Welcome to our review of My riding stables, where we try to rebuild a stable into a successful business.
Make your dreams come true on the stud farm near the old mill: renovate your own riding school, look after your horses and tend the cute little foals. As well as wonderful rides, working in the stables and caring for the horses, you’ll have plenty of other exciting things to do!
My Riding Stables is currently only available on the Nintendo Switch’ eShop, but a physical preorder has been out there and quite frankly, it is a game with a big manual to know what is good and what is not.
The good part, this game is actually very well made business simulator with a stable as the main premise. You get to run the place like a real boss, go online in the game to buy new items, all very modern feeling. You get to groom the horses, do races, … Much like it would be in real life. You got the square in the middle of the stables, your home, … it feels like a whole when you look at it.
The bad part is much bigger, so I will break it down into parts. First off, the graphics. While this game is clearly aimed at a younger and female audience, my 41 years old male person did see the appeal of using more childish graphics. Sadly there are better games with better graphics already out on Nintendo Switch, I can name Windstorm to be that specific title. It looks like it was made with smartphones in mind. Let’s just keep it at that, it could look so much better if they spent more time making it a little more realistic.
Secondly, this game controls rather sluggishly. When you walk around, the camera either stops following you completely or the game starts glitching where you walk through a horse… Walking backward is even a worse experience as that is just about the most cringe-worthy part of the game. The game stutters or you start slinging your player to one side or the other, seemingly random.
Third, Riding stables just feels like a bad experience despite a promising idea. I am sure little girls might love games like these, but for anyone with some gaming experience, this game is just bad. And, I repeat, despite a promising idea. I am having trouble to really give a positive vibe for this game, because I do think that if you are giving this game to the right target audience, they might fully enjoy the game. Anyone else might be disappointed by the clumsiness of this game.
If they’d fix the overall slow responses and clunky feelings all around, this might become a good game. For now, I really can not give any due credit because it is just a bad experience.
In conclusion, I hope my review was clear enough. This game has more issues than positive points, despite the great idea, the way it was worked out, it just doesn’t do the trick. My rating for this game is based mostly upon the equation between a great idea and its downsides… 30%.
