Horizon fans have been looking forward to any news about the rumored Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered for quite some time now. Both for good and for ill. On one hand, it will be a PS5 remaster of that venerable PS4 game. Presumably with Horizon Forbidden West levels of graphics to match. On the other hand, fans are also worried about the potential pricing of the game. Especially when compared to the PC port that offers similar levels of graphics at a high frame rate. No matter which side you’re on though, everyone wants to know if it will be actually happening at some point.

Fortunately, it looks like we don’t have to wait any longer for that. Not when ESRB has indirectly confirmed the existence of Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered by simply giving it a rating. All without any official announcement of the game from Sony or Guerilla Games. So, uh, whoops?

Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered: Confirmation Details

The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB)’s official website has just indirectly confirmed the existence of Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered by simply giving it a rating. First off, the game is rated T for “Blood, Drug Reference, Language, Mild Sexual Themes, Violence“. Which, as fans know, is the original rating for the game. ESRB also confirms that the remaster will be for both the PS5 and PC. They also go into detail about that rating with a summary, with fans of that first game recognizing those references. You can read that summary below:

This is an action/role-playing game in which players assume the role of a hunter (Aloy) surviving through a post-apocalyptic world. Players guide Aloy as she learns to hunt robotic creatures and animals in the wild. Aloy uses arrows, spears, and explosive traps to injure and kill machines, boar, and occasional human enemies. Animals and humans emit small puffs of red blood when struck; one sequence depicts an abandoned camp with large blood stains on rocks and trees. The game contains a brief reference to sexual material (e.g., “Eighteen months hard labor in exchange for thirty years lounging around Elysium watching porn?”). In text/audio files, characters sometimes reference fictional drugs, overdoses, and getting high: “…not even out of junior high and already a drug addict”; “…I ran across a pusher who was selling Razorwing for eight bucks a tab”; “I’d spend a few days getting high, then OD on Overcast.” The word “sh*t” appears in the text/dialogue.

Alas, ESRB gives no release window for Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered. That’s something we’ll have to wait for Sony and Guerilla Games to tell us later.

Tune back in to THS to find out more about Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered and other video games when we do.

Source: ESRB