How Horizon: Zero Dawn accidentally became 2017's most important game

Horizon: Zero Dawn is supposed to be a fantasy game, and with its tale of huge robotic monsters roaming around a lush but post-apocalyptic landscape, it looks like one too. But after the year we've had, it can feel a little too close for comfort. It wasn't meant to be this way. When the game began, it started as a fun way of exploring an interesting environment – but by centring around the concerns of environmentalism, automation and feminism, it seems to have ended up as 2017's most important game. Horizon: Zero Dawn entered an entirely different world when it was fist pitched in 2010.