Let's meet in Cologne: The Mane Quest will be attending Devcom & Gamescom 2025!
I’m happy to confirm that I’ll once again be attending the devcom and gamescom events in Cologne, Germany this Summer! I’ll be in town 17-22 August 2025, and more than happy to meet up for any horse game related chats.
Last year’s visit was incredibly worth it not only thanks to the talk I gave (which you should watch online, if you haven’t already!), but a ton of other super relevant and interesting conversations, some of which ended up leading to ongoing horse game consultation work.
My schedule is still quite open, so if you want to reserve some of my time for a hangout or a free horse game consulting sesh, do reach out to alice@themanequest.com! If you wanna stay up to date with my plans, following me on Bluesky is the best way to do so nowadays.
PikPok, the New Zealand studio behind Rival Stars Horse Racing, and Mattel, Inc have exciting news for horse game players today: Barbie Horse Ride and Rescue is a brand new horse game coming to mobile devices on June 16th 2026, with a release on PC and Switch 2 to follow in 2027.
Rival Stars Horse Racing is coming to consoles! In a press release today, developer and publisher PikPok announces that their game will be coming to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Xbox One on April 28, with a Nintendo Switch 2 version set to be coming soon.
The Legend of Khiimori, the Mongolian courier rider game developed by Aesir Interactive and published by Mindscape, releases into Early Access today. I worked on this game as Creative Producer during its early concept phase in 2023 and helped shape the game’s vision very early on.
Steam is currently hosting a themed sale called “Horse Fest”. There are so many new and exciting things happening in horse games right now that I can’t possibly provide in-depth coverage for all of them, but I want to chime in with some recommendations to the best of my knowledge nonetheless!
Kate Gray made a list of the Best Horses on the Nintendo Switch and has consulted me for additional inputs.
I’m publishing a game that’s being developed by two members of the TMQ community and is inspired by my childhood favorite game that nothing ever lived up to in the past 20+ years. Today, we’re launching a free public demo for everyone to try.
Fernhoof Grove: Riding Academy is finally available to wishlist on Steam. I consider it one of the more promising WIP indie projects in the horse game space at the moment, because while I haven’t played it yet, I find that the screenshots and videos shown so far give a rather more tangible impression of what the gameplay mechanics might look like.
Palia is an online multiplayer life sim game that I’ve had a somewhat interested eye on even without the horses, as someone who enjoys cozy life sim gameplay and prettily stylized character designs. It’s now given me an immediately convincing reason to take a closer look: The Royal Highlands Expansion, announced for release on May 12th, will add horses to the game.