My dear horse game fans and lovely readers, I hope you will join me on a little experiement: I want to launch a new section on this website where other horse game enthusiasts can contribute articles. Send me your pitches now!
Read MoreSecond Life is a social online simulation, a virtual world where you can do just about anything. Thanks to active content producers and TMQ community members Teager and Monstaar, I get the occasional insight into this fascinating niche.
This is what it can look like when a group of motivated equestrian Second Life players gets practicing.
Read MoreSo many of us feel the same way: we remember that one great horse game we played as a kid, having long forgotten about whatever wasn’t good about it. We start to wonder “hey, it’s been years since I played a good horse game, I wonder what’s new in that genre”.
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 MoreIf you follow some artists on social media, you will no doubt have heard of one or the other monthly drawing challenge: from Inktober to Mermay, various such community events have popped up over the years.
In May and June, several TMQ community members — including yours truly — participated in two horse-oriented drawing marathons.
Read MoreNew Zealand based games publisher PikPok has announced a desktop version of their popular mobile game Rival Stars Horse Racing.
Rival Stars Horse Racing: Desktop Edition is scheduled to launch on Steam on June 24th 2020 and will be available for Mac and PC. The game’s description claims it has been “graphically enhanced for desktop”.
Read MoreIf you’re a regular reader of The Mane Quest, you’ll already know that thousands of horse game fans are eagerly awaiting what looks like the most promising project this genre has ever seen: Equestrian the Game.
The team is diligantly sharing updates on social media. Let’s have a look at the latest.
Read MoreA part of the Horses & Video Games community has started organizing horse-focused virtual get togethers for the kind of players who simply want to share in the joy of riding across the virtual countryside on well-animated horses in Red Dead Online.
Read MoreIf you’d like to show your support and proclaim your horse game enthusiasm to the world, you can now get some cool merch items from RedBubble.
Read MoreAbout a month ago, a passionate rant posted to the /r/Games forum on Reddit brought the topic of horse games and their faults to a wide audience. The Plaid Horse, an online magazine dedicated to horses and equestrianism, approached the post’s author shortly afterwards to share a slightly edited version of the Reddit rant on their blog.
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.
Read MoreJoin the TMQ communities on Discord, Reddit and our brand new Facebook Group to meet other horse game lovers and share your ideas, complaints, jokes and thoughts about all things horses and video games.
Read MoreHorse Isle 3 is an open world online multiplayer game focused on catching wild horses and breeding them for better stats. The game went live in August, after several months of open beta testing.
The decision for the game to get “released” came as a surprise to some players, considering the game’s status: The game’s 3D art and user interface look rough to put it mildly.
Read MoreThe Mane Quest website was launched on October 23rd 2018, exactly one year ago today. The site started out with 10 articles, many of them much shorter than most that have been published since.
For The Mane Quest’s first anniversary, I want to share some interesting site statistics, tell you all a bit about what this project means to me, and to ask you for your feedback.
Wild Horse’s Valley is somewhat unique among the genre in that you control a herd of wild horses rather than managing a stable or equestrian center. You take the role of the lead stallion in charge of protecting your herd. In the wild, you may encounter dangers or new herd members.
Read MoreGerman developer Caipirinha Games has a new horse game in store in time for this year’s Winter Holidays:
The Unicorn Princess is an open world horse game with a fantasy twist: “Befriend Unica the unicorn while exploring the real world and the world of dreams,” says the promotional material.
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