33% positive mentions, 17% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions

    Users consistently report that the graphics are significantly worse than those shown in trailers and screenshots, with low texture quality and basic visuals even when settings are maxed out. Overall, the graphics are seen as disappointing and below expectations.

    • “All graphics settings set to highest settings.”
    • “The graphics are okay.”
    • “The graphics are a joke compared to the trailer.”
    • “The graphics looked bad, nothing like the video or screenshots.”
    • “Following that, you look at very basic graphics with low texture quality.”

  • story

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 25% neutral mentions, 75% negative mentions

    The story and quest progression face issues such as critical resource shortages and mission-blocking bugs, leading to frustration and stalled advancement. The tutorial focuses heavily on water but neglects food, impacting survival. Overall, the narrative experience is hampered by technical problems and unbalanced quest design.

    • “The tutorial quest line gets you making water quickly, but not food... you are going to die.”
    • “I, for example, was unable to progress past the basic first quests to repair/use the rover due to a lack of iron.”
    • “Once you start navigating around the quests, you'll notice that even while running you feel like you're in knee-deep mud.”

  • gameplay

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    33% positive mentions, -33% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The gameplay is reminiscent of Planet Crafter with numerous tweaks to building mechanics and features like the rover, which adds a fresh element. However, it may require a significant time investment to fully understand and appreciate its mechanics.

    • “It is the same type of game as Planet Crafter with a lot of tweaks to building and some other game mechanics including the rover, which is a sick idea.”
    • “If you do not wish to be a gameplay tester then avoid this title for now.”
    • “It is the same type of game as Planet Crafter with a lot of tweaks to building and some other game mechanics including the rover which is a sick idea.”
    • “Have a feeling I will need to give it more time and get into the mechanics before I can give it a firm yes or no.”

  • music

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Users criticize the game's music for being overly loud and unpleasant, with volume settings ignored in the new game flow, resulting in music dominating the audio experience.

    • “True to the usual form of early access open world survival games, the default sensitivity was insanely high (like, we're talking move the mouse 1mm and do a 1080° spin) and the awful music is set to max volume (a setting that is completely ignored in the new game flow).”
    • “Only thing you hear is music.”

  • stability

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game experiences noticeable bugs and glitches, particularly with storage interactions, leading to confusion and unstable gameplay elements.

    • “There are bugs and glitches which is expected.”
    • “I tried to use storage in the buggy and I don't even know what I was interacting with but it wasn't storage.”

  • humor

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The humor in the game is spontaneous and arises from unexpected, sometimes chaotic moments that players find amusing despite occasional frustrations.

  • optimization

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Optimization is decent, with acceptable performance seen in the starter area on a high-end RTX 5080 GPU.

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Horizon Journey is a open world shooter game with horror theme. Common tags for Horizon Journey include first-person, driving, indie, exploration, crafting and others.

Horizon Journey is available on PC and Windows.

Horizon Journey was released on January 30, 2026.

Horizon Journey was developed by REIN.

Horizon Journey has received negative reviews from players. Most players liked Horizon Journey for its humor but disliked it for its graphics.

Horizon Journey is a single player game with multiplayer and local co-op support.

Similar games include Occupy Mars: The Game, HumanitZ, Eden Crafters, Osiris: New Dawn, Mist Survival and others.