Explore Astride, a horse game set in a Scandinavian-inspired environment.
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Be a part of the early development of Astride by joining the early access program. As our team continues to work on the game, we will be releasing frequent updates and collaborating with our community to shape the ultimate horse-riding experience. Be sure to read up on the currently available game features before purchasing, so you know exactly what to expect from the game. Astride is currently in a pre-alpha state.
As an early access title, Astride is still in development, but you can play and test out the features and game mechanics that have been implemented so far. You can expect limited features and some bugs as the game is still a work in progress. However, this presents an excellent opportunity for you to provide feedback and help shape the game's development with us. With each update, the game will become more polished and packed with new content, providing players with an exciting and evolving experience.
The game's development team welcomes your feedback and suggestions as they work to refine and perfect the game. Your participation in shaping Astride's future is essential. To give feedback regarding Astride, please head over to the Steam discussion forums or join our official Discord server and use the respected channels and forums to provide your valuable feedback.
Breeding prototype - A brand-new feature has arrived, breeding is now available! Choose your mare and stallion to create unique foals that inherit genetic traits from both parents. The genetics system closely mirrors real life, blending breed characteristics, body and head shape, and color genetics to produce one-of-a-kind offspring.
Watch your foals grow day by day as they mature into adult horses you can ride, train, and continue to breed. Build your own lineage and develop a pedigree of exceptional horses over generations.
Horse customization - The Astride Horse Creator offers an array of horse genetic options for you to discover. Select different breeds, heights, head shapes, mane, tail, and forelock styles, base coat colors, face and leg markings, multiple white patterns and different genetics, such as tobiano, splash, cream, grey, silver, and more to customize your horse's appearance. Observe how the various genes influence the outcome of your horse's coat and bring your dream horse to life!
Multiplayer - Whether you prefer playing with friends or riding out alone, Astride offers a multiplayer feature. Explore the environment with your friends or complete strangers. You have the flexibility to host private servers with passcodes for intimate gatherings or join public servers to meet fellow players from around the world.
Show jumping prototype - The initial iteration of the show jumping system is now available for testing. Observe how strides impact the horse's jumping capabilities and master the art of creating the ideal lineup for jumping. Select between a variation of training courses and timed courses and compete against your friends for the best time scores! Try out the cross country jumps placed around the country-side and challenge yourself in rough terrain! Stay tuned for additional updates to the jumping prototype in the near future.
Dressage prototype - The dressage prototype is now available in Astride. Choose between a few different dressage tests and gain scores based on how well you can stick to the program. Follow the path and switch gaits at the perfect moment. Perform movements such as canter pirouette, passage, and piaffe! Dressage is still in development and will keep getting updates over time.
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The concept of Astride has a lot of potential, but the execution is incredibly disappointing. I understand it's in Early Access, but it has been for a long time, and there's still almost nothing to do, with no more than 40 minutes of unique gameplay before it gets repetitive. The tutorial is an information overload text pop up rather than a walk through, the controls don't feel intuitive (nothing about the game does, actually). There's no map to find things, there are no quests, there are no consequences to poor jumping etc. Breeding exists, but it's just 'press 3 buttons and see what comes out'. Buying a horse is just a 1 click button, which gives no customisation other than gender. I have 3 hours in this game because I've given it a chance on 3 different occasions. It's boring, and I should have just filed for a refund while I had the chance.
TLDR: extremely disappointing, absolutely glacial development progress, I fear this game will never leave early access. Where do I start? I was a Kickstarter backer for this game 4 years ago, and since then I have seen so little progress that I'm actually writing a Steam review to warn potential players away from it. I was so excited to see them get a good chunk of funding from their country's grant program to develop this game...and then I fired it up again 3 years later only to discover that they added some courses, sounds, and three new horse breeds. Understanding that the team is small and the assets are all original, the animations still leave so much to be desired. There's no gameplay loop to speak of and the UI is clunky and unintuitive. At least they've finally added sound effects and music after three years? I really expected more from a team as dedicated as this working on a game full time. I guess I'll come back and check again in 2028, which is when they're slating the full release for. I sincerely doubt they'll make that deadline at the pace things have been going. Until then, save your money.
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This is my second time purchasing and playing astride now i would really like to say that i could recommend this game and that there are major improvements but unfortunately that is not the case. I can tell that there is a lot of passion behind this but over all it doesn't deliver much other than a single time horse creator and a environment to explore there's no real goals or progression .the world and environment feel quite hollow and the horses lack the depth id expect from a horse game. really this game shouldn't be in early access its quite simply not ready for it. Overall I would not recommend purchasing astride as its simply not worth the asking price.
Game is EA, nothing has been done with it for 3 years. Released with more promised than there is in game.
I've really enjoyed the horse creator and breeding currently in this game. The horses not moving in their stalls and all spawning on the same axis creeps me out after a while and makes me feel like I've stumbled into the back rooms. If the horses walked around a bit by their own free will, interacted with each other and if I could put them out to roam in the paddock I would spend hours upon hours of my life playing this game. In saying this, I'd only recommend buying it if your happy to take a gamble on it getting finished and are happy to wait. Keenly following other games like Giddy up that look like they might overtake this one in developement.
I've backed this game on kickstarter a few years back. My profile picture is from this game, from the time when you could run for hours into the void which would result in a glitchy and deformed horse. That was the most fun I had in this game. Since then, they've added jumping, dressage and breeding. Jumping - I like the idea of adjusting your stride to make the horse jump but it's currently dull and buggy. Not fun. Dressage - Something that would be fun with more people but I don't have horsey gamer friends that would have good enough pc to run this game. Your horse is born with elite dressage knowledge skills and can do a piaffe when you sit on it for the first time. I would like to be able to train for the more advanced dressage moves. Breeding is actually somewhat fun, but managing horses in the stable is boring and frustrating due to bad UI. I like that they went for real coat colour genetics. The gene combiantions are well executed. This is the only well made part of this parody of a horse game.
In this game nothing happens since years. EA ok. But don`t take that much money for absolutly nothing. Horses look unreal. The Coat looks like plastic. The movement of the rider looks horrible too. The jumping arena looks nice but you just go right and left. The jump is automatic and always look like horse is jumping into the obstacle or behind it. The written news always call about the hard work to get stable and fences looking nice. Its nice to have beautiful stables .. but for what? It should be a game to play not a village looking good. So i put the game down.. wondering for what i was giving this money.
Sehr süss und hat mega Potential. Freu mich auf das fertige Produkt!
Nachdem die Steuerung komplett geändert wurde, kann ich das Game leider nicht mehr so genießen wie davor. (Ich habe ein Handicap, fehlender Zeigefinger links) Das ganze Steuerungssystem ist so "anders" als in regulären Pferdegames, dass es kaum noch Spaß macht, sich mit dem Pferd zu bewegen. Vorher war es einfacher für mich. Dies ist aber nur eine persönliche Meinung. Ansonsten habe ich großen Respekt davor, wie viel Mühe sich das Team mit dem Spiel macht und finde es gut, dass auf die Spieler gehört wird. Leider sehr schade, dass es nicht wenigstens einen kleinen Storyteil gibt. So fühlt sich das Game an wie ein Sandbox-Simulator. Wer dennoch gern mit seinem Lieblingspferd herum galoppieren möchte oder sich mit Freunden auf einen Ausritt treffen mag, kann dies hier tun.
Das Spiel ist ganz gut, man darf nicht vergessen, dass es noch nicht fertig ist. Man kann noch nicht so viel machen. Wenn das Spiel mal fertig ist, wird es bestimmt mega gut. Positives: - Man kann über 30 Pferde haben, man kann sie kaufen oder verkaufen, wie man möchte. - das erste Pferd, kann man sich selber gestalten - Die Reitfunktion ist mal was anderes, finde ich gut umgesetzt - die Pferde sehen teilweise sehr realistisch aus - Der Stall gefällt mir sehr gut Was es noch zu verbessern gibt: - Man kann den Pferden die Ausrüstung nicht abnehmen ( zumindest weiß ich nicht wie es geht ) - Wenn man sich ein neues Pferd kauft, kann man nur das Geschlecht aussuchen, da würde ich mir wünschen, dass man das ändert. Man sollte alles bestimmen dürfen ( Farbe, Rasse, Mähne, Augenfarbe,...) Es gibt sicherlich noch einiges mehr zu verbessern, aber das Spiel ist auf einen guten Weg! Vielen Dank für dieses Spiel.
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