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Horse Farm

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48%Game Brain Score
graphics, music
monetization, gameplay
48% User Score Based on 162 reviews

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Horse Farm is a single player and multiplayer casual city builder game with a economy theme. It was developed by Independent Arts Software and was released on July 16, 2018. It received neutral reviews from players.

Horse Farm - Create your own enchanting horse ranch with cute horses!

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48%
Audience ScoreBased on 162 reviews
graphics4 positive mentions
monetization3 negative mentions
  • Charming and relaxing horse farm simulation with cute graphics and detailed horse care mechanics.
  • Engaging for horse lovers and casual players who enjoy slow-paced, management style gameplay.
  • Free to play with reasonable accessibility; includes customization and community features.
  • Progression becomes painfully slow and expensive at higher levels, strongly pushing for real-money microtransactions.
  • Repetitive and grind-heavy gameplay with frustrating game economy balance, making advancement difficult without purchases.
  • The game has intrusive ads, forced tutorials, technical errors, and UI issues, especially as a mobile port on PC.
  • graphics
    13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's graphics are widely praised for their colorful, charming, and cute cartoonish style with painterly details that enhance immersion and appeal. Despite some criticism related to mobile game limitations and microtransactions, users appreciate the detailed and lovingly crafted visuals, especially the realistic horse designs. Overall, the graphics significantly contribute to the game's engaging and pleasant atmosphere.

    • “The graphics are colorful and vibrant, with a charming, cartoonish style that is both appealing and suitable for the game's theme.”
    • “The graphics of the game is really great considering it's free; you can really tell that the graphic designer loves their job. The details blow me away every time I open the game back up. They did an incredible job on the horses; it's almost like they're real!”
    • “Personally, I think the graphics are cute and have a sort of painterly style.”
    • “Now, the game is quite cute graphics-wise, and the tutorial is very straightforward - although incredibly hand-holding, which can get really tiring really quickly.”
    • “It is suffering from exactly the same issues that a mobile game suffers (microtransactions, poor graphics, etc.).”
    • “Graphic is decent.”
  • monetization
    13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The monetization in this free-to-play horse farm game heavily relies on microtransactions and ads, which many users find intrusive and feel forced to engage with to progress. While understandable that developers need to earn revenue, the prominence of in-app purchases and slow progression without spending real money detracts from the overall experience, leading some to prefer other similar games without such monetization schemes.

    • “As a free-to-play game, Horse Farm does include in-app purchases.”
    • “There are more fun and better horse farm games on Steam, without any kind of in-app purchases.”
    • “I understand a lot of these games have microtransactions, but when you have to pay this amount to little reward it feels like a scam.”
    • “And another downside is that unless you have a steady flow of guests and customers coming in, you won't be earning any money, unless you want to waste your real money on the microtransactions to buy more rubies for speeding your production and speeding up the wait time for customers to come in.”
    • “I know the game is free to play, and the developers should get paid, but it feels like forced in-app purchases and that's not my favorite.”
  • gameplay
    12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay of the horse farm game is accessible and visually appealing, with straightforward mechanics suitable for all ages. However, some players find it grindy, repetitive, and overly reliant on in-app purchases, leading to a stale experience after a few hours. The horse show feature, intended as a highlight, has been criticized as disappointing.

    • “The core gameplay of horse farm revolves around building and managing your own horse farm.”
    • “The game mechanics are straightforward and easy to grasp, making it accessible for players of all ages.”
    • “With its combination of accessible gameplay, beautiful design, and engaging community features, it is a game that truly shines.”
    • “I wanted to like this since I love horses, but it's super grindy with a boring gameplay loop.”
    • “A lot of mechanics: buying other horses, buying flowers, buying roofing or walls, upgrading or speeding up things are bought exclusively with gems/diamonds and pretty much everything costs even more.”
    • “No real gameplay except click and wait.”
  • grinding
    6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game features a slow-paced, grind-heavy progression with low cash rewards, leading to repetitive and tedious gameplay that may appeal only to patient players who enjoy horse care. Forced tutorials and pay-to-progress elements further hinder the experience, making the grinding feel frustrating and drawn out.

    • “You make very little cash, so you can expect to spend a lot of time grinding money.”
    • “I wanted to like this since I love horses, but it's super grindy with a boring gameplay loop.”
    • “By design, the game comes to a grinding halt at some point, unless one spends large amounts of real money to progress.”
  • story
    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The story progression is often hindered by costly in-game items and lengthy quests, making it difficult to advance quickly. Players find missions time-consuming with no option to cancel, leading to financial strain despite rewards from completing quests and leveling up. This creates a somewhat slow and frustrating pacing within the narrative experience.

    • “The prices in-game for buildings, etc., take forever to be able to afford - you get 1000 dollars if you do the big quests, but those take ages to finish!”
    • “You can't cancel a mission to get a new one, and horses you sell aren't even worth as much as they cost to breed and train.”
    • “I was mindlessly following the tutorials and trying to complete the quests when I suddenly found myself low on money and rubies, which are used to buy and unlock special items.”
  • music
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The music features pleasant background tracks that, along with realistic sound effects, effectively complement the visuals and enhance the game's immersive atmosphere.

    • “The sound design complements the visuals well, with pleasant background music and realistic sound effects that enhance the immersive experience.”
  • atmosphere
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The atmosphere is praised for its serene and immersive quality, enhanced by realistic sounds like neighing horses, rustling hay, and countryside ambiance.

    • “The neighing of horses, the rustling of hay, and the ambient sounds of the countryside contribute to a serene and enjoyable atmosphere.”
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Horse Farm is a casual city builder game with economy theme.

Horse Farm is available on Nintendo Switch, PC, Phone, iPad and others.

On average players spend around 4 hours playing Horse Farm.

Horse Farm was released on July 16, 2018.

Horse Farm was developed by Independent Arts Software.

Horse Farm has received neutral reviews from players. Most players liked Horse Farm for its graphics but disliked it for its monetization.

Horse Farm is a single player game with multiplayer and local co-op support.

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