With the digital version of Game Informer’s October 2016 issue now available, NeoGAF user Obliterator has compiled a list of the possibly spoiler-filled details revealed about Horizon Zero Dawn, which is featured on the cover.
According to Obliterator, Guerrilla Games began working on Horizon in 2010. Built using its own engine, Guerrilla wanted to make a game that’s “beautiful in a majestic way,” as opposed to the grit of the Killzone games. With Game Informer saying they saw desert, arctic, and temperate environments, as well as machines that will hide in the water, Guerrilla added that Horizon is a sci-fi game and they won’t depend on fantasy at any point. We’ll also learn why the post-post-apocalyptic world is the way it is. As for protagonist Aloy, she’s focused on finding where she comes from, and who her mother was. Although Aloy was raised in the Nora Tribe, which is ruled by women, they ignore her existence and seem to shun her for reasons she doesn’t know. Raised by Rost, a male outcast who was forced to bring her up, Horizon will include playable flashbacks of Aloy’s childhood.
Here’s everything Obliterator says is revealed in the latest issue of Game Informer, including the fact that there will be lots of sidequests, but they won’t be as expansive as The Witcher 3’s:

Guerrilla wanted to make a game that’s “Beautiful in a majestic way” instead of the grit of Killzone. The...