Storm Horse Simulator

Build Your Wild Herd - it's what the description says. And you really do that. For about 10 minutes. And then you spend the rest of the game being a taxi for an Indian, riding from one point to another and kicking random NPCs. But what I didn’t like most was the fact that the horse talks to all the people it meets, understands warfare, negotiations and other stuff a horse should not care about. The game had great potential at the beginning, but unfortunately, it’s one the few horse games that I didn’t like and will never play again. Overall, the game reminds you very much of a story of a very famous horse. If you know, then you get it. Even the mare looks the same.

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 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.