Horse Racing Manager

It would be very hard for me to recommend playing this game, I have thousands of hours playing modern horse games as Starters Orders, Winning post... And this game is very lackluster, regardless of EA, and especially for this price tag. The overall gamedesign doesn't make any sense for anyone who has a semblance of horse racing knowledge, its scope is so broad that it does a lot, but nothing well. Jockeys and Trainers are hired full time by your stable, the worst donkey costs multiple millions, most races distances makes no sense, the prizepools are randomized, aswell as the race program itself. The races simulation is barely cooked itself, the races starts, horses run in snatches between 80 and 90% of their speed, and then sprint at 100% in the last meters, no pack racing, no strategy, As a developper myself of both games and entreprise software, the entire game screams bad vibecoding. it behaves completely erraticaly, the UI is very clunky and extremely convoluted, nothing connects together, FM26 UI feels like a masterpiece in comparison. From a high level, it look likes it works, but when you start looking a bit more into it, you start noticing many discrepancies, if the system that you're looking at actually works at all, most of the automations don't work for example (training, scouting...), most filters don't work either, and even the ones that filter something mostly do it wrong. Performance is also a big concern, even on a decent machine the game do freeze regularly while loading, even on smaller database, for what is mostly a spreadsheet game. I don't think that using AI, or even vibecoding is a bad thing, but when it's done by a non-technical person that can't review what's the AI is spitting out, this is the kind of product you tend to end up with, looks OK on the surface, but is completely broken on the inside. The developper should have focused on making the horse racing part decent before starting all sort of bloat on top of it, to name a few : Stock markets, personal life, stable interactions, auction house/racetrack building... It's a game that is worth a couple of euros at maximum, and even so, I do find it quite boring as nothing really works and unfortunately I don't think that further developement will allow to fix that.

There is clearly a lot of passion put into this game by the devs. Frequent updates and responsive to community feedback. This is a very immersive and detailed stable manager sim. Looking forward to seeing the game continue to develop, but there is already robust layers of content.

An excellent game, but be ready for a LOT of depth (and some tweaks that might still make it better). You can automate most things if the depth is too much, it's very modular in that way, so that's good. I'd like to address some issues I saw in one specific review, because this review nearly made me skip the game until I tested their veracity in the demo for myself. [b]Claim: Jockeys and Trainers are hired full time by your stable[/b] False... partially. Jockeys and trainers and anyone else [i]can[/i] be hired full-time, permanently, but they can also break their contract. You can also hire them to 1, 3, or 10-year deals, and because there's an exclusivity clause you can add, it makes me think that jockeys in particular can be expected to work for other stables as well unless that clause is in their contract. [b]Claim: the worst donkey costs multiple millions[/b] False, but the pricing of horses isn't always fair, which is why you need to take care and utilize your scouts. There are two points at play here: First, without proper scouting, the star rating of a horse or potential employee is an estimate at best. It may be higher or lower than the "faded" star rating; only a bright white star rating, which indicates a fully scouted entity, is reliable. Second, people will set prices where they will and they won't always be fair. I've seen 1-star horses on market for $1M and 3-star horses on the market for $1M. Pedigree, rating (different than start rating; I speak of the horse rating, based on its performance in races), and owner whim can all factor into the price. Importantly, you can negotiate the price anyway. (By the way, plenty of horses for $20k, $40k, and in the hundreds of thousands on the market.) [b]Claim: Most races distances makes no sense[/b] I'm not fully sure what was meant here, so I can't confirm or deny this. What I can say is that SMILE distances are all accounted for - sprits, mile races, intermediate distance (~1600m - ~2200m), long distance, and extended races that are quite the slog. But there's one thing to note that I'll cover just below. [b]The prizepools are randomized, as well as the race program itself[/b] This one is true. But the game makes it pretty easy to import a custom schedule. The official Discord has a fanmade schedule that includes races and racecourses from all over the world. America, Britain, Japan, Dubai, Hong Kong, Italy, France, it's all there at the proper distance, value, time, and place. [b]Claim: The races simulation is barely cooked itself, the races starts, horses run in snatches between 80 and 90% of their speed, and then sprint at 100% in the last meters, no pack racing, no strategy,[/b] Very false. Horses do range from 80 to 100% of their speed, as needed to keep their pace, and they do generally try to sprint at 100% in the last meters. But this is also the case in games like Starters Orders 7, because this is... pretty much horse racing. Horses don't usually have a running strategy, which is why jockeys exist. So for horses running too fast too soon, the jockey has to slow them up. For horses not keeping their position aggressively enough, they need to be sped up from time to time. This is the 80-100% you're seeing. As far as the strategy? It absolutely exists. Horses run better or worse with different strategies (front runner, presser, mid-pack, late, and closer strategies are in the game) and jockeys will generally try to run the strategy you set, if you set one. Their ability to do so depends on their skill, of course. Sometimes the horse will run a different way. I see horses that break well and power through the pack bravely. I see horses that are tentative and have trouble getting around even when there's a clear path. I see horses that run wild from the start and gas out because they're just too keen. I see horses that are leisurely throughout and never really kick into gear. Mentality, temperament, traits, and stats all play a role in how a horse runs, but there are definite strategies employed. When I expect to see my horse run in the pack, it runs in the pack. When I expect it to press, it presses. It's not just telling me it ran a presser when it clearly ran at the back of mid-pack. So while it's possible the engine still needs little refinements? Overall, this claim didn't stack up to what I played. [b]Claim: The entire game [...] it behaves completely erraticaly, the UI is very clunky and extremely convoluted, nothing connects together...[/b] I find this is completely false, but this review was from May so perhaps a lot of this was fixed in an update since. [b]Claim: Performance is also a big concern, even on a decent machine the game do freeze regularly while loading, even on smaller database, for what is mostly a spreadsheet game.[/b] This is true if you do long simulations, like a month or so at a time. But games with this degree of simulation and depth will do that. WMMA5 is the same way, for example.

Very good game, I definitely recommend it. It has a very active discord and development team, a team which is currently working on improvements and bug fixes, and they are very responsive to feedback. The horse racing is quite fun, fairly realistic, a nice variety of patterns and genetics, and a lot of side details that are constantly getting improved (which allows for interesting scenarios, like when I had to fire my head trainer after she embezzled 19 million dollars). My main flaw with the game, is that the save file size is very large. It takes a couple minutes to save or load a decently aged world. I poked around in the SQLite database that it saves the date in, and the table with the second most rows was bets - I haven't touched betting system once in my playthrough, so it was only the NPC bets. Hopefully they optimize that in the future. Edit: The devs have since then optimized the save speed and reduced the save file size. They also added an option to remove old race results from the save. This has reduced my game's save size by 70%.

I have this down as the best Horse racing game ever now period the end. I haven't a bad word to say about it, the Devs are constalty tweaking annd updating it since I purchased it only a few weeks ago which is rare to see nowadays with most games. That said here's a few small suggestions I would like to throw out there. 1: Maybe a winners photo shot after the race with for example the iconic 40-pound blanket of red roses famously placed around the winner of the Kentucky Derby. 2: I would love to see a grand stand of screaming punters with flashing cameras rolling into the background as the horses start to break for the line. 3: As the leading horse is breaking away from the pack have the commentator keep repeating its name. 4: A seperate stable for young horses and horses expecting lil babas so they aren't spamming up the pick race screen. 5: And the big one and most obvious one, multiplayer where each stable competes against each other in the same race season. FM style. I'll update this post if I think of more but kudos on the game.

Football Manager pero de Carrera de caballos Un juego con muchísimo potencial... Esperaré a la versión final para poder disfrutarlo en todo su esplendor y con un acabado más pulido... Football Manager, but for horse racing A game with huge potential... I'll wait for the final version so I can enjoy it in all its glory and with a more polished finish...

绝对是好游戏，翻译虽然不完全，但足够用了

βテストからプレイしていたが、遂に日本語対応したEA版だが、どんどん拡張していく期待できる一作。 スタートは従業員かオーナーを選べ、従業員はまず所属する厩舎を選び、面接をし、契約を勝ち取り、厩務員、騎手、調教師等様々な職業で活躍し、名声を高め、より良い契約・他厩舎への移籍、また自ら厩舎を始めることができます。オーナーは厩舎の管理を始め、設備投資やスタッフの管理等かなりやることが多いです。資金の管理も重要になってきます。 ここからは駄文になりますが、細かすぎる内容についてお話します。 馬・スタッフには能力と特性があり、能力は現在値と上限値のポテンシャルがあります。ポテンシャルは先天性であり、変化する事はありません。特性は能力に大きな変化を与え、イベントや他の馬・スタッフに付与する場合があります。現時点での能力よりも、潜在能力や優れた特性を選び、厩舎に招き入れるのが重要です。 馬には一頭毎に調教師・厩務員・騎手を選ぶ必要があり、餌やケア、輸送手段や宿泊施設も決める必要があります。また蹄鉄も管理する必要があり、疫病になれば検疫施設に隔離、故障したら治療法の選択をする必要があり常に細心の注意を払う必要があります。 調教では１日単位でメニューを選べ、厳しい調教では怪我のリスクが高まり、気性も悪化します。 経営はこれでもかと言うほど内容が多く、スタッフの雇用・引き抜き、賃上げ交渉 金銭面では株やスポンサー、競馬場やオークションハウスの管理、脱税（は…？） 他人との交流は、関係改善、恋愛・結婚、法的措置、暴行、暗〇（ここちょっと消えてますね） …とまあ出来ることが多すぎるゲームです。正直レビューでは語り切れない内容ですので是非プレイしてみて下さい。

This is a very good horse racing management sim I would recommend but unfortunately it has been infected with wokery.

목장경영 - 에펨에서 3배정도 난이도올리면 나오는퀄리티 기수생활 - 진짜 기수처럼 200 ~ 300 경기를 물리적으로 나갈수는없지만 주요대회에서만 활동해도 상당히 재미있음 버그 - 현재까지 뭔가 큰버그는 없지만 자잘한 버그는많음 게임을 못할정도는 아니지만 접게끔하는요소는많음 총평 - 목장 경영요소는 1시간해본결과 버그와 번역문제로 난이도가 어렵지만 기수생활정도는 경기만 나가는게아니라 사치품이라든지 여러활동할수있는 요소가있음 ( 결혼 있음 ) 다만 지금 하라고 추천하지는 않음 일본에서 활동하면 북한 남한 중국 그외 오세아니아국가에서 경기를 나감 뭔가 이상한게 껴있음 한창 개발중이니 기다렸다 27년쯤에 사면 되지않을까싶음