Pferd & Pony – Best Friends - Mein Pferd

Summary
The game is all about simulating you owning a horse. You start with a foal, which you have to take care of and can show in beauty pageants. Eventually it will grow up if your wrists survive that long.

Game Design
This game takes the simulation thing very seriously. In the stable you just have to run around and pick up items and directly use them on the horse that is standing there, no real minigame mechanics and no progress bars for the horse care or anything. You just see trends on the stats bars that will stop going in the right direction when whatever you are doing is no longer useful. Unfortunately, the dedication to this simulation thing did not extend to visible dirt that gets reduced or anything fancy like that.

Gameplay
TODO

Trivia
Your saves appear as horses running around in the pasture on the main menu screen, which you can click to continue playing with that horse.

Differences between Releases
There is a “Special Edition” which includes the following bonus features:

An editor for horse decoration Any shop is now accessible The possibility to longe horses Exchangeable hairstyles for the horses An online mode to compare results with other players. A pin board showing pictures of successful moments

System Requirements & Compatibility
Minimal Requirements: WIN 2000 / XP CPU 1,2 GHz Pentium / AMD 256 MB RAM Graphics card: GeForce 3 (or similar) with 64 MB RAM 600 MB free disk space DirectX compatible sound card CD-ROM drive, keyboard, mouse

Recommended: WIN 2000 / XP CPU 1,8 GHz 256 MB RAM Graphics card: GeForce 4Ti with 128 MB RAM 600 MB free disk space DirectX compatible sound card CD-ROM drive, keyboard, mouse

Compatibility: TODO: Sarto, you tried some stuff to run this on a modern machine, right? Maybe fill in what the problems were here. Runs fine on a dedicated XP machine.