Once upon a time, the wall between console games and PC games was hard and fast: the PC had strategy games and CRPGs, PlayStation had Japanese games, Nintendo had Mario and Zelda, Xbox had Blinx: The Time Sweeper (all other companies jealous).

But these days, with the exception of Nintendo, everything is everywhere. And with the release date of the PC version of Horizon Forbidden West, everything is about to become more ubiquitous than ever. According to porting studio Nixxes, the release date is March 21.

Forbidden West is a sequel to Horizon Zero Dawn, which was released for PC in 2020 and continues Aloy's adventures in a post-apocalyptic world populated by robodinos. When the game was released on PlayStation, it received high praise from reviewers who praised its visuals, story, and combat.

The version coming out in March is the Complete Edition, which comes with all sorts of bonuses, add-ons, trinkets, and props. The most notable of these add-ons is the "Burning Shores" expansion, which adds an entirely new area to the game and a new storyline to accompany it.

Nixxes has also included a number of PC-specific technical goodies for this version of the game. These include unlocked frame rates, DLSS 3 (alongside AMD's FSR and Intel's XeSS), DLAA (for those who can handle it), and DirectStorage for PS5-style super-fast load times. For those playing in the Vegas Sphere, it also supports resolutions up to 48:9 and triple monitor setups.

Sounds good to me, and I have no doubt that the PC will be a great place to play Forbidden West when it finally launches (barring a "Last of Us"-like porting disaster.) Zero Dawn was a bit buggy, but most of those bugs have now been worked out and it's a competent and very clean open-world action-adventure. With any luck, Forbidden West will be able to skip the buggy bits altogether.

Horizon Forbidden West is available on Steam and the Epic Games Store.