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The future of an entire continent is at stake in this milestone entry in the Trails series! Explore the vast Calvard Republic with three different protagonists, nurture connections, and master powerful skills in both real-time and turn-based battles as you uncover the secrets at the core of Zemuria!
The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon is a rpg, action and adventure game
developed by Nihon Falcom and PH3 GmbH
and published by NIS America and Inc..
Released on January 15th 2026 is available only on Windows
in 2 languages: English and Japanese.
It has received 545 reviews of which 507 were positive and 38 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 58.99€ on Steam.
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10/11
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 1600
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 26 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Settings: 1080p, 30 FPS, Performance Graphics Profile
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I’m still not even close to finishing it but it’s already so good that I can’t recommend it enough to anyone following the Trails series. A strong culmination of the arc on par with Daybreak I and a clear step up from Daybreak II. To truly appreciate it you should experience the series from the very beginning starting with Trails in the Sky. Years of worldbuilding across Zemuria finally pay off here making many long-running threads finally start to come together. As someone who loves long epic RPG journeys and sprawling book series this is exactly the kind of experience I look for.
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If you haven't played the rest of the series, please do not play this game and go back to Sky FC, especially now that the remake has come out. This is a spoiler-free review I think this is a truly special game. Horizon is the stellar example of what Trails is about, and every single thing I love about the franchise, from its pacing to the character works to the world building all come to a head here to form what is a one-of-a-kind experience even for the franchise itself. Horizon is the culmination of almost 13 years worth of writing coming together into a ‘convergence’ point in this game. I’m genuinely baffled by how ‘final’ this game feels in fact, because I know for sure we’ve got at least one more arc left after this. It almost makes me scared because the stakes introduced in this game are so high I’m not sure how they’re going to top this. I will say that if you don’t like the ASO at all, you probably won’t like this game either. Kai doesn’t “fix” anything about Calvard’s characters, and continues to build on them same as it always has been. This is also not a Reverie 2.0, and rather the third Calvard game, so if you’re expecting the rapid-fire structure of Reverie with zero slice of life or slow moments, you’re gonna be disappointed. The three-route structure unlike Kuro 2 actually makes sense in this game and crucially, doesn’t take away from the focus that the ASO needed in their own arc. A lot of people dislike Act 1 for being ‘more of the same’, but I think it’s so crucial because we NEEDED that kind of focus along with the plot progression especially when Kuro 2 failed spectacularly at both. Rean and Kevin’s routes are amazing, and for a moment I was scared that they’d end up taking the focus Van and co. need, but it was a pleasant surprise to see that not being the case at all and them being really more “side-story”-esque structured while building up to the main mystery of the game. Combat is the best it has ever been in this franchise, full-stop. While I don’t dislike the real-time part of the combat, I don’t hate it and think it’s super fun, but I feel like despite all the new additions in this game, I’m still not fully convinced on it. The second phase of the final boss makes me think that they’re going to expand on this system further though and flesh it out a lot more, which is pretty exciting. As far as the turn-based goes, it’s sublime. The new and upgraded animatons make the combat SO much more fun than the previous games, and shard skills being majourly rebalanced and overhauled just clicks everything into place. I’m generally a story guy but playing this game at Nightmare give me some of the most memorable boss fights ever, being forced to use EVERY single tool at my disposal, playing against the AI in almost a sort of dance of shard commands, skills and well-timed buffs. Admittedly at some points, it was super frustrating wasting 30+ minutes on a single boss just to get wiped out because I missed a single buff window, but the mere fact that Trails combat made me feel anything at all is crazy to think given the rest of the series. My overall emotion during the game was that of fear. I was ♥♥♥♥ scared with my guts tied in a knot for most of this game, and I think that speaks to just how good the mystery and thriller of this game is. I’m seated for the next game, as I would’ve been anyways, but this time with a smile because I’m happy to know that my fears of Falcom losing the plot after Kuro 2 were unfounded.
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13 games worth of investments starting to payoff in the Horizon I usually play Trails games first in Japanese and then replay them in English when they release, and have played all the games twice but this is the first game that I actually waited for the English PC release to play because I didn't have my PS4 anymore. It was 3 long years of wait, but here it is finally and it was worth it. Trails beyond the Horizon is a great Trails game that finally moves the story forward after the disappointment that Daybreak 2 was. This time we start to see the payoff that we've been waiting for in the story with many surprising and unexpected events and several improvements in many areas, especially in the animations. Horizon left me satisfied with how it developed its story overall and made me even more thirsty for the next game. I was honestly very worried about the series after Daybreak 2 because that game did not move the story forward at all and everything we did was basically negated by the time leaping stuff. Now in Horizon, everything starts to make sense, the story moves forward, a lot of connections to past games happen and a lot of new secrets of the continent is revealed. It is a game that starts really slow, but then develops a lot near the end. Kevin's route was the most interesting and where the biggest reveals happened. It was great to see him back as the Heretic Hunter, working together with the picnic gang and they had the best sense or humor but also seriousness and a darker tone, great pacing and reveals about more of the background stuff happening in the story. Rean's route was the least interesting of all in my opinion but it was much better than just an excuse to have a fan-favorite character in the game; in his route he explores more about the surface stuff related to the rocket launch and also gets to finally have his fateful encounter with his master that has been teased for long. Van's route takes the majority of the game time. In the beginning it is very slow paced, but after the middle it starts to develop with interesting reveals and then towards the end it is where the game is all about and we get all the lore that we've always wanted, big reveals, big surprises, unexpected events, and is also where all the dots connect. The final developments of the game were peak Trails experience with a lot of things and I believe this is the game that will make us think the most about what's happening in Zemuria, what's going to happen in the next games and do a lot of theory crafting because even though a lot has been revealed, almost nothing was actually explained and the biggest reveals happened in the last chapter, which leaves everything for the next game. Horizon also saw big improvements in a lot of areas and the animations are the true stars of the show both in cutscenes and in combat. It was incredibly enjoyable to watch the scenes and in combat it made everything dramatically more dynamic and fun compared to previous games even though the core attacks are the same, showing how much the extra camera work and effects can make a huge difference. On top of this, a lot of new mechanics have been added to the combat system making it very complex which is awesome, but I think they did not balance the difficulty well to compensate these additions as there are many unbalanced battles with spongy enemies and annoying mechanics but at the same time there are battles that are very easy. There is again the grind dungeon named Grim Garten. I am not a big fan of these type of dungeons, but it is much improved, interesting, faster to complete and the reward at the end for completing it is well worth it as it is actually main story content with one of the big reveals of the series despite being optional. PC port is perfect and made by the legendary Durante. Runs flawlessly and has incredibly sharp graphics thanks to the latest DLSS4.5 technology already implemented in the game on top of tons of graphics improvements and features that are exclusive to the PC version. It's a beautiful game with excellent graphical quality and optimization as expected from Durante. Trails beyond the Horizon is a high point in the series in my opinion and the story that took me 75 hours to beat is where is shines. It starts very very slow, but at around the middle things start to unfold in a great pace and at the end we get a lot of lore developments that left me amazed and I need some time to organize my thoughts to both understand what has been revealed and try to think what's going to happen in the next game as Horizon left me with more questions than answers. The story is unfolding in an amazing direction and we are finally starting to understand all the secrets about the world and is where we are getting the payoff for having invested our time in 13 games so far. There's absolutely nothing like Trails and what Falcom is doing in the industry, it is certainly an unique experience that cannot be described in a few words and only those who had the dedication to play through all the games will know and we are finally getting all the payoff for that investment. Horizon also includes several improvements with more gameplay mechanics making it more dynamic, the Grim Garten is more interesting and the animations is really where Falcom seems to have put most of their work because they are really good. There are a few areas in which I think they could improve like the gameplay system itself and the balancing of sponge enemies, a few nonsense moments here and there in the story that could've been better or implemented in another way, the beginning of the game being incredibly slow and of course, the soundtrack. Music is good and I liked it, but there's only 1 or 2 tracks that are really bangers and the rest felt normal. Even then, none of these really impacted the overall experience in a significant way, and the developments in the story towards the end are so great that these minor flaws can be easily ignored because the highs are so great. Horizon is not a perfect game and not the best of the series, but is definitely one of the highs and the one containing the most reveals, one that we feel the payoff of having invested in the series for so long, and also the one that left us wanting for even more. Starting 2026 with Trails beyond the Horizon was incredible and I'm sure what's yet to come will be amazing. Even though I wrote this review completely spoiler free, I am now ready to spend days theory crafting and discussing the lore of the game with full spoilers.
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It's season 13, if someone want to enter this series start from trails in the sky 1st remake. For niche series it got greatest port in the gaming industry.
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In this game you play as John Daybreak on his way to find the Trails Beyond the Horizon. On his journey he will find himself spending hours just talking to every NPCs because the falcom gods demanded it.
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon is currently priced at 58.99€ on Steam.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 58.99€ on Steam.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon received 507 positive votes out of a total of 545 achieving a rating of 8.66.
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon was developed by Nihon Falcom and PH3 GmbH and published by NIS America and Inc..
The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon is playable and fully supported on Windows.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon is not playable on MacOS.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon is not playable on Linux.
The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon is a single-player game.
There are 16 DLCs available for The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon. Explore additional content available for The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon on Steam.
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Nihon Falcom,
PH3 GmbH
Publisher
NIS America, Inc.
Release
15 Jan 2026
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