Horse Shelter 2022 (not related to the Horse DLC for Animal Shelter mentioned above!) was first announced in late 2020 (then as Horse Shelter 2021) and has since been drip-feeding its followers the occasional dev log while repeatedly delaying the expected release date. Seeing the announcement for My Horse: Bonded Spirits immediately reminded me of another supposedly upcoming horse with a very similar-looking feature list. PlayWay SA appears to have a history of announcing games under subsidiaries and labels in order to obfuscate just how many games they have in development.ĮDIT: A developer from the Games Incubator Discord has confirmed that My Horse: Bonded Spirits is being made by the same development team as Animal Shelter. Since Games Incubator and PlayWay SA work with different dev teams and freelancers however, it’s hard to guess whether anyone the team making My Horse: Bonded Spirits has actual overlap with any of the aforementioned titles. Those are again based on HAP, and rather limited in their interactions. * House Flipper, incidentally, has just received a Farm Flipper DLC, which includes horses. The fact that horse halters are called “leading harness” in the game doesn’t exactly inspire confidence that anyone behind this has equestrian knowledge to lean on. The Horse Shelter DLC looks overall unappealing to me thanks to Mixed (46% positive) reviews, HAP-animations and a rather jarring user interface. Games Incubator have previously forayed into the horse game niche with a Horse DLC to their Animal Shelter simulation game. Games Incubator is a Subsidiary of PlayWay SA, one of the biggest game publishers in Poland and the investor behind a variety of highly successful simulator games, including House Flipper*. It sounds like a very “Quantity over Quality” approach at first glance, but many of Games Incubator’s products average positive reviews, with the top titles like Car Mechanic sporting an impressive 18’000 positive reviews. Steam lists the developer and Publisher as Games Incubator: A company with supposedly 92 Steam games in their portfolio, though many of these are actually bundles of individual titles in every combination. After some further investigation into the game’s publisher, I have serious doubts about whether the final game will look anything like this trailer however. On the plus side though, there’s definitely plenty of room for a new barn management simulator style game with a realistic art style, and I figured I’d happily follow this for more information. At first glance I was skeptical about this coming out of nowhere, I’m not loving the generic title and I would say that once again the environments look a lot better than the horses themselves. Other features appear to include repair work, jumping competitions, and bonding with the horse, though it’s again not quite clear yet how the latter will actually play out in gameplay.Īll in all the trailer definitely looks like “a horse game”. There’s not enough horse animation shown for me to really judge the quality, but apart from a wonky-looking step forward at 0:14 I also don’t see any egregious missteps yet. We don’t see the horse animation in detail yet, but I’m fairly confident that the game is not using the ever-present Horse Animset Pro pack, which I’m always happy about. The announcement trailer features a handful of custom-animated (and possibly pre-rendered?) clips that I assume don’t represent actual live gameplay.
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