Horse Reality – Browser-Based Horse Breeding Simulator

Posted on August 26, 2025 by Aywren

I’m always on the lookout for new horse games, so when I discovered Horse Reality last year, I’ve been playing it ever since. While it is primarily a free to play browser-based game, it does look like a Steam app version is also in development – though with a release date of 2028.

Looking at my game profile, I actually started playing this game almost a year ago – on August 30, 2024. I’m surprised I’ve continued to play this consistently as I have. I can say I’ve put some time into it… mostly because this game’s slow pace requires a lot of time.

Also, unlike other horse games I’ve played, if you leave your account for a while, your horses will continue to age without you, and will eventually pass away. So, should you leave your stables and return later, you’ll return to an empty stable and will have to rebuild from the start again.

This is one thing I’m not so fond of, to be honest. But it also has to do with just how very slow moving this game is. I’ve played a lot of horse games, and most of them provide some way of speed training and aging your horses. Horse Reality does not.

Your horse ages one year in 16 real life days, with a horse aging one month every 32 hours. You can speed this up, but it requires currency usually purchased with real money (DP – Delta Points). Horse pregnancy lasts for 13.5 - 17 days, randomly depending, with no way to speed this up, even if you age the mare. Horses are considered adults at the age of 3 years, which takes about 1.5 months of RL time to pass – this seems to be the period of time people skip through using Delta Points.

It’s… slow. Very, very slow.

This is good on one hand. It prevents things like what you see at Howrse where there are teams of trainers just pumping RL currency into speed-breeding horses 24/7. Any horse you breed was already irrelevant months ago, and keeping up with the big boys means either gaming the system or putting RL money into the game. It just feels like nothing you can do in a game like that is worthwhile.

The down side to this is… it’s so very slow. I just wish there was some middle ground, I suppose.

It’s slow and I still don’t feel like I can breed any horses that are particularly relevant or desired. It’s hard to break into winning horse conformation shows. It’s very hard to win competitions unless you build a comp team, choose a lesser-run discipline for your breed, and pray no one else starts dumping their horses into your races to take your wins.

At least, with Howrse, you had a chance at winning some races, mostly due to the fact that races were separated into categories that pitted you against other horses of a similar skill level. Nothing like that exists in Horse Reality. I ended up giving up on competing after running a few comp teams to build up a decent amount of money in my bank.

Making money is another tough spot for this game. Either you have it and you can keep making it, or you don’t and you struggle with earning much more beyond doing jobs and daily interest at the bank. I’ve rarely made much from studding out my stallions or selling my stock on the market. Even after a year of playing the game pretty consistently, I feel like I don’t know what I should be focusing on that’s meaningful to me in the game.

So why do I stick around?

The horse artwork is absolutely gorgeous, for one. They are currently reworking a number of breed artwork, though I didn’t see anything particularly wrong with the existing art.

The number of breeds you can get into is also very nice (though there is no cross-breeding between breeds in the game). They keep adding breeds to the game, which is nice to see.

Breeding for genetics is also realistic and satisfying – I love to breed for color and some of the horses I’ve bred have been stunning. Really, breeding for genetics is a major draw for me in any horse game.

It’s a pretty active horse game community, as well. Though the bigger and older players absolutely do overshadow the new folks in terms of haves and have nots.

Overall, I’d only suggest folks who are dedicated and big on realistic horse breeding to try this game out. I know I sounded fairly negative – which was not what I intended to do when I set out to write this post – but while the game doesn’t require a huge time commitment day by day (unless you train up all your horses like I do), it requires a long-term time commitment to see anything through.

And in writing all this, I’m now questioning again why I am still playing. Darn that lovely horse artwork and great genetic breeding. I’m sadly just too attached to some of the horses in my stables, I suppose.

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