The Mane Quest 🐴🎮 Horses in Video Games 🎮🐴

I suppose now is as good of a time as any to resurface this revelatory podcast episode I did (ft @themanequest.com)

Between consultation work, publishing work, and a few personal matters taking up time and energy, I'm afraid the TMQ website is a bit quiet at the moment! Rest assured that I'll be back to horseposting whenever I have air to breathe. Thank you all for your patience and understanding 😊💖

NEW ARTICLE: New Horse Game: Bibi & Tina – Ready, Set, Ride! is Out Now for Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox and PC www.themanequest.com/blog/2026/9/...

I was invited to a radio show and podcast called Horses in the Morning! Find the full episode right here including a breakdown of where to find my segment: horseradionetwork.com/2026/09/hors...

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Release date! 🐎🎉 It's been amazing watching Horses of Hoofprint Bay grow, and I'm incredibly proud to have contributed to bringing the game to life on the audio side. 50,000+ wishlists and counting! 💚 @thoglistudios.com @themanequest.com

Let‘s see everybody‘s #HoHBHorse 😍 Come grab your postcard in gamescom hall 10.2!!

watch out Rockstar

We'll drop a release date reveal trailer for Horses of Hoofprint Bay in a bit over 2 hours, hope you're ready 🥰

I for one welcome the idea of an urban cyberpunk horse racing game

A lot of good news in our latest Dev Update on Steam! We're thrilled to confirm a bunch of cool new features in Horses of Hoofprint Bay, including Desensitization Training, Horse Personalities and Cross Country Competitions. Head over to Steam to learn more 👇 store.steampowered.com/news/app/372...

take it from a commenter on the Vintage Story subreddit: "That might be the most niche reason I've ever seen for someone to play games, but it was a surprisingly thorough review"

Over the past six months or so, I have lost my mind and heart to Vintage Story and the horses are really far from the main reason for it but they *are* what inspired me to pick the game up for review purposes. And then somehow, 300h of playtime.

⛏️🐴NEW ARTICLE 🐴⛏️ Not Quite A Review: I need to talk about Vintage Story www.themanequest.com/blog/2026/8/...

a few years ago, I interviewed @thepinkcurator.bsky.social on TMQ to lament the lack of good chariot racing games. This week, a mobile game dev reaches out to tell me that article struck a chord with them and they made a good chariot racing game 🥹💖

Horses of Hoofprint Bay has cracked 50'000 Wishlists on Steam🥳🥳🥳 Thank you all so much for your support and excitement. Our game is making a ton of important progress right now with exciting new features, and we can't wait to share them with all of you 🥰🥰🥰

🐎NEWS ARTICLE 🐎Game Announcement: Is Chariot Rivals the Chariot Racing Experience We’ve Been Waiting For? www.themanequest.com/blog/2026/7/...

Omg look people, we got a real article! Thanks for the kind words and we promise, we are going to finish this game! Poniesneed to be released into the wild after all, right?

excellent news: the foals can walk now. and trot. and get the zoomies

choo choo get on the announcement wishlist train everyone!!

this game's creature animation has gone viral on tiktok and insta a few times - I will always remain skeptical of big beginner teams with ambitious scopes, but I *do* like quite a bit of where they're going with this and I think their answers sound quite competent

🐎 NEW ARTICLE 🐎 Game Announcement and Developer Q&A: Will Driftborn fill the Alicia-Online-Shaped Hole in Your Heart? www.themanequest.com/blog/2026/7/...

RECOMMENDED ARTICLE: Bringing ‘Horses Of Hoofprint Bay’ To Life – Interview with Thogli Studios and The Mane Quest by Video Game Town www.themanequest.com/blog/2026/7/...

The HORSE CLUB Ride West AMA is now live on reddit! Make sure to head over there and ask your questions! www.reddit.com/r/GamesWithH...

Good news: we've added face markings for the horses to our hand-drawn horse game 😍😍 Learn more about how we did it and why it was more complicated than you'd think 👇 Is this cool or what?? If this post gets 100 reposts, we'll drop a handful of beta keys in the comments 👀

Here's another game y'all should be keeping an eye on if you aren't already!!

Who will we see there? 😍

Here's a tiny horse game you should keep an eye on 👀

Have you checked out the new Horse Club game yet? 👀 Considering the previous games, I expect this to be a really solid, kid-friendly, story-based horse adventure, and I'm excited about some of the changes made since Horse Club Adventures 2! More info: www.themanequest.com/blog/2026/6/...

OH LOOK AT THAT it's another new horse game (brand new reveal today!) that I got to do consultation work on 😱

🎉NEW ARTICLE🎉 Horses Deserve to be Main Characters” – Game Announcement & Developer Insight for HORSE CLUB: Ride West www.themanequest.com/blog/2026/6/...

ICYMI, I do quite a bit of horse game content on tiktok these days! Would you like me to crosspost that content to bsky as well? (It's also up on instagram reels)

This is also useful for people making non-horsey games

I'm so tired of newbie horse game devs not managing to follow basic best practices for game marketing that I put together a horse game specific guide enjoy

📢NEW ARTICLE📢Horse Game Marketing 101 – The Do's and Don'ts of Sharing Your Passion Projects with People www.themanequest.com/blog/2026/6/...

New Horse Game out today! 🎉🎉🎉 Barbie Horse Ride & Rescue is now available on iOS and Android globally! I'm thrilled I got to do consulting work on this, and I'm excited to see what people think 🥰

Blackboard Ponies, one of the games that emerged from the Tiny Horse Game Jam last year, is coming to Steam!! 🎉🎉🎉

#Exclusive: Horses of Hoofprint Bay publisher @themanequest.com is leading us through some exclusive data insights of @thoglistudios.com massively successful game demo and wishlist campaign. www.gamesmarket.global/numbers-insi...

We're getting some comments asking what the day limit will be for the full game, so we'll say this here for everyone: There will NOT be a Day Limit in the full game 😄 You will eventually run out of upgrades and quests and new competitions and trail rides, but your playtime is UNLIMITED 💖

What a milestone for the team! 💚🐎 Congratulations to @thoglistudios.com and @themanequest.com on being featured in the Women-Led Games Showcase. Proud to be part of the journey and excited for everything that's still to come.

Happy Pride Month!! In Hoofprint Bay, Love is Love and we radically support everyone on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum! To celebrate, we asked our community to show us their best custom color Pride Ponies created in the HoHB Demo, and we LOVE how these are turning out! 😍

We got too many good ones not to share another batch:

NEWS ARTICLE: Champions Stable: Equestrian Dynasty is a Horse Racing Management Game, now Looking for Playtesters! www.themanequest.com/blog/2026/5/...

We've opened up our Beta Playtest Registration on Steam! You can sign up directly on our Steam Page, but please read our news post for all relevant info on this 🙏 We expect a LOT of signups, and we only need a small number of testers to keep things manageable store.steampowered.com/news/app/372...

this list has been used to send keys and advance access to creators for Horses of Hoofprint Bay, The Legend of Khiimori, Equinox Homecoming and more. We'll definitely use it again for outreach before the HoHB release. There may well be other opportunities through this channel until then. Sign up! 🙏

We're adding Leopard coat patterns to Horses of Hoofprint Bay, here's a first glimpse at how they'll look 🥰💖 (and that weird texture at the end is the only thing we had to actually draw for it!)

Way to go @thoglistudios.com & @themanequest.com! 📈🔥🥳 Huge congrats on the incredible momentum. 👏 Proud to have contributed to the demo.