"It's that blend of child-like style and mechanical substance that makes Lego Horizon Adventures a lovely game to play for parent and child pairings, though it's also just neat to see these usually self-serious characters put through a washing machine loaded with crayons."

The new game rebuilds 2017's Horizon Zero Dawn in the Lego universe, transforming the complex original into something simpler and family-friendly.

Lego Horizon Adventures (out Nov. 14) feels like a game made by the latter. A “Lego-fied” adaptation of the hit PlayStation game Horizon Z er o Dawn (2017), its story is a kid-friendly send-up of the original game’s bleak sci-fi setting,