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,

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.