Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch

Summary
Announcement trailer

On Steam page: Get caught up in a beautiful horseback adventure! Explore the vast wild stretches surrounding you, meet the residents of the peninsula and forge friendships. Discover the secrets hidden on the island, Breed, tame and train horses – each with their own strengths and characteristics – and take part in thrilling races.

Your aunt has really let the family estate fall into disrepair – what remains of the once glorious stud farm is now rubble and ruins, and you are the only one who can do anything about it.

Features:
 * A horseback adventure in a captivating open world.
 * Breed the finest horses according to their stats, characteristics, and colors.
 * Personalize your ranch: build, improve and personalize your ruined ranch with a variety of buildings and decorations.
 * Gather resources, meet new friends, and complete quests to save your family’s legacy.

Game Design
3D cartoony

Horse breeds: Selle francais (French saddlebred), Irish cob (limited edition/DLC)

Differences between Releases
The limited edition (physical version only) comes with three post cards, an embroidered patch, stickers and a set of exclusive digital bonuses inlcuding the Knight tack set, the Irish Cob Horse Breed, three exclusive outfits and a unique avatar hairstyle. If the game is pre-ordered at participating retailers, it comes with a Unicorn tack set

Trivia
Since 2021, Alice Ruppert has worked as horse game consultant and creative producer during the game development. At the day of release announcement (June 2022), the game was under development for almost 2 years.

The NPCs during races are in fact recorded by developer team, who did the races as NPCs.

The game was released the same day as My life: Riding Stables 3.

The horse in the title screen is a buckskin that looks like Spirit, that was created for purpose and cannot be found in that exact shade in the game.

The game was nominated in the "Best Family Game" category of the German Video Game Awards.

Languages

 * PC (audio and subtitles) : English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
 * Switch : Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese