Horizon Forbidden West: The Story Up To Cradle of Echoes — Spoiler-Free Recap

Where did you stop?

OR LET STEAM REMEMBER FOR YOU

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Paste your Steam profile — we read which story milestones you've unlocked and drop you on the right chapter. Never past your real progress, and nothing is stored.

Needs Steam privacy “Game details” set to Public.These are PC shortcuts — on console, the chapter walk above does the same job.

THE ROAD AHEAD IS HIDDENlength unknown — as it should be

the recap only covers the story up to your save point — it cannot spoil what it never sees

Where you stand

Previously, on Horizon Forbidden West…

You're Aloy, a hunter trying to rebuild GAIA, the AI that keeps the Earth alive, before the dying world collapses. You just tried to trap the rogue function HEPHAESTUS in a dead Cauldron — and it went wrong.

- WHERE: the Cauldron, in the aftermath of Far Zenith's ambush - QUEST: "Cradle of Echoes" — Far Zenith struck, Varl was killed, Beta was taken, and their leader Gerard stole GAIA

RIGHT NOW: Regroup after Tilda's rescue and figure out how to strike back at Far Zenith.

reveals exactly one chapter ahead — never how many remain