As players work their way through Horizon Forbidden West, they will accept and complete a variety of unique quests. While some of these missions are entirely optional, others are used to advance the game's main story and cannot be skipped. This Horizon Forbidden West mission list will showcase the extent of both of these types of quests, and it will give fans a sense of what they can expect as they progress.
To note, while this mission list will not go into the specifics of the quests, their titles may serve as minor spoilers. Additionally, the starting locations for the optional missions are noted, and those may reveal some unknown information about Horizon Forbidden West's map. As such, players that are attempting to avoid all story and location spoilers may want to stop reading now.
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Horizon Forbidden West: Mission List
Main Story Missions
Horizon Forbidden West's main story unfolds over the course of 17 missions, and players should expect to get through it in around 25 hours. Here is a list of those main story missions, and the recommended level for each of them has been indicated:
Name | Recommended Level | |
1 | Reach for the Stars | Level 3 |
2 | The Point of the Lance | Level 4 |
3 | To the Brink | Level 5 |
4 | The Embassy | Level 7 |
5 | Death's Door | Level 10 |
6 | The Dying Lands | Level 15 |
7 | The Broken Sky | Level 17 |
8 | The Eye of the Earth | Level 17 |
9 | The Kulrut | Level 18 |
10 | Cradle of Echoes | Level 20 |
11 | The Sea of Sands | Level 22 |
12 | Seeds of the Past | Level 24 |
13 | Faro's Tomb | Level 26 |
14 | GEMINI | Level 30 |
15 | All That Remains | Level 31 |
16 | The Wings of the Ten | Level 32 |
17 | Singularity | Level 35 |
Side Quests & Errands
Side quests and their simpler-counterparts, errands, are all marked on the map with green exclamation points. This means that players will not be able to distinguish between these two types of optional content simply by looking at the in-game map, and they have thus been grouped together for the purposes of this guide. Here is a list of all the errands and side quests in Horizon Forbidden West, and they can easily double the length of a playthrough:
Name | Starting Location | |
1 | Shining Example | Arrowhand |
2 | The Gate of the Vanquished | Arrowhand |
3 | The Wound in the Sand | Arrowhand |
4 | Thirst for the Hunt | Arrowhand |
5 | Shadow from the Past | Barren Light |
6 | Shadow in the West | Barren Light |
7 | Signals of the Sun | Barren Light |
8 | Sons of Prometheus Data | Breached Rock Rebel Camp |
9 | Breaking Even | Camp Nowhere |
10 | Need to Know | Camp Nowhere |
11 | Signal Spike | Camp Nowhere |
12 | Drowned Hopes | Carja Camp/Camp Nowhere |
13 | A Bigger Boom | Chainscrape |
14 | A Dash of Courage | Chainscrape |
15 | Learning Machine Strike | Chainscrape |
16 | The Bristlebacks | Chainscrape |
17 | The Enduring | Chainscrape |
18 | The Twilight Path | Chainscrape |
19 | A Hunt to Remember | Cliffwatch |
20 | Deep Trouble | Crimson Narrows |
21 | Lofty Ambitions | Hidden Ember |
22 | Nights of Lights | Hidden Ember |
23 | The Souvenir | Legacy’s Landfall |
24 | The Way Home | Legacy’s Landfall |
25 | Blood for Blood | Memorial Grove |
26 | The Valley of the Fallen | Memorial Grove |
27 | The Deluge | North of Scalding Spear |
28 | The Music in Metal | Plainsong |
29 | The Oldgrowth | Plainsong |
30 | The Promontory | Plainsong |
31 | The Roots that Bind | Plainsong |
32 | The Second Verse | Plainsong/The Base |
33 | The Taste of Victory | Salt Bite |
34 | Burden of Command | Scalding Spear |
35 | In Bloom | Scalding Spear |
36 | A Tribe Apart | Stone's Echo |
37 | The Burning Blooms | Stone's Echo |
38 | Forbidden Legacy | The Base/Legacy’s Landfall |
39 | What Was Lost | The Base/Memorial Grove |
40 | A Soldier's March | The Bulwark |
41 | Call and Response | The Bulwark |
42 | First to Fly | The Bulwark |
43 | The Blood Choke | Thornmarsh |
44 | In the Fog | Tide’s Reach |
45 | Tides of Justice | Tide’s Reach |
Other Activities
While not technically quests, players will encounter many other types of activities as they explore the map. These activities include timed challenges, combat-focused trials, and outposts to be cleared. There are also dungeons called Cauldrons and Relic Ruins puzzles in Horizon Forbidden West, which will extend a fan's playtime even further.
Horizon Forbidden West is available now on PS4 and PS5.
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