Too simple and childish for adults, and too one-note to convert the kids, Lego Horizon Adventures does little to recommend it to Horizon fans or newcomers.

Playing (with) Lego doesn’t have to be pure escapism. In telling Horizon’s story of environmental collapse and capitalism gone wild, Lego Horizon Adventures puts a layer of kid-friendly plastic building block abstraction between the concepts and the increasingly inevitable reality. And that makes it not only manageable, but also shareable.

LEGO Horizon Adventures is a high level reworking of PlayStation's Horizon Zero Dawn game, with the LEGO theme. The new journey follows the same story from the PlayStation title, with the lead character Aloy who finds herself to be an outcast from the village of Mother's Heart.

LEGO Horizon Adventures from developers Guerrilla Games and Studio Gobo aims to walk an interesting balance between bringing a powerhouse franchise to

Lego Horizon Adventures has all the lighthearted charm of a Lego game, but doesn't perfectly snap that into Horizon's world.

I really liked Lego Horizon Adventures, a game that’s exactly what it sounds like. It tells an embellished version of the events of Horizon Zero Dawn, the first game in Guerrilla’s series of post-apocalyptic open-world adventures,