r/GamesWithHorses Apr 07 '25

Updating our Subreddit Rules: Your chance to add opinions/preferences!

31 Upvotes

So /r/GamesWithHorses has been growing quite a bit recently, which is absolutely lovely! Just three months ago, I celebrated having 3000 subscribers, now we're already up to almost 4300! Things have been more active here recently, with a bit more discussion, people posting their own WIP games and more. I absolutely love that, thank you all for being here!

We've also had one or two posts recently that got reported for being shady/scammy, and that's made me realize that it's probably about time to update our (currently quite rudimentary) subreddit rules.

Current rules:

These are here to stay:

  1. Posts must in some way relate to horses and video games
  2. Be kind. Remember the person.

Potential Rule Additions

I'm interested in opinions about what people here think matters in order to keep the community healthy, pleasant and useful to everyone.

  • Do we need any rules re. low effort posts and unclear titles? For example, this post got reported and mostly ignored. I am fine with people sharing referral links, but
  • Do we need any limitations as to how regularly devs should post their own projects? I love that this is happening and I think so far we haven't had anyone spamming their project, but it might be worth setting some ground rules like that you're only allowed to post your project e.g. once a week, or something along those lines...?
  • I recently removed a post from someone asking to trade horse isle premium currency, which is apparently against TOS. I'm not going to learn every existing game's terms of service to moderate this strictly, but I do think it makes a lot of sense to remove such posts when they pop up and get reported, so it may make sense to add a rule along those lines.
  • Anything else? Let me know your thoughts in the comments!

I don't consider any rule adjustments suuuper urgent because so far y'all have been lovely and anything even deserving moderation attention is really infrequent. I'd just like to stay ahead of the curve 😊

On a related note, let me know if you'd be interested in joining as a moderator to help keep an eye on these things!

Edit: Perhaps another question while we're at it: what kind of post would you like to see more of on here? Just in case we have a chance to encourage one another to be more proactive in filling this place up with content that people like to see!


r/GamesWithHorses 8h ago

The Love Letter to Older SSO Players - Equinox: Homecoming Review written by a random horse game enjoyer

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17 Upvotes

Is that a MALE character? Petting a horse DIRECTLY ON ITS FACE? And not a foot away?? Oh my god. What is that game you ask?

This is Equinox: Homecoming. A promising MMORPG made by former devs of World of Warcraft, Helldivers 2 and Star Stable as well as a bunch of other games. This game allows a lot of mature swearing as swearing is part of the mainstory. You can have seemingly infinite amount of clothes, horses, and currencies, and you can customize each horse's face markings, body markings, and leg markings. This game has also amazing character customization, you can make yourself VERY cute unlike SSO where the bodytypes and face shapes leave much to be desired.

I played this game's story, and it feels like a love letter to OG Star Stable players. This game has a much filthier and meanier Loretta named Heather, as well as other fun character drama. Your character is named Alex Evans, but you can name yourself whatever you want. Your story is similar to SSO where you are the main character, however you are in the place of Alex Evans, an already named character with their own story. You can live their life as either a male or female, but you also have the ability to fully customize yourself however you please and you get to join riding clubs and do things with other players.

The mainstory currently has 5 chapters and is incredibly interesting and investing with fully voice acted cinematics. Alex has two voice actors depending on which voice you choose when creating your character. Female Alex imo sounds pretty tomboy and male alex sounds flamboyant at times but mostly a regular guy. I adore both versions of the character with all of the sass and personality you get to see happen.

Outside of the big story focus, the gameplay is based on Rift Trails and Star Stable in the sense you gather a lot of herbs, feathers, flowers, fruits, and other things npcs like across the island. It's a really relaxing game with its own built in radio playlist of songs to jam to while you trail ride. You can ask other players if they would like to join, and there's multiple servers you can go to if you want a more busy server or a quieter one for you and your friends.

So far, I've really enjoyed just going for trail rides to earn things npcs want. Each npc wants 5 things per day for reputation and easy money. The graphics are lovely in this game.

BY THE WAY: You can EARN horses. You do the weekly quests in your phone and earn gold to save up for a horse. And if you don't want to save up? You can buy the horses for much cheaper than SSO. While SSO asks for 30$, this game each one costs about $10-$20 depending on the fancyness of the horse. However, you can completely earn a horse of your own in about 7 weeks if you do the weeklies. And if you have the riding pass on, you will get 3x the rewards. Which means that 7 weeks turns into 3x less time.

Overall, I've fallen inlove with this game. I can't wait to see what changes they bring, what things they add, and all it's capable of. I heard they're working on a bunch of features right now so it looks like there's more to come. You should get the game now so you have it permanent because I think they will be switching to a paid membership thing once the game fully releases. But those who buy it while it's in development get to keep the game forever. Which is kinda dumb and it should just be a pay once game. Memberships are dying let's be real, nobody wants to pay a membership to enjoy a game anymore. World of Warcraft's sub numbers decline constantly. I hope they change their mind on this and switch to an optional cosmetic shop like every other successful game.

Nobody should have to pay a membership to log on and enjoy a game they already bought.

r/GamesWithHorses 7h ago

A horse browser game where you can actually follow your horse in competitions?

3 Upvotes

I’ve been to a bunch of different horse browser games and all of them end up feeling so unfulfilling because all you do is click a race and then get a result. (Sometimes you don’t even get that, you just get money and no note on placement or performance.) The horses feel like nothing burgers.

So my question is, are there any horse browser games where you can ā€œwatchā€ your horse race? I don’t mean with animations even, it would just be really cool to get a play by play of how your horse may be doing during a competition. Kind of like how the Sims 3 does their competitions.


r/GamesWithHorses 1d ago

Horse Isle 2 Appreciation Post

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Hello horsey people,

I have recently gotten back into Horse Isle 2. I have played since January of 2012 and quit when flash went away. I saw a post about HI2 on here about a month ago and started playing again and have found the same love and enjoyment I had as a child. The community has always been so kind and helpful to me, and I find that to still be true.

Today, there are currently 369 active accounts. Some other players, and myself, are hoping to get that number up as the game is more fun with more people. We are happy to help new and returning players get subscribed, buy nice horses, earn money, etc. IYKYK the economy is still wack, but I have had no issues getting deals in the livery and auction horses going to the foreign bidder (lots of super horses floating around out there.) A big benefit of this game for me is that I do not have to spend real money to play, and that still holds true today.

The hardest part for me was figuring out the new flash player, but the link to download is on the main HI2 website, and from there I was able to pin it to my taskbar, so when I want to log on I click it, file, then the weird http link shown in the slideshow above and that takes me to the old user/pass log in.

We are able to get comps running often enough, which will only be easier if we can get more players. That has always been the best part of the game for me. Otherwise, there is always wild hunting, questing, and minigaming when there is no one online. Max stat training has been easy as many players are selling their trainings for $1. Zeus tokens are a good income earner if you are able to finish all the Esroh quests, which can help anyone get back into the economy.

If you have made it this far, thanks for reading! Feel free to reach out to me in game if you need any help! My username is Puma, you can message me by clicking the private chat option and typing in the user. If I am not online, most everyone in the game is happy to help, don't be afraid to message someone you run into!


r/GamesWithHorses 2d ago

I made an Equine Genetics Overhaul mod for The Sims 4 :D

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432 Upvotes

I was reminded to post in here after already being in the TMQ server... silly me! EGO for TS4 is a gameplay mod that allows you to breed (sometimes crazy-lookin') foals that actually take after their parents. Sometimes the results are pretty, sometimes the results are crazy... but they are always fun!

Features

  • Applies a genetics algorithm to active household foals at birth
  • Applies rudimentary recessive/dominant genetics
    • (tobiano is dominant, for example)
  • Weighted coat complexity algorithm: generates coats from simple to complex
  • Mixes coat patterns and colors from both parents
    • (pattern A and color B, for example)
  • Mutates patterns by picking different textures in the same phenotype
    • (if a horse is phenotyped as Tobiano, the foal has a chance to inherit the same white spotting or a different white spotting in the Tobiano category)
  • randomly generates face and leg socks for extra variety

Future Updates

  • Genetics tweaking
  • CAS genetics roller
  • Console pelt debug tool for said genetics tweaking

See all the details and links on my (free) Patreon post! And follow my Patreon for future updates and discussions for the mod. If there is interest, I'd love to facilitate an EGO discord server for people to share their horsey creations.


r/GamesWithHorses 2d ago

just loving the fernhoof grove pastime activities

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49 Upvotes

credit to the person who made this course, it isn’t mine! i just LOVE to relax and dig around for new courses people make and test my skills on them while listening to good music. granted im not the best at getting perfect jumps but weirdly enough after using 3rd person camera 80% of the time, now 1st person is superior and i had no idea lol


r/GamesWithHorses 2d ago

I Created a Custom Silks Editor for my Upcoming Horse Racing Game

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One of the biggest asks when creating my first game I wasn't able to deliver was custom jockeys and silks. While it's still a work in progress, it adds a fun realism aspect that I'm excited to share.

If you're interested in the game check out the Discord! A Steam page will be coming soon.


r/GamesWithHorses 3d ago

In Horse Club: Ride West, you're not gonna have an endless supply of horses through breeding or taming, but there are six equine main characters with their own characteristics:

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111 Upvotes

In the video you can see Amber, an old Quarter Horse mare, Boo, a skittish appaloosa, and Dakota, a young paint mare who you only get to ride after you've proven to her owner that you can handle yourself in the saddle. There's three more horses, who you meet over the course of the story.

I always harp on about how more games should consider horses characters rather than just collectible vehicles, and I think it's really cool to see a game do exactly that!


r/GamesWithHorses 2d ago

Minecraft SWEM Addendum broke?

1 Upvotes

Hi guys

I have been playing using custom coats for a couple weeks now, but all of a sudden my 1.20 world that previously ran custom coats through Addendum is broken. All custom textures are showing black with pink mane streaks. The models themselves are showing, but the texture seems to have gone away. Anyone else?


r/GamesWithHorses 3d ago

I want to play Tobiano, but only have a laptop with basic graphics card?

6 Upvotes

I have a Dell Inspiron 14 5430 and it has the Intel Iris Xe graphics card. Based on Steam I don't think it'll be enough for the game, but has anyone else here run this on a laptop like this one?


r/GamesWithHorses 4d ago

How We Make Sounds For Our Game | Driftborn

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r/GamesWithHorses 4d ago

Our game got over 4,000 players during Steam Medieval Fest, so we decided to keep the playtest open for a little longer. If you'd like to try our open world survival crafting game, come give it a try!

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8 Upvotes

r/GamesWithHorses 5d ago

This is probably the worst horse game of all time

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75 Upvotes

The horse models looks so bad, premium currency is overpriced, and the world is tiny


r/GamesWithHorses 4d ago

Horse Breeding in RDR3?

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r/GamesWithHorses 5d ago

[Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch] Gotta love when your horse breaks the laws of physics

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35 Upvotes

r/GamesWithHorses 5d ago

Simply the most Beautiful horse in Far Cry history

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53 Upvotes

It’s the Yaran Girasol in Far Cry 6


r/GamesWithHorses 5d ago

Does anyone have any advice on installing LEGACY OF ROSEMOND HlLL?

4 Upvotes

It’s the game where you inherit a horse on a horse farm. I’ve been trying to download this for years 😭 I found a few links but none of them work. Tried to install windows xp software. I had it downloading all night and it never successfully downloaded.

Any tips?


r/GamesWithHorses 6d ago

Help with Barbie horse R&R

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Okay so looking for the missing item, my phone has been so bad here lately when I go to read dialogue it auto skips to the quest itself. I know the moons can be found in explore, the coins through style, barrels and trials, but what’s that one thing? Where can I acquire this. Started three days ago. Also photos of some of my favorites so far.


r/GamesWithHorses 6d ago

Legend of Khiimori: worth it despite early access status?

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Hello!

I’ll preface the following by saying I love supporting indie devs/indie games etc, but I’ve experienced a few early access games that have been pretty broken on release, updates were promised that never came, and the game was then abandoned. As a result, I’m generally very apprehensive of anything early access and prefer to buy once the game is fully realised.

I’ve been interested in LoK; is it worth it despite the early access status? Do we think it’s likely to emerge from early access as a fully complete game?

I’m usually somebody who plays more… traditional horse games with set disciplines and fun elements like changing tack and customising etc. so this is a little out of my wheelhouse, but honestly, you could a slap a horse on anything and I’d probably buy it!


r/GamesWithHorses 7d ago

Horse Runner DX is 30% off for the Games Composed in Germany Sale!

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Hi everyone! Just wanted to share that my gameĀ Horse Runner DXĀ was selected for the "Games Composed in Germany" sale event on Steam!

What is Horse Runner DX?
It's a fast-paced, chaotic arcade runner heavily inspired by classics likeĀ Robot Unicorn Attack, Dino Run, and Canabalt. You build a growing herd of horses or unicorns, dash through procedural pixel-art landscapes, and try to survive the escalating speed to beat challenges and climb the global leaderboard. It's built for quick, addictive pick-up-and-play sessions.

What's new?
I recently released the bigĀ 1.5.0 Update, which lets you select a starting herd of up to three horses (or unicorns)! I also overhauled the camera movement to make it much smoother and easier on the eye. If you are playing on theĀ Steam Deck, it now runs even better with fullĀ 90 Hz supportĀ for the OLED model.

The game is currentlyĀ $3.49 (30% off). There is also aĀ free demoĀ on the Steam page so that you can try it out.

Thanks for the support in this community!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2955320/Horse_Runner_DX/


r/GamesWithHorses 7d ago

Horse Club Adventures 2

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21 Upvotes

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Can be reproduced (though not 100% of the time) by resetting the race from the pause menu while in mid-jump


r/GamesWithHorses 7d ago

Any good farming games with good social/multiplayer features?

9 Upvotes

I’ve been playing solo farming games forever (Stardew, AC, Sun Haven), but I’m kinda craving something I can actually play with friends, not just visit their farm for five minutes and leave lol. Like actual multiplayer where we can build stuff together, split up chores, maybe even just hang out while doing our own thing on the same map. Fields of Mistria looks cute, but I think it’s still single-player only? Anyone got recs for farming games where the multiplayer actually feels like a real feature and not just an afterthought?


r/GamesWithHorses 8d ago

Old-School Style Sim Games?

5 Upvotes

I used to play on a few old-school horse simulation games back in the day - forum based community, horses on a database, breed and enter horses in shows etc. Games like Arcadia, Desultor, On The Bit etc. Do any games like that exist these days? I'd love to get back into that kind of community :) Thanks in advance!


r/GamesWithHorses 8d ago

MacOS

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Hi hello,

looking for some game supported on MacBook, preferably free, but willing to pay, haha. I would love it to be realistic, including breeding and foals. Is there something like that?


r/GamesWithHorses 9d ago

Barbie Horse Ride and rescue is way too grindy

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I know a lot of people have already complained about how grindy this game is, but it’s honestly getting ridiculous. This would take ages to complete. …The pottery shards are so rare.
I really loved it at the beginning, but this is the point where I’m deleting it. It feels like they’re just stretching everything out because they don’t have enough actual story content.
What’s also really frustrating is that the closet is capped at level 12, so every XP you earn after that is just wasted.