Two Bavarian studios, Thogli Studios and Pixel Maniacs 🔜 ChromaGun 2 Release 12.2, have announced their new game projects around Halloween: A horse game homage, including horse expert The Mane Quest - Horses & Video Games, and a horror culinary quest respectively. gamesmarket.global/cozy-or-spooky…

💸 NEWS ARTICLE 💸 Animal Fest is live on Steam now, and lots of Horse Games are on Discount themanequest.com/blog/2025/11/1…

I for one think this is the entirely correct level of detail 😇

a lot of horse games either force the player to groom/brush their horses outright, or make it a completely optional bonus thing. In Horses of Hoofprint Bay, not brushing your horse before you ride it can lead to saddle sores, and not picking its hooves can lead to abscesses.

"realism" in game mechanics isn't always better, but sometimes giving the player somewhat realistic consequences for the choices they make is actually the best and most fun way of motivating the player to engage with a mechanic! Wishlist if you like! store.steampowered.com/app/3727090/Ho…

😍NEW ARTICLE 😍Review: The Ranch of Rivershine – An Almost Perfect Horse Game and What We can Learn from it themanequest.com/blog/2025/11/1…

A great example of how community can replace a marketing budget by The Mane Quest - Horses & Video Games Horses of Hoofprint Bay hit 6300+ wishlists in 3 weeks. No press, no demo, no ads. Just two devs and a focused horse-game community. Their ecosystem: • Discord 1.6k • FB group 40k • Subreddit

hey kids wanna see some more WIP horse game footage

A lot of horse games (and movies, for that matter) show horses constantly confined to single stalls. In reality, horses are very social animals that want to live in a herd and need to move around a lot! In Horses of Hoofprint Bay, horses have a shared barn & paddock instead 🥰

and of course, please consider adding Horses of Hoofprint Bay to your wishlist if you want to support a bunch of horse girls making a hand-drawn horsie game store.steampowered.com/app/3727090/Ho…

Thogli Studios and The Mane Quest - Horses & Video Games have teamed up for Horses of Hoofprint Bay to bring back good, retro-inspired horse games. We interviewed the team behind the FFF Bayern funded project about their ambitions and how they met. gamesmarket.global/these-german-s…

NEW ARTICLE: Tiny Horse Game Jam #2 – Here’s 21 (!) Brand New Innovative Little Horse Games to Try for Free themanequest.com/blog/2025/12/2…

come and support a whole bunch of independent horse game developers by checking out their lovely little games

NEW ARTICLE: 2025 in Review – Website Stats, Highlights and Musings themanequest.com/blog/2025/12/2…

if this is the only platform you follow me on you probably missed out on half the cool shit I did this year, so please find a recap on TMQ 🥰

NEW ARTICLE: Living Creatures vs Meat Motorcycles – How to Make Horses in Games Feel Alive themanequest.com/blog/2026/1/9/…

NEWS ARTICLE: Horses 2025 is Out Now and Unsurprisingly Looks Nothing Like Its Announcement Trailer themanequest.com/blog/2026/1/18…

NEW ARTICLE: Scams, Asset Flips, and Naive Amateurs: The Horse Girl's Guide to Recognizing which Games are Worth Supporting themanequest.com/blog/2026/1/20…

In our game, horses don't have a health bar, but they get specific conditions depending on what you (care, feed, training etc.) Cuts and abrasions can happen during training, or even just in pasture, but they're easy to treat and don't prevent your horse from working that day

NEWS ARTICLE: You can now Wishlist Fernhoof Grove: Riding Academy on Steam themanequest.com/blog/2026/2/14…