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

I’m not really sure what Sony or Guerilla saw in the crossover potential of Lego Horizon Adventures. Lego and PlayStation's post-apocalyptic dino-hunting series don’t seem opposing, exactly, but before sitting down to play it I didn’t see any multiplicative Big Brand power in combining them either—especially when compared to Lego Harry Potter or Star Wars games.

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,