My Life: Riding Stables 3

Looks pretty, but ugly animations. There's no reason to buy new horses, the game gets boring, and terrible controls and camera

It's not a *great* game or anything, but it's a huge improvement over the last two entries in the My Riding Stables series. Pros: - competent gameloop and overall user experience - satisfying training and competition progress - consistently pretty environments - very accessible for young players - decently satisfying horse care (feeding, grooming, hoofpicking, workload balance) - a lot of variety in competitions/race courses Cons - mediocre horse animation (uses Horse Animset Pro) - weirdly proportioned main character models, they're kind of uncanny - late game balancing is off - some super basic horse mistakes, like that you can't make a proper bay or buckskin horse because they don't have black points I played through the game in about 7h, the rest of my logged time was spent recording additional gameplay footage for my review. Full review with a lot more info here: https://www.themanequest.com/blog/2025/3/1/review-my-life-riding-stables-3-is-a-vast-improvement-over-its-predecessors-held-back-by-store-bought-horse-animation-and-bad-balancing

constant crashes

Overall I like the game. The map is significant, and I like the art style they are going for here. This isn't the game for people who like a deep story, because there isn't a story there to begin with. But for people like me, that want a relaxing, fun horse game, it's spot on. I wish there were more to the game tho, like breeding and a reason to have more than one horse. The competitions are variable, which is nice. However, the show jumping part of this game is so wonky, you can get a perfect jump when you obviously jump through the pole or fail when you are nowhere near hitting the pole. The camera struggles to keep up in some of the competitions as well, but overall the steering and camera issue is manageable. It's one of the better horse games out there, but it's certainly not the best. I would recommend getting it at a sale tho, it's not worth the full price.

So the game has its pros and cons. The horses have pretty decent animations, a few breed options, the environment is pretty, and the game runs well. I can easily run it on the high setting with no lag and my laptop fans aren't blasting (I am on an Acer Nitro 5 for reference). The start of the tutorial is pretty thorough and makes sense, but then it sort of just stops before I felt it should have. I had to figure out where the next thing was to prompt a tutorial for that part. Your horse is also horrendously slow in the beginning and can only sprint for a few seconds at a time with a several second cooldown. The gallop animation looks like its in slow motion due to how slow it is. I also found the camera is way too sensitive and moves way too much for just a slight mouse movement which can be nauseating. Another important thing to note is the grind. My god, it just feels like grinding to train your horse from the moment you start and there is so many small barriers that just make it annoying. There is your horse's workload, and you can't make it too high, but it gets high from only a few things. If you want to bring it back down, you have to end the day and start a new day. But doi…

not worth the money they charge for this game.. and it has a crashing problem.