The horse gamers have spoken: This new horse sim has 'a beautiful sense of realism I haven't felt since RDR2'

The horse gamers have spoken: This new horse sim has ‘a beautiful sense of realism I haven’t felt since RDR2’ | PC Gamer Skip to main content Open menu Close main menu PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES US Edition UK US Canada Australia Subscribe Sign in View Profile Sign out Search Search PC Gamer Games Hardware News Reviews Guides Video Forum More PC Gaming Show PC Gamer Clips Software Codes Coupons Movies & TV Magazine Newsletter Affiliate links Meet the team Community guidelines About PC Gamer PC Gamer Magazine SubscriptionWhy subscribe?Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming magTry a single issue or save on a subscriptionIssues delivered straight to your door or device From$1Subscribe now Don’t miss these Action After 6 hours, Crimson Desert is one of the most overwhelming, chaotic, madcap videogames I’ve ever played—and I’m hungry for more RPG It’s only March, but I’m calling it: Esoteric Ebb is 2026’s best RPG and the first worthy successor to Disco Elysium Strategy Heart of the Machine review: A fascinating grand strategy RPG that starts to buckle under its own ambitions Sim Finally someone has threaded the needle between survival game and horse girl sim Life Sim 10 years later, I still can’t believe Eric Barone thought Harvest Moon fans would hate Stardew Valley RPG Avowed was always great, but now that it costs what it should have at launch and nobody’s being weird about it online, it’s kinda perfect Life Sim Stardew Valley has basically become the Tolkien of cozy gaming MMO Project: Gorgon has recaptured the old-school MMO magic I thought was dead and gone by letting me ask a pig about its mother so hard it dies Sim Is the realistic horse courier sim The Legend of Khiimori worth playing in early access? 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From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we’ve got you covered. Signup + Once a month SFX Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! Signup + An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter Horse games have a reputation—a fairly earned one, I’m sad to say—for being bad. If they’re horse-accurate, they’re ugly. If they’re pretty, they’re boring. If they’re highly anticipated, they’re buggy and unsupported. Horse enthusiast gamers have been burned before and often left half-fulfilled by the latest horse games. Horse courier sim The Legend of Khiimori launched in early access this week and this might finally be the equine experience that horse gamers deserve.Normally I’d go to developer and critic Alice Ruppert, known horse gamer spokesperson, for an expert opinion. She’s done consulting on Khiimori though, so for a more neutral view I’ve instead called upon another equestrian correspondent: livestreamer, Red Dead Redemption 2 horse posse wrangler, and professional horse photographer Chelsea Farace. (Image credit: Mindscape)Farace estimates that she’s played upwards of 30 horse games over the years in search of the perfect one. She agrees that so many of them wind up being just “good enough” to sate the hunger of horse-lovers. “They scratch the itch but always leave something important missing, whether it’s depth, realism, or soul,” she says. You may like Finally someone has threaded the needle between survival game and horse girl sim Is the realistic horse courier sim The Legend of Khiimori worth playing in early access? The Legend of Khiimori’s new gameplay shows Death Stranding with a horse is an idea that has legs The Legend of Khiimori looked like it had an answer to all three: beautiful, realistic horses, deep training and breeding systems, and a soulful depiction of historical Mongolia. Its demo was so popular last year that developer Aesir Interactive delayed the launch that had been planned for 2025. Now that it’s actually launched, how are the horse gamers feeling about the first few days with Khiimori?”Khiimori, right now, feels like it’s well above that ‘good enough’ line,” Farace says. “There is a beautiful sense of realism I haven’t felt since RDR2 and I adore it.”She praises all the visual horse accuracy like th