Horizon Series Tops 40 Million Units Sold - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 14 November 2025 / 5,107 Views
NCSOFT general manager at G-Star 2025 announced the the Horizon franchise has also sold 40 million units worldwide.
This figure is up from 38 million units as of July 2025 and 32.7 million units as of April 16, 2023.
The Horizon franchise includes Horizon: Zero Dawn, Horizon: Forbidden West, Horizon: Call of the Mountain, and Lego Horizon Adventures. There is also the recently announced MMORPG Horizon Steel Frontiers from NCSOFT that licensed the IP from Sony Interactive Entertainment.
Horizon: Zero Dawn released for the PlayStation 4 in February 2017 and for PC in August 2020. The remaster released for the PlayStation 5 and PC in October 2024.
Horizon: Forbidden West released for the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 in February 2022, and for PC in March 2024.
Horizon: Call of the Mountain released for PlayStation VR2 in February 2023.
Lego Horizon Adventures released for the PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, and PC in November 2024.
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2 mainline games, 1 vr game and 1 lego collab. So basically just the 2 mainline games put it near 40m.
But I'm told here that they want to paint in as something bigger than it is... LOL
The series has some of the coolest enemies design out there, also one of the most complex builds for them as well, so many parts to interact in so many different ways.
Zero Dawn has THE best lore mindblowing reveal on any game I ever played.
Forbidden West is better than it in everything but the story/lore and it's also great on those.
If the third game is as good as these two it'll be one of gaming best trilogies ever. Completely deserved!
Wow! 2 million in 3 months!
Horizon to me is the best open world franchise i’ve ever experienced with Forbidden West being my favourite.
Zero Dawn has the best lore/reveal for any game.
Gorgeous world with engaging gameplay, beautiful music and larger than life impressive creatures.
We need a third part to the mainline Aloy trilogy, hopefully it's in the works.
1 million for zero dawn, 1 million for forbidden west and 38 million for the Lego versions right?
Does any1 have accurate sale numbers for each game!
Still massive congrats from guerilla games
Do you mean official numbers? Zero dawn was at 23,4m sold through back in April 2023. At that time, Forbidden west was at 8.4m. Current best guess is Zero Dawn is over 25m, and Forbidden West is over 15m. This "franchise" isn't just at exactly 40m, its obviously well over that amount, if you factor in the lego game, the VR game ect. Though both the lego game and the VR game, seemed to have "failed" (ei. both likely under 1m).
Zero dawn prolly slowed down to 24 mil, 14 mil for forbi, and then the 2 mil for the VR and lego
Genuinely curious how many are traditional sales vs pack-in sales
My copies for HZD and HFW were pack-ins that I probably wouldn't have bought otherwise
Glad to see all the love for Horizon on here. Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West are two of my all time favorite titles, with Aloy being up there in my top five favorite characters of all time.
But but but Mark Kern (Grummz) told me it was woke rubbish and no one bought it?!?!
Are you telling me that he was just lying for engagement click money on social media?
Who could have seen that coming?!
Well done!
"Units sold" yet HZD was given to us for free during 2021, if those and other units downloaded via PS+ Games Library don't count than those who played/owned is far higher too.
They like to brag with numbers but it's sad we can't know how many of the buyers were disappointed. I bought Zero Dawn and didn't have a bad time with it, but as soon I completed it, I just sold it back and said to myself "never again".
Forbidden West didn't bring anything new and just was satisfied about being the simple Sony product that just ticked all the boxes. I'm glad I didn't buy it. That game stank amateurism and flaws for someone who isn't just blinded by beautiful 4k textures.
Unless they bring a HUGE lot of massive changes (which would denature the game anyway), Horizon 3 may, no, will be a massive flop.
Well Zero Dawn was up to 24.3m back in April 2023 between PS4 and PC. Since then a remaster of Zero Dawn released on PS5 and PC. So Zero Dawn should be at least 27m by now I would guess. That leaves 13m split between Forbidden West and the 2 spinoffs, Lego and Call of the Mountain. Forbidden West's last official number was 8.4m in April 2023, and that was before it's PC release in 2024, so it should be at least 11m by now, up another 3.6m since April 2023 between PS5 legs and the PC release. That leaves just ~2m between the two spinoffs. Seems like the spinoffs were not big successes.
I think you might be over-estimating the remaster sales from your prediction. The remaster is barely a year old at this point and it was a 10 dollar upgrade for both PS4 and PC versions which wouldn't count as new copies. I can't see an almost 3M increase for ZD from April 2023, just my thoughts. Maybe 26M would be my guess and I would say less than a 1M for the two spinoffs since they both bombed. The general consensus online is that FW would be around 13M but who's to say at this point. Burning Shores came out in April 2023 and that surely gave a boost for FW.
Yeah, I didn't realize it had a $10 upgrade path, I seem to recall seeing people mad when it was announced because it didn't have an upgrade path, but I guess I was misremembering or people just thought there wasn't an upgrade when there was one. Guessing they aren't counting the $10 upgrades as new copies then. So probably more like 25.5-26m now for Zero Dawn. The two spinoffs really didn't seem to do well, which isn't too surprising for Call of the Mountain because it wasn't marketed much, but the Lego game had heavy marketing, I remember seeing at least 2 dozen ads for it on streaming services in the weeks leading up to it's release. Mainline sales are healthy at least, some slowdown on Forbidden West I believe, but that is likely more down to pricing than anything else, Forbidden West has stayed at higher prices longer than Zero Dawn did, which results in more money per copy sold but lower sales volume.
Why wouldn't they count upgrades as sales?
