Equinox: Homecoming

I do not recommend this game in its current form, particularly if you don't have friends to play with or you want a complete story. Not having a complete story in a game that isn't in Early Access is pretty insane to me, especially when it is not free. If you personally don't care too much about this stuff, I would recommend buying it when it's on offer.

Initially i really enjoyed the game but after 20+ hours it became really repetetive and boring. But what makes it worse is that the updates are very rare and usually don"t really add much stuff. There are relatively other new, small, ambitious games that simply provide more content every time they annoumce an update. If they added something more to do (after completing the story) than doing races and weekly quests maybe i'd open the game again.

This game had a lot of potential. Horse game enthusiasts are an underserved market, and the idea of a horse game that had genuinely interesting story, semi-decent horse animations, and an atmospheric world was alluring. I've put a lot of time into this game, however, and it's fallen short of my expectations. The only 'competitions' are capture the flag style games played against other players, or you can do races to go on a leaderboard. The races aren't particularly interesting on their face either. The graphics are glitchy and don't feel right. The run animation is off, the facial animations are only okay, your character does weird things when entering chat (they'll pop in unnaturally if you start the conversation on horseback, or randomly jump 60% of the time if you start it on foot), and the animations of all of the characters feels stiff in cut scenes and in general gameplay. Characters don't move around- they'll park themselves in one spot 98% of the time, and if you need to go somewhere with them, they don't actually travel with you; they'll simply appear at the end location. The world assets are reused from other games or put into the world oddly. There are some places where you can tell the plants on the ground had pots in their assets, because it's sticking out of the ground. The story has promise, but it doesn't feel well thought-out. The clues you find don't actually give the player any sense of understanding, but the dialogue and journal entries make it seem like you understand a bunch of information through making assumptions. There are pieces we're supposed to just intuitively know, but since we're not the writer of the story, we don't. Other reviewers have also commented about the sheer cost of horses. Anything but the starter horse is expensive, and the only ways to get them are to pay additional money (for a game that was already more expensive than it should have been, in my opinion) or to grind out unrealistic, boring, and repetitive side quests that are designed to fill time by making you run around the map a bunch. Upgrades and fast-travel are expensive, which means you need to do a LOT of the side quests, and they only really matter if you want to do the crown chase (capture the flag with other players) Clubs are a thing that can get you some additional gear, but unless you have friends who are also willing to settle for a just-okay experience in a game that feels like it was cobbled together with premade assets, then that's not readily available. You would need to talk in world chat to find people who are willing to join a club with you; probably possible, but that wasn't the experience I wanted. The game is meant to be for adults, to my understanding, but it feels like the caliber of a kids game story-wise. It's thin and surface level. There could have been so much more texture and quality, and I was just let down. Will I continue to play it until I reach the end of the available story? Probably, but it's not because I find the game to be good. It's just the least bad horse rpg option available currently.

i love this game so much bro. if i could go back and show this to my 12yo self they would have been ecstatic, it's everything i ever wanted in a horse mmo. theyre steadily updating, adding, and tweaking all the time. really appreciate the hard with and changes made

Love the concept, lots of potential but the execution is not yet there. The graphics are trying too hard which makes them lose their charm a little bit (especially considering the performance issues that come with the nicer graphics too).. Nobody would notice if you would substitute some things for lower poly models.. I think I will absolutely love this game in a few years if it manages to keep itself afloat until then. I will keep playing it even though there's too many immersion-breaking issues at the moment, they are not necessarily large or hard to fix but disruptive enough that I do not relate to my character or feel all that connected to the game. One small quirk that gives the game a bit more personality is the radio thingy, it has nice music that fits with the overall vibe of the game.

I cant lie, I brought this game ages ago as a horse game to play, the game looked so good in terms of realism in the horses. However. Its ♥♥♥♥, is the honast words. The story concept behind it is great, however as a horse game its really really naf, the horses just feel like a car, get from point a to point b. This has so much potential to be a really good horse game, however thats just gone down the drain. The horses feel so lifeless, the animations feel really odd and same with the riders seat. I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone that wants a horse game, if u want a horror with horses, cool, great for u. But if u want an actual horse game with decent plot, do not buy this, iv tried to refund the game but its beyond the timeframe. This game would be soo good if the horses felt alive, if they had diff personality's and consequences for not taking care of them, actual things to do like mucking out, brushing, properly feeding, your normal horsie jobs, but they just feel so lifeless. For the 3rd time DO NOT BUY THIS GAME IF YOU WANT A HORSE GAME Red dead redemption is a better horse game than this, and it's not even designed to be a horse game

So schwer, das Spiel zu bewerten.. Es hat eigentlich so unglaublich viel Potential, aber es wird/wurde einfach nicht genutzt. Ich finde die Art des Spiels und den Aufbau (die Map, die Pferde,..) total schön, aber gleichzeitig wirkt alles so leer und seelenlos. Hat leider gereicht, um das Spiel dann zurückzugeben.

The graphics, combined with the island's design, make the open world memorable, you can tell it was crafted with care. The gameplay itself involves a bit of grinding to level up factions your horse and your player character. You spend quite a bit of time foraging or trying to beat best times in races. As for the story, it is decent, nothing extraordinary, some parts of the main plot feature voiced cutscenes that are very enjoyable. A big plus is the shared open world and the nice community that bring the island to life. For me, every session on the island feels like a vacation.