Storm Horse Simulator

I'm unsure how this game has the positive review score it has at the time of writing this. The models are cute, if you can get past the eyes never blinking and being placed weirdly forward on the horses head (they're depicted with the vision of a predator instead of a horse. It's... a weird choice for a game targeting a community that loves horses). It's not just 'heavily inspired by' Spirit SotC, it's a direct ripoff but with lazy writing. The tutorial and the first horse you meet are the only 'herd building' you do (and you don't keep the horse from the tutorial) and you spend the rest of the game replaying the Spirit story but sloppy. You meet an indian-fill-in NPC, then you do just about everything with them. There's no real exploration or herd building. It's 'go from point a to point b and do this task. and talk to humans while you're at it.' I'm pretty sure the voices are AI and given how sloppy the writing is I wouldn't be surprised if the story was AI too. I don't recommend this game, even to kids. It's just... It feels more like a project a student game designer/ developer would make for a class. Not something that should have been published.

As another said, it feels like a very basic, lackluster student project than an actual game. There's no herd building other than like 10 minutes in the tutorial and it isn't a simulator of any kind. It's clearly a lazy ripoff of Spirit. There's no actual exploring, especially since the world is almost entirely empty. I spent the entire game just running from point A to point B and back again with no actual engagement or mechanics of any kind. The colors are a little too bright for my taste and I greatly dislike the horses talking to humans and understanding human concepts for some bizarre reason. I really don't recommend this game at all.

i didnt read previous reviews before buying but it uses AI which is really just lazy and unacceptable. aside from that, despite more than meeting pc requirements, its so laggy and the loadscreen between quests and areas literally takes like 5+ minutes which is an issue i dont experience even with super demanding horse games like LoK. im disappointed, to say the least

I'd looked forward to this but; 1) they used ai which immediately makes me not want anything to do with it - and i saw that afterwards because they slapped it as a note on the end of their description. 2) i had to restart the game from the beginning to try and fix a broken quest - so i had to play through the tutorial again 3) managed to make more progress only for the game to bug out and lock me in place before i could try to keep going with the game 4) there's no way to save the game??? i had to start over again from the beginning post-tutorial when i tabbed out of the game bc i had to go do something off-computer -greatly frustrated me. It had incredible potential, and the fact it was obviously based at least loosely on Spirit brought my attention to it in the first place but this is just disappointing. Also the father horse has normal horse eyes and they look great! but they playable character and every other one after that have uncanny bug eyes - like a pug.

i can play the tutorial perfectly fine and it was great but afterwards the game won't load

as decent bones to be a really fun game, but not even into the first part the horse in the pen is broken so is the mission.