Vintage Story is a block-based survival game that one might summarize as “Minecraft with extra steps”. I’m obsessed with it and have played for 300 hours. There are horse mods already, and official horses are coming in the near future.

I have written about The Ranch of Rivershine on this site on various occasions over the years, but what’s been missing is an actual review of the game. The time for that has definitely come, so let’s dive into my actual play experience with the most successful indie horse game on Steam.

Horse Club Adventures 2 – Hazelwood Stories was developed and published by Wild River Games from Germany and released on Steam, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Xbox One in October 2022. With a few years’ delay, let’s finally look into how Horse Club Adventures 2 compares and what it offers.

Part of my joy in writing these reviews comes from telling you in excruciating detail about the games you don’t already know and care about. This game has 11 reviews on Steam in total, so I can actually add relevant insight here – and I personally was very interested in this game considering the history of its franchise. 

Horses of Hoofprint Bay, a 2D hand-drawn horse riding and stable management game inspired by my childhood favorite, is out now on Steam! Developed by thogli studios and published by The Mane Quest, Horses of Hoofprint Bay has taken the horse game community by storm over the past year – though admittedly, I’m a heavily, heavily biased observer here. I will once again do my best to straddle the line between reporting on games and working on them by telling you all you need to know about our game’s release.

I am stoked to share this interview with the thogli studios team and myself from Video Game Town: Bringing ‘Horses Of Hoofprint Bay’ To Life. Definitely take a look if you’re interested in a closer look at how thogli studios works, how Horses of Hoofprint Bay and some of its features came to be, and some teasers for what’s still to come.

The Horse Club game series by developer and publisher Wild River Games announces its third entry! I’ve been in touch with the Wild River team before, and even consulted on the latest title: Horse Club: Ride West invites the player on a Western themed ranch vacation with the Horse Club characters and their horses. To celebrate the announcement, I sat down with Stefan Kummer and Daniel Boos from the Wild River team to learn more about their development process.

Indie horse game developers who make games out of a passion for the subject matter are becoming more common these days. Many of these up and coming horse game devs make basic mistakes in marketing and publishing. This article is aimed at those passionate newcomers: Guidelines, basic do’s and don’ts and things to keep in mind for anyone planning to make, announce and distribute a horse game of their own.