My game time: 2,5 hours
Info:
In this game, you can experience what it’s like to run your very own horse farm. Take good care of your horses and earn their trust and affection. You can practice and compete in horse shows and tournaments, and you can also breed horses. Spend your money wisely, make good decisions and train your horses to become world-class champions. (Old Games Download).
You can go on trail rides with your horse and also do orienteering and collect herbs etc. The trail rides are basically just for fun. There are no objectives to accomplish in them. The first orienteering and ride went smoothly, but the next
ones were extremely laggy all of a sudden, so it was pretty much impossible to play. Putting
the graphics on the lowest setting made it somehow playable again.
You can build and update buildings and buy land, and one of the most important things is to upgrade the parking lot so you could get horse transportation, I didn't accomplish it during the time I played this game.
The game ended for me when my horse completely disappeared.
It just didn’t excist anymore. It’s possible that the horse dies if health gets too
low, but that wasn’t my case, my horse’s health was full and boof, it’s gone. And I don’t have enough credit to update the parking lot and other buildings to get
horse transport to buy a new horse. And there's no way to make more credit without the
horse. So I gave up, I won’t start a new game from zero, because it took already 2,5 hours to get to this point and the game didn't really progress at all, it was just repeating things.
Basic controls: WASD & space, mouse
Ratings:
Overall rating 2/5
Graphics 2,5/5
Sounds
Music 4/5
Sound effects 2/5
Controls 5/5
Notices:
+While riding, you can change the angle and turn the view around with arrows.
+You can buy martingales and blankets, and many horse games don't have that.
+You actually need to warm up the horse when riding, you can’t go full speed at the beginning of the ride. This adds up realistic aspect to the game.
-The game is in Swedish.
-You can’t open the map while riding, I needed to take a photo of it to be able to find all orienteering checkpoints.
-To progress in this game takes a long time.
-The riding is pretty laggy especially when it loads the graphics.
-If you fell down a mountain or go too deep in the water the ride ends and you are transported back to the stable because your horse was harmed. Pretty annoying in such a laggy game.
Gameplay screenshots:
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| Creating a character. You can choose every day and riding clothes separately. |
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| The horse and its stall. You can clean the stall, groom and clean hooves, feed and give water, equip the horse, go riding, call the vet, and so on. |
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| The city. There you can buy more horses, go to the farrier, shop and competitions, etc. (but only if you have updated your buildings and gotten the horse transport). |
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| The shop. You can buy care items, food, equipment, etc. A fun addition is leg wraps, martingales, blankets, lunge line, and a whip. |
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| Equipped horse. |
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| Riding. |
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| Good thing while riding is that you can actually change the angle. |
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| You can ride on fields, forests, and beaches. |
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| The hoove cleaning mechanics are nice and simple. |
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| First orienteering mission. |
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| Visiting the vet. |
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| Horse market. There are several horses to choose from. |
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| The Garden house is the "headquarters", where your character lives and you can track your expenses, etc. |
Is it worth playing?
In my experience, no. A Very slow-paced game that gets repetitive very easily. Uses simple game mechanics but it's still pretty complicated to get into. Maybe it wouldn't be so complicated if it was in English (although I've studied Swedish for 6 years, it was hard to understand the complicated and old-fashioned words the game uses).
