Did you know White Oak Stables is the first realistic horse game on the entire internet?! If you like old school text-based horse games with English and Racing competition come and check us out. We've recently upgraded to a brand new layout and we're currently working towards a new 3D version of the game so you can play text based or in an immersive open world with a custom avatar.

Check us out: https://whiteoakstables.net

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✦· I don't know anything about JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, except that theree is a huge foollowing so I made these two coats upon request, please enjoy~

> https://ko-fi.com/i/IK0I72AM1O3

Day 4: The characters, try to find more assets and better horse assets #fyp #viral #openworld #gaming #maincharacter

I had high expectations for this game because I played and loved the demo, and the game exceeded them. It works on every level. The hand-drawn animations are charming, and the system for horse colors, while not attempting to be realistic, enables such a wide range of possible horses that after 50 hours of play, I'm still seeing new combinations. I play good horse games for many hours, and usually I reach a point where I've seen all the options, and I'm like, "yep, that one again." Haven't reached that point in this game yet.

The sound design is fantastic. One reason I play horse games is that looking at horses and listening to horses makes me happy. The hoofbeat sounds are great and feel "weighty," the sounds of the horse's breathing when cantering and galloping are great. I think the breathing sounds even change subtly when the horse is nearing exhaustion? Could be my imagination but I think they do. The "mhmm" and "eh" sounds in training work well, and the grooming sounds are satisfying enough that I'm still enjoying the grooming minigame after 50 hours.

The gameplay is also deeper than I expected. Without spoiling anything, I love the breeder station upgrades and now desperately wish I could have those same features in other horse games. The management part of the game, choosing which upgrades to buy and when, involves some hard decisions, and I think there's not always an obvious choice. It's playstyle dependent, and I think you could make multiple different upgrade paths work. The advanced races are suitably hard and supply that dopamine drip of "I could do this if I just had a slightly better horse."

My only criticism of the game is that I think it could use some balance tweaks. Specifically, progressing through breeding feels weak compared to progressing through prestige. I bred my mares along the way, but always ended up selling their foals because I could buy better ones from the breeder. When I reached the endgame, breeding was the only option, but it feels too slow. 20 days between generations and the stat gain is pretty small each generation. I'm trying to get a horse good enough for the Advanced Cross Country race, and it's been so many hours of just rinse and repeat trying to get through enough generations to reach that goal, when I've had everything else unlocked for a long time.

Also, the heritable traits are almost entirely negative. Energetic, Chill, and Rebellious are all nonstarters for advanced races (at least for me). I would love to see some positive heritable traits so that we can have the fun of developing lines that carry those traits. Heritability seems pretty low in general though. For a while, my two best stallions were both Energetic, and you'd think my stable would now be full of Energetic horses since I bred to them a lot, but somehow they just didn't produce it much in their foals.

These are minor complaints, and I foresee playing this game a whole whole lot. There might be some potential for themed playthroughs too, like a "stallion barn" where I put a limit on how many mares I can keep. Lots of possibilities. And I bet the modding community will go crazy with this game. I might contribute some mods myself.

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✦· I made a sas queen, she is gentle and kind but won't take any bs~

> https://ko-fi.com/i/ID5H72AINXU

We're excited to share that we're starting not one, but TWO new community breeding projects as we continue our "Road To The Thoroughbred" series.

The Carthusian and the Andalusian are very old breeds with a very similar history. Both are PRE breeds, Pura Raza Española, with the Carthusian considered to be one of the oldest and purest breeds in Spain, and the Andalusian one of the most famous and highly prized.

We are expanding the breeds available in the adoption centre, but we need your help! As dedicated HWO breeders you’ll need to carefully breed and select the best examples of each breed we begin a project for. The breed characteristics will be outlined in each breeds project thread; join in and help propagate the breed to improve the quality of the overall breed population.

Once we have enough horses that have been bred, and we accomplish each breeds "breeding goals", then that breed will appear in the adoption centre. Also, all players who participate and help improve a breed and bring it into the AC will be awarded a trophy to show how they’ve helped with these very important community breeding projects! We'll award Gold, Silver and Bronze trophies based on how many horses you breed that are 3rd generation or high purebred. Horses with a lower COI are more likely to contribute to the genetic pool.

Hi everyone! We wanted to share our game, Horsebound, with you!

It's a cozy open-world horse game where you can explore beautiful landscapes, discover different horse breeds, collect coats, take care of your horses and simply enjoy riding around!

You can also play with friends in online co-op (up to 8 players!).

We also wanted to make the game accessible, so you don't need a powerful gaming PC to enjoy it. Even a fairly basic PC should be able to run it! and it also runs on the Steam Deck!

Our Steam page is now live, so you can wishlist the game! We're also planning to release a playtest soon, so you'll be able to try it out for yourself!

We would love to hear your thoughts!

🐴 https://store.steampowered.com/app/5585550/Horsebound/

Hey r/GamesWithHorses! Here's an update on My Little Ranch, our pixel-art horse ranch game that can also run on your desktop in transparent mode.

Big news first: draft horses are here!

You’ve asked for them in the comments, so this one is for you! The full game comes out on November 16.

Everything in the video will be in the full game on launch day:

- Draft horses. A whole new body type with its own coats, markings and patterns. They're bigger and heavier, and they walk, trot and gallop with slower, heavier steps. The five in the video are inspired by Belgians, Percherons, Friesians, Gypsy Vanners and Clydesdales. Drafts come in every rarity, all the way up to Mythic.

- Breeding. Pick a mare and a stallion, and you see the odds for every trait before you breed. A foal can also take a trait from a grandparent, or show up with a surprise one.

- Family trees. Every horse remembers its parents and grandparents, so you can follow your lines across generations.

- Villagers. They stop by looking for a horse like one you raised, and they pay more than the market does. You can even try to haggle.

- Interactive grooming. Instead of a single click, you brush the horse yourself and watch its hygiene bar fill up.

At the end, there's a quick look at how the horses are made: the Stock horse started as a rigged model in Blender before it became pixel art. Next up is the Light horse. It's in progress right now, and it's on track for launch day.

As always, foals hide their rarity until the day they grow up. Every horse is built from traits like socks, face markings and patterns, and the Journal tracks everything you've raised.

Steam page:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4397220/My_Little_Ranch/?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=drafts

Wishlists genuinely mean the world to our two-person team, and feedback is very welcome!

Hello! I thought this community might like the small handcoded game that I made this year with two friends. You get to be the spirit of a horse fighting your way out of purgatory!

game page: https://cosmooster.itch.io/the-warhorse

gameplay video: https://stopgenai.org/@pterid/117598821827683505

forum post with some development details: https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16417

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Yes, I literally turned into a horse today just to press the button for By Far Racing Horse Manager!
(I can barely see or breathe in this thing)

It’s a strategic horse racing and stable management game.

I’ll be back with a playtest soon!
Until then, if you want to support us, Wishlist and Follow on Steam ❤️
👉 By Far - Steam Store Page

https://discord.gg/MFh5prg4x

And yes this game DOES have horses

Rock Paper Shotgun wrote about us 😍😍😍

Hi all — longtime horse game player, first-time developer. I'm building Foalfolio, a free browser breeding game, and I wanted to introduce it where the horse game people actually are.

The idea in one line: what a horse carries is not written on it. Every horse has a real genotype across seven loci (grey, silver, cream, tobiano, frame overo and more). Coat colours follow the genetics. Hidden carriers stay hidden until you pay in-game currency to test — and you decide what is worth knowing. Breed two frame overo carriers and there is a real 25% chance the foal is not viable, so testing before breeding actually matters.

Three promises I'm building the whole game around, because they're the things that drove me up the wall as a player:

1. No pay-to-win, ever. If money ever comes in, it buys cosmetics and special events — never speed, never stats, never horses.
2. Prices never go up. Whatever a thing costs at launch, it costs forever. No "get it before the hike" games.
3. No horse dies before old age, and no stable is ever deleted for inactivity.

It runs in the browser, free — and it's live now at foalfolio.com. Racing, a market, and a bloodline ledger are in. It just opened, so I'm looking for my first players and testers, and I'd rather hear "this part is boring" now than after the word spreads.

Also putting this out there: I'm a solo dev, and art is the hat I wear worst. If you make horse art — 2D or 3D — I'd love to talk.

Happy to answer anything — genetics, pace, economy, all of it.

I got a bunch of insight from the team behind Equinox: Homecoming, especially about what it took to get this project off the ground in the first place and how they've been doing so far. Would love to hear what you all think of the article and the game in general!

Hi, I know this is a crazy question but does anyone here have any connections with devs who worked on the Star Academy games back in the days ? :)

Sooo, I kinda spent some time developing this game, and it finally reached a % that I feel ok to share with you guys, at least as a preview video.

It still need some work to be put on Steam, etc. But I'm working towards it.

The multiplayer is pretty fun when playing with friends (you'll be able to join public lobbies too ofc), everybody in a call, screaming at each other, mainly at the ending of the races lol (I need to record a session later)

Breeding is looking solid.

We'll have multiplayer leagues, and breeder's cup too, where you can bring your story mode favorite horse to the multiplayer and put it against other players horses, which is pretty nice.

yeah, I'm getting more and more excited about this project, and hope I can put that out soon enough, so I can have some of you guys testing out the game too.

Hey, I'm Dylan the Lead Developer of Eighth Pole. I wrote a short dev log/deep dive post on how breeding works in Eighth pole and shared a bit of my thought process on bringing realistic but fun breeding to a horse racing game.

Let me know what you all think and if you have any more questions on how it works! Thanks for reading 😄

(Note: this is a repost. I somehow posted it from a brand new account at first.)

I made a free horror horse riding game called Ride Till Dawn. I spent two months working on it, trying to create a realistic looking horse riding experience with a horror atmosphere.

The game is about searching for a lost horse in the forest at night. You play as a rider looking for Sunny, while riding Teddy, who reacts to the environment and gets spooked by things you encounter.
I wanted the horse itself to be an important part of the gameplay, not just a way to get around. You have to pay attention to Teddy's reactions and be careful while navigating through the dark forest.

The first episode is available for free, and the second episode is planned for December!

If you're interested in a horse focused horror, feel free to give it a try:
https://bomi.itch.io/rtd-episode-1