Game Information
Game Title: The Legend of Heroes: Trails Beyond the Horizon
Platforms:
- PC (Jan 15, 2026)
- PlayStation 5 (Jan 15, 2026)
- PlayStation 4 (Jan 15, 2026)
- Nintendo Switch (Jan 15, 2026)
- Nintendo Switch 2 (Jan 15, 2026)
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Review Aggregator:
OpenCritic - 82 average - 89% recommended - 19 reviews
Critic Reviews
Analog Stick Gaming - Jeff M Young - 8.5 / 10
Trails Beyond the Horizon is a solid sequel to a saga that showed great potential in its first outing. The stakes are wildly impressive and goes places I simply didn’t see the series reaching. While the non-critical elements of the story do drag on, with several pointless and boring side quests, the core narrative told across three different paths, each with several of the series’ best characters, results in a climactic finale that shows why this series is one of the best JRPG’s out there.
COGconnected - Nicola Kapron - 84 / 100
All in all, The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon is a great entry in the franchise. It sounds good, looks good, and the narrative is truly kicking into gear. New players will definitely be confused, but this is the thirteenth game in the series. Just play the rest, I promise they’re good too.
Console Creatures - Matt Sowinski - 8 / 10
The Legend of Heroes: Trails Beyond the Horizon comes out swinging after a largely divisive previous entry in Daybreak 2, where so much of the story was tied up in time travel shenanigans. However, the main narrative is compelling despite a slow start.
DualShockers - Christian Bognar - 9 / 10
While Trails Beyond the Horizon excels especially in its combat and RPG systems, it also succeeds with its main story and side content, such as the Grim Garten, character relationship system, and side quests that all tell unique stories worth listening to. Trails Beyond the Horizon is a game that deserves recognition and is up there with some of the best the genre has to offer.
Game Lodge - Pedro Ladino - Portuguese - 9 / 10
Trails Beyond the Horizon paves the way for the end of the Trails franchise. It's not a perfect game, but it incorporates everything good and bad about the series, resulting in the most Trails game possible. Combined with more polished combat, it was the right recipe to make it one of the best games in the series.
Gamer Guides - Ben Chard - 85 / 100
Trails Beyond the Horizon finally moves the series’ main plot forward in a satisfying way, despite leaving off with a massive cliffhanger. With fantastic combat refinements, not even a slow first Act can dull our excitement about where the series goes from here.
GamesRadar+ - Alan Wen - 3.5 / 5
It's an excellent hybrid combat system that offers a good balance between both styles, certainly more so than Metaphor: ReFantazio.
IGN - George Yang - 8 / 10
The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon's compelling journey into space builds an exciting launchpad for what will come next.
Nintendo Life - Mitch Vogel - 8 / 10
Trails Beyond the Horizon is another solid new entry in the long-running series and feels like a firm step forward, even if it's not quite as big a step as some may have hoped. Though the story can be uneven, it's buoyed by a strong and diverse cast that keeps you invested and reminds you how all the work Falcom has been putting in over the years has ultimately been pushing towards something.Couple its engaging (if sometimes slow) narrative with polished graphics, deep character customisation, and a dynamic combat system, and you've got a great and ambitious JRPG that especially stands out in these relatively early days of the Switch 2 library. I'd give this one a strong recommendation to series fans, as it really does feel like a step up from Daybreak II. Newcomers, though, will want to give this one a pass until they've played the previous two Daybreak games, at least.
NintendoWorldReport - Donald Theriault - 7.5 / 10
Eventually, I do hope to circle back to Trails Beyond the Horizon, with a nice full notebook and a character interaction chart that makes Xenoblade Chronicles X's look small. The systems are fun to interact with - when they're not trapping me in what is supposed to be a horror game - and I want to be able to fully follow what's going on. Even if it takes me 700 hours across Switch 2, my PC, and a Steam Deck to get there.
PSX Brasil - Thiago de Alencar Moura - Portuguese - 95 / 100
The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon is an incredible success that puts the franchise back on track. With excellent combat, a (nearly) flawless story, and only a few technical issues that don't detract from the experience, it's a must-have game for fans of one of the best JRPG franchises of all time.
Push Square - Robert Ramsey - 8 / 10
Trails beyond the Horizon is one of the most impactful games in Falcom's series to date, dealing in world-altering revelations and truly dramatic story developments. For Trails fans who have come this far, Horizon has the potential to blow you away - but you need to be ready for hours of character recaps and exposition before things really start to ramp up.
RPG Site - 8 / 10
The Legend of Heroes: Trails Beyond the Horizon is the latest entry in the Calvard Arc, bringing some of the biggest twists and surprises of the series to date, and delivers a standout Trails title that will leave us theorizing for a long time.
RPGamer - Ezra Kinnell - 4.5 / 5
For me, The Legend of Heroes: Trails Beyond the Horizon is easily the best game in the Calvard arc thus far, and one of the greatest games in the entire franchise, though with the caveat that it is made possible by building on twelve games worth of context. New players should really avoid leaping in here and go back to at least Trails Through Daybreak, but series fans are in for a treat.
Restart.run - Hayes Madsen - 4 / 5
More than anything, it’s great to see Trails Beyond the Horizon take steps to answer some of the series’ longstanding questions, and set the stage for the grand finale of the entire epic. There’s still nothing else out there quite like Falcom’s series, and Trails Beyond the Horizon is a strong reminder that those hundreds of hours it takes to play all these games is well worth it. And perhaps more importantly, picture proof that Falcom is willing to learn from its past, and I’ve more hope than ever that it might truly be able to stick the landing for the wild experiment that Trails has become.
Shacknews - Lucas White - 6 / 10
But I wish so much time wasn’t wasted on achingly boring expository setup, non-optional side content with next to no substance, and a combat system that’s in the middle of an identity crisis. Falcom has done a lot more with a lot less in the past, and all this excess is wearing me down.
SmashPad - Danreb Victorio - 4 / 5
Trails Beyond the Horizon is a game that feels like it's setting up the foundation to pay off the fandom with a conclusion that's set to surprise people, for better or for worse. Five years ago, I likened Trails of Cold Steel IV to Avengers Endgame. Trails Beyond the Horizon might as well be Avengers Doomsday, and there's no telling what to expect when the sequel comes out.
The Outerhaven Productions - Scott Adams - 5 / 5
The Legend of Heroes: Trails Beyond the Horizon is the pinnacle of Trails storytelling alongside the best evolution of the hybrid action turn-based combat.
Worth Playing - Chris "Atom" DeAngelus - 8.5 / 10
The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through the Horizon is the franchise's first step into its endgame, and for the most part, it sticks the landing admirably. The gameplay hasn't changed much from the previous entries, but the overall storytelling and character beats are a massive step up from Daybreak 2. Its biggest flaws are some overall slow pacing and the fact that you'll need a lot of prior Trails knowledge to feel invested in the game. It's nothing that would stop longtime fans from having fun. The whole franchise is available now, so it's the best time to catch up - until the next main game comes out, that is.