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).

So I absolutely love this game and play it all the time (almost everyday) I do have some things that I do put quite like though… so first off (I’m surprised no one has said anything about this yet) sometimes I’ll be on a ride or in a show and I’ll be jumping and right after the jump, my horse just stops. I can’t move it around, or do anything. The only way to fix this is by leaving the show or trail ride and then coming back to it, which is completely unnecessary and tedious. Also, you have to by EVERYTHING with e-coins in the shop. There’s not even an option to use the regular money. And the only way to get the e-coins is by paying real money and you have to pay a lot to get a little amount of e-coin. For example: the lowest price is $3.99 for 50 E-COIN!!! that would only get you like, one thing if you’re looking for tack. Also, gestation takes too long. Even if you have the highest level on the breeding center, the gestation still takes like 2 1/2 days which isn’t very different from the original gestation period of like 4 1/2 days. one more thing, in showing, it is kind of annoying how there is only jumping. It would be cool if there was a dressage or a cross country option or even some western disciplines. Still, a very very very awesome game and I would appreciate if you could take my suggestions into consideration. Thank you for reading this!