Horizon Forbidden West was developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It received a PEGI audience rating of 16.

Guerrilla Games, part of PlayStation Studios, is based in Amsterdam, which is where their games are developed, including Horizon Forbidden West.

The game is a single player action RPG, with a post apocalyptic narrative in which the audience play as Aloy, who battles a robot swarm in order to investigate a dangerous plague. It is a third person game, as opposed to using a POV perspective like an FPS would. It is also the sequel to Horizon Zero Dawn, a 2017 PS4 Game.

The game launched for PS4 and PS5 on February 18th 2022, and released on PC on 21st March 2024.