FEI Equestriad World Tour 4+

This is one of the most realistic games I’ve seen recently, it’s even high up there with Equestrian The Game. But, I feel like the purchasing systems are a little weird... it’s too cheap to buy a new horse and too expensive to buy tack, which is just a cosmetic. Update 2 august 2022: The game has made crazy improvement since my last review. The animations and the pass are much much better now. It still feels recycled, though it’s probably one of the bests horse games at the moment, other than Rival Stars (because of the graphics). I think most of the kinks of the gameplay have been worked out. Other than the horse and rider models being pretty outdated, at least there is a variety. This game is definitely above ETG and SSO. Update: since the new update the controls have gotten extremely hard to control. I switched to automatic steering and it still has the same problem. In all three disciplines my horse will randomly start going side to side. I can’t get perfect strides because of it. Also the season pass is mostly recycled clothes and accessories that have been there since the game was made, definitely not worth the 500 gold shoes.

Being someone who grew up loving horses, I always waited for a good and fun mobile game involving this type of equestrian gaming. It was long awaited, but I downloaded this game the moment it was available. I never really played it more than a few levels in because of how buggy it was, so I re-downloaded it recently to be reminded on how bad some of the mechanics are. I understand apps can be tough to develop with controls, but the controls all together are confusing and don’t work half of the time. Turning with the reins is mentally painful, the horse either turns too sharp or the game automatically puts you back onto the path for you to smack into a jump. The jump mechanic is severely flawed on distance, and everything in-game that you want has a price that is nearly impossible to achieve without spending some money. It’s fun, but it has its limits on how fun it is until you start spending money on it, then it just becomes another game in the library that you spent too much money on so your character can look cool. Definitely worth the time, but not really worth the money! Other than the negatives, I really do like the realism of the statistics for each horse, the breeds, and the rider appearances! I hope in the future we can breed our horses or have a more detailed purchasing system! 🤍

I understand the game is new but it’s pretty buggy. I love the concept and I can’t wait to see future updates because this game definitely has potential. I would give it more stars but I’m getting pretty annoyed at a lot of the bugs that I’ve come across. The one that has annoyed me the most is how buggy the teams seem to be. I spent gold horseshoes to create a team and within a day my team just disappeared like I never created it. Also while I had the team although myself and teammates were earning “team points” we were still at zero? Not quite sure how that works. I definitely want to create that team again... but maybe I’ll wait until a patch/update comes out so I don’t end up wasting 50 gold horseshoes to do it.

The controls are a bit clunky but I like the lay out. It’s really hard to do well consistently as the timing aspect, timed arrows, doesn’t seem to have much affect on whether you get a perfect jump or not. As soon as you think you figured it out you end up failing or getting “good” jumps.

Also the gaits could use a little work but for a mobile game they’re not bad at all. Overall I’m pretty happy with the game and all the potential it has. It definitely needs to be polished up but once the bugs are fixed and the game is smoothed out a bit I think it will be one of the best mobile horse games available. It’s just a diamond in the rough right now.