Equestrian the Game 4+

I love the game, but there’s a few issues that keep it from getting 5 stars. The biggest issue is that you don’t really earn coins. Maybe 2 a day if you log in daily and it happens to be your reward. Everything in the shop requires coins to buy. There’s no options to use money, which is what you earn from showing and training. Coins have to be bought with real money, and they’re way over priced. The cheapest option is $3.99 for 50 coins, which will maybe get you two things from the shop (if you’re shopping for the cheaper items). Also, training is really slow. It’s faster to ride your horse on the trails and train them yourself, but there’s some stats you can’t really train that way. I’m glad they added breeding, but it would be nice if 1: gestation didn’t take so long, because you can’t use your mare while she’s in that gestation period, and 2: they would label the genes so you know what they are. I mostly understand the color genes, because I do study equine genetics for fun, but there are some I’ve never seen before and can’t find when I look them up. Also with the personality genes not being labeled, I have no idea what they are or what I’m breeding into the foal.

As the game develops and they add on I’d like to see these points fixed, and I’d like to see more events other than just jumping. A breed expansion would also be nice, but I’d rather these be fixed before adding more breeds.

This is easily one of the best horse games I’ve played. Hands down the best in terms of horse personality mechanics, controls, attention to detail including different gaits and training them. The mentality mechanic and how it influences how tolerant your horse is to new or scary things as well as refusals is just *chef’s kiss*. Lots of really unique things in this game that simulate riding to a degree I have not seen in other games.

I would like to see them add some different show types (currently only jumping available) but I have no doubt they are working on that since you can train dressage and do moves like piaffe. For now the variety of activities you can do on the trail rides via trials helps mix things up a little bit. Also looking forward to more horse breeds (more drafts like shires!), but they have a solid base set so far. Graphics could be just a tad better in terms of some of the environments (maybe a higher quality setting), and the rider’s hair could use a little work, but the horses look absolutely fantastic and the rest of the rider model looks pretty darn good as well.

Others have mentioned that the monetization could be improved and I agree. There should be at least some basic tack options that can be bought with cash won from events instead of the gold coins (premium currency which I have not found a way to earn in game yet, but I’ve heard it’s extremely limited).

Alright! Love the game; probably one of the best horse games I’ve ever played. But I have a suggestion that should be added, and I’m sure other people would like it to be added as well!

So, I think that in she shop there should be a place to try on tack and accessories on your horse and person, like, before you buy them, so you can see what the whole set looks like before you buy it, you know? Let me give some more context:
So, in the shop, there could be a button you can press along the lines of “TRY-ON MODE” or something like that. You press it, and it takes you to just a place where you can select one of your horses, your person, and it’ll have a list of all the tack and accessories for your horse, and clothes and accessories for your person in the shop currently. You press one, you pick the color, and it’ll show up on your horse/person so you can see what it looks like! And everything will stay on so you can see what a whole set from, for example, BLVCK looks like on your horse and rider. It could also add up the price of everything you’ve equipped onto your horse/rider so if you were to buy everything, you could just press a button and it would buy everything! Just a way of being able to try things on your horse/rider before you buy them, just so you know that you absolutely like it and won’t waste your precious E-Coins😂 Just a suggestion ETG, but PLEASE CONSIDER!