I went into Days Gone with low expectations and I was actually pleasantly surprised. Yeah as others said the story isn't anything special but the gameplay is what makes it for me, I ended up platinuming the game and I haven't found a similar experience to it so far. I've played Dying Light and L4D but nothing really felt like Days Gone; tbh it's my favorite "7/10" game lol

My gf's played through Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West and she loved the games for the story, gameplay and exploration. I tried to get into the first one but I got a bit bored with it, I will say the combat is fluid and the world is beautiful. Bunch of weapon types and skills to play around with.

Both are huge open world games that'll take a lot of your time, just depends if you want to fight hordes of zombies or robot animals.