Lost Horizon (video game)

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Lost Horizon
Lost Horizon (PC video game) boxart.jpg
Developer(s) Animation Arts
Publisher(s) Deep Silver
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows, iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch
Release
  • Microsoft Windows
    • GER: 20 August 2010
    • EU: 17 September 2010
    • NA: 24 September 2010
  • iOS
  • 11 November 2015
  • Android
  • 10 December 2015
  • Nintendo Switch
    • NA: 4 March 2020
    • EU: 5 March 2020
Genre(s) Graphic adventure
Mode(s) Single-player

Lost Horizon is a graphic adventure video game developed by Animation Arts and published by Deep Silver for Microsoft Windows, [1] iOS, Android and Nintendo Switch.

Contents

Reception

The PC and iOS versions received "favourable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [2] [3]

Sequel

A sequel titled Lost Horizon 2 was released on 1 October 2015 and it takes place 20 years after the events of the first game. [14]

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