Horses in Games

Silence Suzuka races for her life to escape the glue factory in the pouring rain.

(UmaMusume: Pretty Derby, 2025, PC)

Mistake on the date, this is actually from 1994

An intimidating audience member in Ryo's stage watches the fight. This game is extremely difficult even on the lowest difficulty settings. It would be easy for the horse though. Art of Fighting 2 (1993, Arcade)

If you are mediocre at bowling and end up with a spare instead of a strike, you get a funny little animation of a horse bowling and then gliding across the screen on a skateboard. Tower Unite (2016, PC)

Yeehaw! Cowgirl Peach jumps onto a horse shaped block homunculus and uses her lasso to pull apart the purple horse shaped homunculi in a fun chase sequence. Princess Peach: Showtime! (2024, Switch)

Jon Moxley and Kenny Omega fighting at Full Gear while being surrounded by 4 prancing horses in AEW Fight Forever (2023)

Horses don't do turn based combat. They demolish everything in sight. Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age (Switch, 2019)

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Broken Sword. George is in a costume shop. There is a skeleton riding a unicorn

There is a skeleton riding a unicorn. Broken Sword (1996, PC)

The starting town, Cobblestone throws the most terrifying sprite at you. Luckily they give you the illusion that you are safe from them by putting them behind a fence. They can smash through that and get to you if they wanted. Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age (Switch, 2019)

Instead of saving Grove Street, you can throw all your money away at the horse racing track. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2, 2004)

We're making a game where you play a courier rider in 13th century Mongolia

No combat, just you, the horse(s) you've tamed, bred and trained and the vast wilderness.

Would you play this?

Hold Your Horses Mad Libs

a VERY large horse occluding the sunset

the horse is face down in the sea, hooves aloft, shattering the sky

oh no my horse tripped!

Tower Unite (PC, 2016)

if you're not following @gaminghorses.bsky.social yet, you should be. big things are coming (the big things are horses)

Horse on Horse match-up between the cast of Steel Ball Run. If you fight in the Battle Tendency stage, watch out for the horse carriage. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R (PC, 2022)

Terror stands at the harbour of Nadoret in Drakensang: The River of Time (PC, 2010)