I've still got a few copies left if you'd like to give it a try -- I cannot overstate how massively fascinating this game is. ;) ;)

Three weeks since HORSES launched. Thank you to everyone who played and shared the news! To celebrate we've put together an accolades trailer with some of our favorite quotes www.youtube.com/watch?v=siQW...

@steamsupport.bsky.social i noticed you banned antifascist game Horses, but are allowing open antisemitism. the arbitrary enforcement and unclear ethical standards are disconcerting to millions of people. at this point in time i am planning not to release on your platform because of this.

The final Edge of 2025 is out now, in which we talk to Grasshopper Manufacture about the winningly unhinged Romeo Is A Dead Man. Here are the retail and subs covers. If you’re celebrating Christmas, we hope it’s a good one. See you for lots more magazine-shaped action in 2026.

«Obsesivo y enfermizo, pero de una elegancia pasmosa: al presentarlo como un artefacto audiovisual mudo, no solo se hace menos explícito, también más inquietante e incómodo; menos vulgar, más crudo.» Daniel García Raso, @niveloculto.com 😁

Three weeks since HORSES launched. Thank you to everyone who played and shared the news! To celebrate we've put together an accolades trailer with some of our favorite quotes www.youtube.com/watch?v=siQW...

A few years ago we (@joonturbo.bsky.social, @polclarissou.bsky.social, @torfi.bsky.social, @muuutsch.bsky.social & I) made a cool game about squirrels - it's on sale on Steam now & people are still enjoying it. What a delightful feeling!! ❤️

It is your civic duty to freedom of the press to Streisand the heck out of this 60 minutes report about CECOT so here's another place you can watch it and pass it around www.thereset.news/p/breaking-h...

🔥🔥 NEW SPEEDRUN RECORD VERIFIED! 🔥🔥 🎮 Game: HORSES 🏆 Category: Any% ⏱ Time: 0h 49m 44s 233ms 👤 Player: MildGothDaddy 🔗 Link: http://www.speedrun.com/HORSES/run/z17ln7gz

played through all of Horses today and i dont know if id say its the best game this year but it's definitely the most a game has ever been of This Year if you still have not played it and can deal with upsetting imagery, you should do that www.horses.wtf/index.html

My game of the year for Italian communist newspaper Il Manifesto is Andrea Lucco Borlera and @santaragione.com's Horses. I also think that this kind of "emersive videogames" can be important in a revolutionary perspective and I hope to explore this topic further in the future.

Does anyone know what is going on with Opencritic's page for HORSES? All recorded reviews all have 75+ scores, but the average website score is 65 "WEAK" 😱 opencritic.com/game/19792/h...

Could you please look into this @opencritic.bsky.social ?

One of my favorite new Keeper update features is the ability to force the aspect ratio to ultra wide if you want to experience it on a standard 16:9 monitor. 32:9 + Noir mode makes for a very different experience.

There’s a moment in this where @ramiismail.com talks about people distancing themselves or being told to do so because of his advocacy. Most never talk about but, man, it’s so real. The last couple years have been professionally and personally isolating in brutal ways. It’s been really eye-opening.

had to explain to my mom what HORSES is. thankfully she already knows about the animal so that made it easier

It’s the last Remap Radio of 2025! Rob, Janet, Patrick, and Chia make sense of the backlash to Larian revealing they’re using AI for their next game. Plus, video games! Lego Party! Master of Command! Bluey: The Quest for the Gold Pen! Horses! Dogpile! More! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Research is the MAGIC TIME on any project where I get to go have fun and explore. And 100% what you are looking for are the surprising and amazing details and textures that you could never make up

NEW: For the last seven weeks, Naughty Dog has enacted mandatory overtime for staff to finish an internal demo of their next game, Intergalactic. The game won't be out until 2027, leaving some staff wondering: If they're crunching now, what will next year be like? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Could you please look into this @opencritic.bsky.social ?

Does anyone know what is going on with Opencritic's page for HORSES? All recorded reviews all have 75+ scores, but the average website score is 65 "WEAK" 😱 opencritic.com/game/19792/h...

[PODCAST] HORSES: An Interview with @santaragione.com 's Pietro Righi Riva. @milest94.bsky.social sits down with Pietro once again to talk HORSES, the rocky launch and the aftermath. Listen to this fascinating interview below; fingerguns.net/podcast/2025...

Our Discorders answered the question, 'what if the games of 2025 were Simpsons stills?' Judge the results for yourself.

and if your first game from Santa Ragione was Horses, and you DIDN’T enjoy that, you should check out Mediterranea Inferno

Soon. @santaragione.com 👀

I've seen some takes suggesting that this was all a marketing stunt and this would not have sold nearly this well if it was on Steam sans controversy. Look, discoverability is fucked, true, but the idea that a dev would forego Steam and Epic on a lark is a ridiculous take.

the good news is that the media attention and support from an audience has helped Horses do well enough that Santa Ragione has been able to pay all its owed royalties and loans. so it's not in debt. the bad news is it's still not enough to keep the studio together. www.ign.com/articles/hor...

Lifetime achievement: be an answer to the Thursday news quiz on The Guardian :D horses dot wtf indeed www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

🐎🐎🐎 Apparently, there's more to *Horses* than being banned from Steam, and PC Gamer's Maddi Chilton has some very interesting things to say about the game and its loans from cinema. Read the full article here: www.pcgamer.com/games/horror...

[ÉDITO | Les jeux bizarres en voie d’extinction : le cas Horses et la purge silencieuse] 📝 Vous avez sûrement vu la censure qu'a subi Horses de @santaragione.com. @juliendjoubri.pointnthink.fr a épluché plusieurs articles pour comprendre cette purge sur Steam. 👉 www.pointnthink.fr/fr/les-jeux-...

Woke isn't killing games, automated curation is.

if you want videogames to not just be a mainstream entertainment product with pipelines that require cut corners both artistically and in production then you're going to have to push for that at a scale we haven't seen before - because the majority of the industry at large doesn't value that

Woke isn't killing games, automated curation is.

Only 14% of total time spent in new releases seems bad for new releases.

We love you @itch.io, but why is it not possible to disable links in comments? We have to manually delete multiple messages per day linking to malware disguised as fake updates to our game 😭

We love you @itch.io, but why is it not possible to disable links in comments? We have to manually delete multiple messages per day linking to malware disguised as fake updates to our game 😭

excerpts!

"scrum" is the past tense of "scream"

Assuming there isn’t more to this than we know, it is indeed very embarrassing to see an industry obsessed with being taken seriously as an art form self censor in this way. You need the grit if you want the pearl, dweebs. No amount of trotting out auteur film directors on stage offsets that need

Great video from @charalanahzard.bsky.social on this story, she's treated it with the nuance it deserves as always. Challenging art should be allowed into the world so it can be freely judged.

A fascinating article about the attempted murder of the not-even-very-shocking game HORSES that gets at why it was deplatformed based on the same "rules" that no one in the industry remembered in the case of many other games. aftermath.site/horses-indie...

NEW Renegade Cut about the Horses game and some other stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwMF...

"gameplay loop" is a malign thoughtpattern, free yourself from this meaningless toss

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At the very edge of gaming's most commercially-charged evening, we bring you @midfalutin.bsky.social's interview with the embattled developers of Horses, a game conceived and executed as a corrective to the very nature of modern gaming. vgbees.com/in-search-of...

Josh hits it.

Look I mispronounce shit all the time but the *disrespect* in calling one of the defining horror game developers of our time “Fractional Games”, and not correct it, blows my mind.

Let’s hope whoever decided to ban HORSES didn’t watch that Divinity trailer last night! 😱

I'm starting to think it wasn't a good idea to put all the world's communications in the hands of three American companies www.theguardian.com/global-devel...