There are Four New Horse Games on PC and Consoles in 2022

For a long time, new horse game options for PC and Console players have been few and far between. In Fall 2022 however, our niche genre has gotten a whooping four new releases – well, one of them has been out for a few months actually, but since I haven’t covered it yet and have not seen anyone else talk about it much, I’m adding it anyway. 

Full reviews for the first three of these games may be coming at some point in the future, but my regular readers will know I’m notoriously slow with those since they are very time-consuming. For now, let’s have a quick look at what each of these games offer: 

Horse Club™ Adventures 2: Hazelwood Stories

A sequel to 2019’s Horse Club Adventures, which I liked relatively well despite some noticeable shortcomings and limitations. The sequel offers new areas to explore and a new story, and expands on what you can do with your horses by adding quick-time style dressage, Western themed pole bending races and animal herding, in addition to the more common obstacle races. 

Horse care minigames and elaborate customization options are back, this time with a photo mode for capturing your creative tack and clothing combos. 

Horse Club Adventures 2 was developed and published by Wild River Games, who already made the previous installation in the series. 

Horse Club™ Adventures 2: Hazelwood Stories is out on Steam, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.

My Life: Riding Stables 3

Here at TMQ we’re quite used to horse games having weird and confusing titles, and yet this one takes the cake: With this newest iteration we’ve gone from “My Riding Stables X: Subtitle” to “My Life: Riding Stables 3” which is a weird mash-up of the initial “My Riding Stables: Life With Horses” title and the numbering of its sequel. The German title for this game is “Wendy - Meine Pferdewelt”. Wendy is a known IP among German-speaking horse girls as a magazine and comic, but considering the international title choices I’m going to assume the connection to the IP in the game itself is minimal.  

The publisher behind this is the Markt + Technik Verlag, who previously financed and published the My Riding Stables games, with My Riding Stables 2: A New Adventure being the most recent. 

Unlike earlier games in the series however, this iteration was developed by Korion Interactive – with whom I’m in contact and from whom you’ll be hearing more Soon™. 

Feature-wise, the game sounds similar to its predecessors: this time with more horse breeds and more equestrian disciplines, but without the horse breeding or guest house mechanics. The horses use the popular Horse Animset Pro with all its flaws, but the UI and levels look competently designed at a glance. 

Knowing that Korion followed TMQ and my writing during the development, I’m intrigued to see what details this game may have improved over the earlier titles in the series, even under significant time and budget constraints. 

My Life: Riding Stables 3 is out on Steam, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch.

Bibi & Tina - New Adventures with Horses

I’m cheating by including this – it’s actually been available since July 2022 on Steam and since April on consoles. But since it has 2 whole user reviews on Steam so far, I’m guessing that’s news for many of my readers, so here we go. 

The latest Bibi & Tina game also comes from Markt + Technik and Korion Interactive (see above). After Bibi & Tina: Adventures with Horses (2018) and Bibi & Tina at the horse farm (2019), this year’s iteration gives off overall similar vibes, but stands out with a few novelties such as including Bibi Blocksberg’s magic abilities for the first time, and including some voice actors from the audio drama series. 

The feature list advertises grooming, hoof care, feeding and dress-up as minigames and as well as missions, racing and exploration. Much like My Life: Riding Stables 3, I’m primarily interested to see what improvements were made to the game series by a new team who’s familiar with TMQ and tried to adapt some feedback. 

Bibi & Tina: New Adventures with Horses is out on Steam, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch.

Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch

DISCLAIMER: This is “my” game: I’m the Creative Producer on this project at dev studio Aesir Interactive – meaning, I’ve managed and overseen the project for the past year, with some consultation work before that. 

Horse Tales was released by publisher Microids and developer Aesir Interactive in November 2022.

The game’s reception so far has been mixed, with strong opinions both from players who enjoy the game and those who expected something else from it, but the Steam review ratio has been slowly creeping upward with our ongoing bugfixing efforts. 

Horse Tales is the only game on this list that doesn’t just offer horse care and riding, but has horses with different stats and personality traits, horse breeding with mostly realistic genetic inheritance, and lets the player collect resources and building blueprints to expand their home estate. Unlike the direct competition above, it uses custom-made horse animations and models. 

Horse Tales is not the be-all end-all to the horse game genre, of course. Unfortunately, my own personal involvement and excitement is not enough to quadruple a game’s budget and make all its flaws go away, much as we’d all appreciate that. I very much recommend giving it a try, especially if you’re interested in diving deeper into breeding and estate optimization. But since I can’t give an unbiased recommendation, you can always have a look at some of the game’s Steam reviews to find out more about what people like and dislike about it! 

Aesir also just announced further fixes and some commonly asked-for improvements like additional camera settings and fast-travel between home bases, find more info on that in this Steam Forum post.

Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch is out on Steam, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch. I work for its developer Aesir Interactive. 

Which of these games have you already tried and how do they compare? Let us know in the comments!