Rival Stars Horse Racing: Desktop Edition on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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With stunning, realistic horses, an in-depth breeding system, and a range of exciting game modes, Rival Stars Horse Racing offers horse fans the ultimate racing and riding experience. Take the reins and become an equestrian legend!

Rival Stars Horse Racing: Desktop Edition is a horses, racing and immersive sim game developed and published by PikPok.
Released on June 24th 2020 is available on Windows and MacOS in 13 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese and Turkish.

It has received 4,172 reviews of which 3,874 were positive and 298 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 27.29€ on Steam with a 30% discount.

The Steam community has classified Rival Stars Horse Racing: Desktop Edition into these genres:

Horses Racing Immersive Sim Sports Management PvP Competitive Farming Sim Character Customization 3D RPG Story Rich Casual Simulation Strategy Realistic Family Friendly Emotional Multiplayer Singleplayer

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7 (SP1+)/10 64bit
Processor: Core i5 Processor
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD 4000
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 3 GB available space

MacOS

OS: macOS 10.12 (Sierra)
Processor: Core i5 Processor
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD 4000
Storage: 3 GB available space
Additional Notes: Must support Metal

User reviews & Ratings

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Nov. 2024

definitely a favourite go-to game of mine, I can't really fault anything in it. I DO wish you could care for your horses (e.g, feed them, water them, wash them, etc) but nonetheless it's a great game

Oct. 2024

3.5/5 Rival Stars Horse Racing is an entertaining game with a lot of potential, though lack-luster in many areas. Notes: - The horse graphics/animations are beautiful. Not 'Red Dead Redemption 2' beautiful, but when most horse game competitors have graphics that look like they went through a blender twice, Rival Stars easily surpasses them. I do wish there were a little more diversity in their animation loops. I also wish there were more customization options for your jockey, even though they aren't really an important aspect of the game, it would just be nice. - The story is endearing, although not the most captivating -- after a few levels, I found myself just skipping through the dialogue without reading it, because we don't get to actually see anything happening, we just have to read people talking about something that happened. And that's fine, the story isn't the main attraction for this game, I just wish it were a little more catching to the player. - The horse breeding system is addictive as hell lol. Especially now that they've added cross-breeding, breeding horses is seriously so much fun. I love all the different coat and color types for the horses, too. - Unfortunately, my least favorite part about this game is... the gameplay loop itself. Because boy is it a loop. The first few hours I didn't mind it, but as time went on it got more and more irritating and, simply, boring. It's very mobile-game feeling (which makes sense, as Rival Stars is also a mobile game, and their mobile version arguably gets more love from the devs than this version). You breed a new foal. Train it. Skip through a hundred races with it to level it up. You use it to earn enough cash to breed your next generation of horses, and then the cycle repeats, endlessly. Or rather, until you reach max level, at which point there's not much to do in the game at all. I know that we horse-girlies have very few options to choose from, because for some reason, the gaming world has yet to realize just how easy it would be to capitalize off of horse girls and horse games lmao. So, since our options are limited as is, I would definitely recommend Rival Stars Horse Racing. I don't think it's perfect -- I think it has crazy potential, though I can't say I'm optimistic that much of that potential will actually be met. Despite my negative notes, I have generally enjoyed my time playing this game -- I just can't help but wish for more options, diversity, and freedom in the game. More things to do, more horse breeds, Western riding, things like mini games, the option to directly feed and groom our horses, etc, etc.

Aug. 2024

I bought this game after playing the mobile version. I enjoy the PC version much more, since there are no micro-transactions or subscriptions. I love the racing, the breeding, the training, and the goal/leveling system. I do wish that there was a way to connect with friends in the game, but that's my only gripe.

July 2024

I absolutely adore this game for many reasons! 1. It is SUPER realistic 2. Theres not only racing, but cross country, steeplechase and now showjumping beta! 3. You can breed adorable foals and train them to grow up into a racehorse/eventer 4. There are many breeds: tb, arab, sf, qh. 5. There are super realistic and cute coats! 6. You can decorate your character 7. You can train horses 8. You can create your own horses on the desktop version 9. You can buy horses for good prices at the market which is easy to access in one click 10. It is an overall VERY enjoyable game which I highly recommend for equestrians. One thing I will say, there isnt much to do after a while. But I really love this game! :)

April 2024

Probably one of the best horse games on steam... but there are some things that are just not ok. Starting out with the price; for what this game has to offer, 40 euros is just too much money. 20 or even 30 euros would've been okay. Secondly, this game, which is the desktop version of a mobile game, gets the updates MONTHS apart from mobile which is simply not fair. Mobile version is free to play with micro-transactions. Desktop HAS to be BOUGHT. I think there is a huge difference here. I'm fully aware the team makes double, probably triple the money with mobile edition and I could absolutely wait a couple weeks, even a month for the same mobile update, but I can't wait half a year. This is just unacceptable and ridiculous, in my opinion. Apart from that, the animations are well made, the colors and patterns of the horses are cute and creative and the breeding could definitely be quite addictive. The racing aspect of the game is also well made but you kinda get tired of racing yourself after a while and end up using the jockey bots. Watching the races feels a lot better than actually participating. I recommend this game to all those people who love to do the same things for hours on end, that love horses and that don't mind waiting to see an update that mobile has had for half a year.

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-30% 38.99€ 27.29€

8.9

3,874

298

Online players

211

Developer

PikPok

Publisher

PikPok

Release 24 Jun 2020

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