Astride

Early Access Demo, without the demo??? It's not early access, and there's little to no updates for it to justify as early access. They post somewhat monthly "devlogs" that provide you with no hope for the actual future of the game, and consist of pictures that showcase assets they are making for the game. Users want to see what you're making for the user experience. Visuals are important, but we're ready to see the full menu...think we've had enough of the appetizers. Until they provide any real update and roadmap to steam, I have to heavily recommend against purchasing this barely demo in early access.

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.

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.

Game is EA, nothing has been done with it for 3 years. Released with more promised than there is in game.

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.

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.

The state of this game is horrendous. I used to back it on Patreon and lastly played it in January of 2025. Today I gave it a shot to see the progress but there is none. The human and horse models look ridiculous. I don't understand, why the devs would implement other breeds while everything looks so clunky and chunky and plain ugly.

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.

I TRIED TO PLAY AND KEEP GETTING STUCK ON THE LOADING SCREEN:( i just wanted ti play a horse game!