Sony is publishing not one but two family-friendly games in 2024. While the world is loving PS5's superb 3D platformer Astro Bot, another equally all-ages title is due for release before Christmas: LEGO Horizon Adventures. Though a release date is yet to be announced (unless you believe a leak on PlayStation's website), a recent rating from ESRB (thanks, Wario64) does suggest it's not too far away.
The game, which is being released for PC and Nintendo Switch as well as PS5, has been awarded a rating of Everyone 10+, much like Astro Bot. Descriptors include depictions of fantasy violence and language, though it seems the latter will be pretty tame. One amusing detail in the rating's summary points out "The word 'a*s' is heard in the game", and that's as bad as it seemingly gets.
The rating also highlights "melee combat against LEGO cultists and robotic dinosaurs", featuring "punches, bows, and explosives". Having played a portion of LEGO Horizon Adventures earlier in the year, we can confidently say that anyone who's played any LEGO game in the last 20 years will know the level of cartoonish violence to expect here.
Are you excited to learn more about LEGO Horizon Adventures? Will you be playing with the family, or vetting it first for that one utterance of naughty language? Tell us in the comments section below.
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I bet finding the word was a pain in the, well Y’know.
Damn this looks good
After finishing Astro Bot yesterday, my son basically begged me to install Horizon. Maybe this IS for someone after all. I’ve felt this game was so baffling to exist previously.
@somnambulance
I think it’s Sonys way of getting the younger switch gamers into Horizon so they want the big boys games and a PS5.
My two nephews have switch but also now they older have PS5.
@somnambulance Lego games are fairly fun, in terms of being basic action-adventure games. Most of them play similarly and it mostly comes down to the licensing portion of the game, if you want to play them or not.
There's a user on the Nintendo sister site who is really extreme when it comes to any reference to anything adult... so I guess they're going to skip this game haha.
I think this is fine for most people though!
@UntilRespawn nah he’s on here too… and has me blocked. I am awfully adult though to be fair 😉
I'm really looking forward to this game. I plan on buying it on the Switch though so I hope the performance is fine.
I’m not entirely sure, but am I right in thinking there wasn’t any swearing in the original Horizon, even mild stuff?
Or have I forgotten even more about that game beyond the robot dinosaurs?
@MrGawain I can only think of maybe the odd s*** mentioned but Horizon is very tame even blood is barely shown.
@UntilRespawn A lot of us probably know who you mean. He often reminds us in nearly every Astro Bot article that he doesn't want anything to do with it.
My son finished both Horizon games and their DLC's and he loves them both ( he especially likes converting Striders, Watchers and Burrowers - rarely played without one of them around ^__^ ).
As for Lego games, he played Star Wars Skywalker Saga for a while, but he wasn't that into it.
However, he may feel differently about a Horizon lego game, since he loves the first 2 games.
We'll see how it goes when it launches.
I'm gonna save this article, just in case I make my own gaming company and I want my kid-friendly characters to swear like they don't give a...duck.
This is nothing, Team Asobi had to change the name from Asstro Bot to get that all-important Everyone 10+ rating.
@colonelkilgore You have both 'kill' and 'gore' in your name, too right you're blocked
Looking forward to playing this with the wife.
Just give us the date already!
@UntilRespawn I refuse to believe that person is being serious.
@Gremio108 well… if we’re gonna be pedantic it’s actually kil… but I get you 😎
Oh no… please not ads!
Come on and date it already, what's the deal?
Still think it's bizarre that the PS4 was skipped for this, especially if the Switch can run it.
@colonelkilgore oh my god you said it again, right that's it, blocked
@somnambulance I want this game. I am in my mid-thirties 😅
@UntilRespawn yes, I'm still convinced they are trolling. They used to come on here too. Maybe still do. I noticed them in the Astro articles over the weekend too
@colonelkilgore you and me both.
@HotGoomba You should add a swear word in the ending credits as a way to make sure they played all the way through. It’ll be really funny pinky swear.
I strangely forgot about this, but being a big Horizon fan, I'm now looking forward to it again after the reminder.
@UntilRespawn he’s an odd fellow.
A teacher who only likes kids stuff. If that isn’t warning signals then I dunno these days.
@somnambulance I'm 40 and i want this game since i enjoyed Horizon and Lego Batman.
I'm looking forward to this, but I have a feeling my thought will end up being: "this is fun, but it ain't Astro Bot".
this will sell a lot of copies on the nintendo switch..
"The game, which is being released for PC and Nintendo Switch as well as PS5", hol' up, how is this game being released on Switch, but not PS4 / PS4 Pro?
@Sacrosanctus I think Guerrilla Games are going with the idea that the PS4 doesn't and never has existed. Numpties.
It's losing out on a sizeable number of extra sales. And let's face it, this was never going to be a system seller for the Tub o' Lard.
For lowest rating (besides of course edutainment rating), eh I mean G/PG, E or E10+, A or B, either way it is.
This game has a place if companies want to milk IPs and kids can't wait to play games for teens and see parents/adults/teen siblings play them but can't wait a few years to play them. But it is sad when original IPs can't happen.
At least it's kids that play other games and not just the same milkable IPs we hear about all the time but I can kind of understand why if many parents play other games, the kids have other games for them/see the other games.
I was fine with family friendly IPs or less graphic content, I never knew we had Halo but did years later. I kind of didn't respond well to COD/Resistance Fall of Man with the blood effects or the eerie state of the level design in RFOM multiplayer but have gotten over that by now. Did fine with Star Wars Battlefront, Ratchet, Gran Turismo and more.
I wasn't even willing to let a kid I had play with me briefly while the parents talked and played Yoshi's Wooly World and Little Big Planet Karting than Forza I was playing prior to that or other games as to me the graphics and the type of games they'd get bored by and it made sense to stick with kids games/the imagination side of things than realism. I helped them out at times with the controls too.
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