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Hopetown (video game)

Hopetown is an upcoming narrative-first journalistic cRPG by Longdue Games, a Disco Elysium spiritual successor with ex-ZA/UM staff including Martin Luiga and narrator Lenval Brown. Kickstarted at 450% of goal; unreleased, PC first.

Horace (video game series)

Horace is a British video game series starring a blue character on the ZX Spectrum, created by William Tang for Beam Software with three games in the early 1980s.

Horizon (video game series)

Horizon is Guerrilla Games' action RPG series for Sony, starring hunter Aloy in a far-future, machine-ruled post-apocalypse; mainline entries Zero Dawn (2017) and Forbidden West (2022) plus VR, Lego, MMO, and co-op spin-offs, over 38 million sold.

Horizon Forbidden West

Horizon Forbidden West: Guerrilla Games open-world action RPG, sequel to Horizon Zero Dawn, released February 18, 2022 on PS4/PS5; Aloy explores post-apocalyptic western US; Metacritic 88; $212M budget; Burning Shores expansion.

Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores

Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores is Guerrilla's April 19, 2023 PS5-exclusive story expansion, set in a volcanic-archipelago Los Angeles, adding Seyka, new machines, a Horus finale, 6-8 hour story, Metascore 81, and review-bombed 4.7 user score.

Horizon Hunters Gathering

Horizon Hunters Gathering: Guerrilla Games' three-player co-op action game in the Horizon universe, announced February 2026 for PS5 and PC; playtested twice, then reportedly rebooted in August 2026 with live-service elements removed.

Horizon Steel Frontiers

Horizon Steel Frontiers is a free-to-play MMORPG set in the Horizon universe, developed by South Korean company NCSOFT with Guerrilla Games, announced at G-Star 2025 and due in 2027.

Horizon Zero Dawn

Horizon Zero Dawn is an open-world action role-playing game by Guerrilla Games, released for PlayStation 4 in 2017. It follows the tribal outcast Aloy through a post-apocalyptic Earth dominated by animal-like machines.

Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds

Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds is the sole 2017 expansion for Guerrilla Games' Horizon Zero Dawn on PS4, adding the Banuk region The Cut, new machines (Scorcher, Snowclaw, Fireclaw), a level 60 cap, and a Metacritic 83.

Hornet (Hollow Knight)

Hornet is the fictional princess-protector of Hallownest from Team Cherry's Hollow Knight, a recurring boss voiced by Makoto Koji, and the protagonist of Hollow Knight: Silksong (September 4, 2025), set in Pharloom.

Horses (video game)

Horses, a first-person psychological horror adventure game by Santa Ragione, was released in 2025 and became a controversy after being banned by Steam and Epic Games Store.

Hoshimi Miyabi

Hoshimi Miyabi (星見雅) is a Zenless Zone Zero S-Rank Ice Frost Anomaly Agent, chief of Section 6 and youngest Void Hunter, released in Version 1.4 with a CRIT-scaling Frostburn kit and Hailstorm Shrine signature W-Engine.

Hotline Miami

Hotline Miami: 2012 top-down one-hit-kill action game by Swedish duo Dennaton Games (Söderström, Wedin), published by Devolver Digital; alternate-1989 Miami setting, answering-machine missions, synthwave soundtrack; sold over 1.5 million by 2015.

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (2015), Dennaton Games' top-down shooter sequel published by Devolver Digital, concludes the Hotline Miami saga; refused classification in Australia in 2015 over an implied sexual violence scene and never released there.

How Fish Is Made

How Fish Is Made: free 2022 Steam narrative horror game by Wrong Organ (Kasurinen, Tomec, Halldin), Futuregames students, Stockholm. PS1-style sardine-in-a-machine, up-or-down choice, 15-20 minutes, 95% positive reviews, Mouthwashing predecessor.

Hu Tao (胡桃)

Hu Tao (胡桃) is a Genshin Impact playable character: the 77th Director of the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor, a Pyro polearm user whose skill Guide to Afterlife trades 30% HP for an ATK boost and Pyro infusion.

Hugo's House of Horrors

Hugo's House of Horrors (Hugo 1, Hugo's Horrific Adventure) is a 1990 shareware DOS graphic adventure by David P. Gray of Gray Design Associates, in which Hugo rescues Penelope from a haunted-house mad scientist using arrow keys and a text parser.

Human: Fall Flat

Human: Fall Flat is a 2016 physics-based puzzle-platformer by No Brakes Games, published by Curve Games, starring the wobbly human Bob; up to 8-player co-op, 60 million units shipped, 5,000+ Steam Workshop levels, sequel announced.

Hunt the Wumpus

Hunt the Wumpus, Gregory Yob's 1972/1973 BASIC text game, also called Wumpus: 20-room dodecahedron cave, crooked arrows, pits, Superbats; first non-grid exploration game, precursor to interactive fiction.

Hunt: Showdown

Hunt: Showdown, renamed Hunt: Showdown 1896 in 2024, is Crytek's PvPvE extraction first-person shooter set in 1895 Louisiana and 1896 Colorado, with 12-player bounty matches, permadeath, sound-based tracking, and a 59,968 Steam peak.

Hunter × Hunter: Nen × Impact

Hunter × Hunter: Nen × Impact (HUNTER×HUNTER NEN×IMPACT) is a 2.5D 3v3 tag fighting game by Eighting/Bushiroad Games, published by Arc System Works, released July 2025 on Switch, PS5, and PC; 16 base characters, rollback netcode only on PS5 and Steam.

Hunter: The Reckoning – Deathwish

Hunter: The Reckoning – Deathwish is an upcoming first-person action RPG by Teyon, published by Nacon, set in the World of Darkness in New York City; announced March 26, 2026, releasing summer 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam.

Hyper Light Drifter

Hyper Light Drifter: 2016 top-down 2D action RPG by Heart Machine, created by Alx Preston, Kickstarter-funded ($645,158), wordless storytelling, dash-based combat, Metacritic 84, IGF visual art winner.

Hyperdimension Neptunia (超次元ゲイム ネプテューヌ)

Hyperdimension Neptunia (超次元ゲイム ネプテューヌ), also called Neptunia, is a Compile Heart and Idea Factory JRPG series set in Gamindustri, starring console-personifying goddesses like Neptune; began 2010 on PS3, includes Re;Birth remakes, Megadimension Neptunia VII, a 2013 anime, and Neptunia Unlimited (2026).

Hypnospace Outlaw

Hypnospace Outlaw is a 2019 puzzle-adventure game by Tendershoot (Jay Tholen) and No More Robots where the player moderates an alternate-1999 sleep-browsed internet; sequel Dreamsettler was cancelled in 2025.

Hyrule Warriors

Hyrule Warriors: Koei Tecmo-Nintendo musou series blending The Legend of Zelda with Dynasty Warriors combat. Entries: 2014 Wii U original (over 1 million sold), Definitive Edition 2018, Age of Calamity 2020, Age of Imprisonment 2025, a canon Tears of the Kingdom prequel.

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is a Koei Tecmo/Nintendo Switch musou hack-and-slash (Nov 20, 2020), a prequel set 100 years before Breath of the Wild with uncanonical twists; 4 million shipped, 79/100 critics, Switch 2 Definitive Edition due 2027.

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment (ゼルダ無双 封印戦記) is a canon Switch 2 musou game by Koei Tecmo and Nintendo, released 6 November 2025, dramatizing the Imprisoning War from Tears of the Kingdom; over 1 million copies shipped.

I Am Jesus Christ

I Am Jesus Christ: first-person biblical simulation game by Space Boat Studios (formerly SimulaM), published by PlayWay, released on Steam April 2, 2026; plays Jesus from baptism to resurrection with over 30 miracles; announced 2019, prologue 2022, AI voice acting, blasphemy debate.

I Am Your Beast

I Am Your Beast is a 2024 short-form covert revenge thriller FPS by Strange Scaffold and Frosty Pop, starring retired agent Alphonse Harding against the COI; 27 timed score-attack levels, Metascore 79, 98% positive Steam reviews.