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Let’s have a brief look at a handful of games that were announced or released recently: I may not bee able to try them all out or research them in depth, but I can at the very least tell you that they exist, and maybe some of TMQ’s readers want to take a closer look at these new projects.
Read MoreCaballus Collecting is a game about collecting model horses and has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund its further development.
Read MoreMy Horse: Bonded Spirits is an upcoming horse game created by Games Incubator from Poland. The game’s Steam page and announcement trailer first went up on April 13th 2023. My Horse: Bonded Spirits does not yet have a precise release date, but is scheduled for 2024. Let’s take a look and what it claims to offer and why I don’t entirely trust it.
Read MoreAstride is an upcoming adventure roleplaying game featuring horse riding in a Scandinavian-inspired environment. It is the debut and passion project of Raidho Games. In a recent update on Steam, the Raidho team confirms that a first version Astride will be released in mid May 2023.
Read MoreI’ve been eagerly following the development of The Ranch of Rivershine ever since solo game creator and TMQ community member Éloïse Laroche first announced she’d be tackling the horse game genre. Today, Éloïse releases a playable Demo for The Ranch of Rivershine on Steam. Let’s dive deeper into how she’s been building the Cozy Bee Games brand and business, and what new challenges she’s facing with her newest project.
Read MoreThe vast majority of what we call “horse games” are cheaply made for kids. But what if instead, there were horse games made by people who really cared? A look at six work-in-progress horse games in various stages of development, made by people who really like horses and who want this niche to offer more.
Read MoreHarvest Days is an upcoming farming simulation indie game which promises somewhat extensive horse features In their latest dev log video, the team reveals details about the horse mechanics and unfortunately… let’s say it’s a mixed bag.
When I reviewed Rival Stars Horse Racing for the release of its Desktop Edition in June 2020, I already came away with a fairly positive view on it. I certainly did not expect the game’s scope to significantly expand beyond Racing. But as it turns out, PikPok games will be doing its best to make a lot of horse game fans very happy in the near future
Read MoreI came across a lovely looking adventure game: Dissension tells the story of an Imperial spy sent onto a dangerous undercover mission. Naturally, I reached out to the developer Disguised Games to get a bit more information about how this cute indie game will tackle its horse content.
Read MoreRewrite: Fantasy is an adventure role-playing game coming to iOS and Android in Summer 2020. The game features a 2D side-scrolling overworld, a character driven story, and a turn-based battle system. And horses!
Read MoreAesir Interactive, the studio behind single player horse games Ostwind/Windstorm (2017) and Windstorm: Ari’s Arrival (2019) is working on a new horse-themed project.
Under the working title “Stable Girl”, the German team has qualified for funding at FFF Bayern, Bavaria’s film and media sponsorship program
Read MoreI regularly search Twitter for anything that includes the words “gamedev” and “horse” in an attempt to keep track of what’s being made. One such search I recently stumbled across Kanna, an independently developed open world role playing games which promises to treat its horses as more than just ways of transport.
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