Best Horizon: Zero Dawn Trainer For PC (2020)

Some people might be put off by the mere mention of cheating, given its bad reputation. In single player games, though, it can improve the experience for certain kinds of players, and spice up second or third playthroughs with new abilities.

The most common reason to use a trainer is to make the world of a familiar game into more of a playground. Cheats can give you the power to experience an old favorite in a new way, and some could even allow you to go out of bounds and discover more of how the game works.

Others prefer to use cheats to make a game easier to beat. Less skilled players or those with disabilities might find it easier to enjoy the game by removing some of the limitations that make it challenging for a wide audience.

Trainers work by editing the memory addresses where a game stores information in your computer. They can freeze certain values, which can give you infinite health or ammo, and alter others, which can be used to give you in-game money.

Most trainers will at least have the sort of basic features listed above. Some other common cheats enable one-hit-kills, unlimited stamina, unlimited carry weight, free experience, and stat changes.

Depending on how a game is coded, there can be more interesting options as well. In an engine which has a value determining the speed at which time passes, a trainer could alter that speed and increase player speed at the same time, letting you move while NPCs are frozen in place.

Other cheats might increase movement speed or jump height, letting you bound over obstacles that are meant to be worked around or broken down, and maybe even clip out of bounds.

If all you want is a good laugh, you might be able to find a cheat to alter the values which govern how extreme facial expressions are, giving you hilarious results like this, from Heavy Rain.

Theoretically, any value that a game stores in your computer’s memory could be altered by a trainer, if it can be found. That means that trainers can only work with what the game provides. Unlike mods, they can’t add any new content, or completely change how the game looks. Single-player trainers typically don't have hack features like aimbots, either.

If all of this has gotten you interested in using a trainer for Horizon: Zero Dawn when it releases on Steam, then you might be wondering where to find it and how to install it when the time comes. We’ll explain it here.

First, you’ll want to find the trainer that you’re looking for. The easiest way to do this would be through a quick Google search, but you’ll want to verify that the website you get the trainer from is trustworthy before downloading it.

The next step is to open the file you downloaded. Most game trainers will do most of the hard work automatically. Because they don’t alter any of the game files, you shouldn’t have to copy anything into them.

On opening a trainer, you should be met with a screen that explains the cheats that are included, and how to activate them. Some trainers won’t have an option to activate the cheats because they are always active as long as the trainer is. Take note of any hotkeys.

The game trainer will only work if the game with the process name it is looking for is running. The process name required should be displayed somewhere on the trainer’s window. You don’t need to pay much attention to it unless something fails to work.

Start the game, and once it is running, you should be able to use the cheats immediately. When you’re ready to stop playing, close the game before the trainer, as doing it in the reverse order could have unpredictable results.

Any time that you tamper with software in any way, you run some risks. Trainers are generally safer than mods in some ways, but less so in others. As long as you’re careful, though, you shouldn’t have much to worry about.

Trainers might make damaging changes to your game in the short term, while the trainer is active, if things go wrong. Unlike mods, though, they don’t permanently change any of the game files, so any problems you run into can be fixed by restarting the game without the trainer active.

The main danger with trainers is that they can be used as a vector to spread malware. This can be the case with mods, as well, but most mod providers like Nexus or Steam have vetting systems to make sure malicious mods don’t succeed. Make sure to use a trusted website if you aren't going with Cheathappens, our top choice.

We’ve been purposefully vague up until this point to make sure we don’t spoil anything about the game for people who might not have played it before. If you want to go in completely blind, you can skip to the conclusion section, but if you’re still curious, keep reading.

Horizon: Zero Dawn is a game that takes place in what appears to be a far future setting in which robotic beasts have taken over the world, or at least America. People live in small tribes and scavenge for pieces of discarded technology to eke out a living.

You play as Aloy, a machine hunter who makes her way in the world by taking on the robotic beasts that roam it. You’ll use an array of traps and arrows to take them down in a famously deep 3rd person combat system.

The game has been praised for its graphics, which hold up even three years later, as well as its story and world and character design. If you didn’t get a chance to play it on PS4, then this chance isn’t one you should pass up.