Pferd & Pony – Mein Pferdehof 2

Summary
Mein Pferdehof 2 is a stable management simulation. There is no real story apart from inheriting the horse farm with the task to build it up again. You start with one horse and you earn money by breeding and selling horses, housing guests, and winning tournaments. The game is round-based, you decide when you've finished with a round and manually start a new round. Starting a new round will affect horse stats like hunger or exercise.

Game Design
The game's art style is mostly 2D with an attempt of realistic textures / 3D-looking horse models. They kept the design concept of the prequel, but changed the graphics. There is a farm overview and a town overview, from which you can enter the different locations. There's no open world, you navigate by mouse (mostly) within a menu button area, except in riding mode, when you control the horse via keyboard in a 3D environment. The game saves automatically after every action you do. Nothing gets lost and you can not return to a former savepoint.

Character customization
You can customize your player character with a range of different skin tones (unfortunately including very stereotypical ones rather than realistic), facial expressions, hair styles, accessoires and clothing. Your image will be shown in the papers of horses you breed. Since tournaments require tournament dress, while the rest of the game doesn't mind what you wear, it's common to just stick with tournament tack at all times. You do not have to purchase anything, you just need to pick and wear it. You also need to decide whether you're a boy or a girl, which does not influence the character customization apart from a body shape and underwear change. In riding mode, Character Model in Riding Mode info pls While you can buy a few different items of horse tack, it all looks the same on the horse (in riding mode, there's a generic saddle and bridle) and makes no difference in stats, either. is this true?

Locations
There are two overview maps - one for your horse farm and one for the town. On the horse farm overview, you can access the stable, office building, and breeding pasture; other parcels can not be entered, but you can buy parcels, upgrade or demolish buildings from this menu. These parcels are a parking lot, a guest house, a pasture, a training parcours, a round pen, an indoor riding arena, and a couple of fields to grow grain. From the farm overview, you can also get into town, or start a new round. On the town overview, you can access the vet, farrier, breeder, retailer, tournament arena, bank, and auction house.

Your Stable starts out with one stall, but you can upgrade it to up to 32 stalls. With each upgrade, the stable background gets a bit more fancy.

Horse Care
Every round, your horses' stats are changed as the horse grows hungry, thirsty, dirty, and restless. If you don't take care of their basic needs, horses will lose trust, as well as strength and endurance if they are not exercised. You can regain this across a few rounds by taking better care and giving them exercise. Via the menu in the stall, you can take care of all needs, equip tack, or change the location of the horse (pasture, stall, trailer, breeding pasture, or training paddock). In the horse book, you can see information about your horses name, sex, pedigree, breeder, age, coat color, stats, tournament level, and sales price. Some stats you can raise to 100% by regular horse care, sometimes over a span of a few rounds - these are trust, hooves, exercise, coat, feed, and water. Other stats are capped at individual values that you can increase by breeding better horses - these are health, strength, and endurance.

The horse has idle animations that slightly change based on its health and trust, and the cleanliness of the stall.

If feed, water, or health stat falls to a critical level and you don't do anything about it, you risk it being taken away by animal welfare. You will probably get a warning first to take better care, if you ignore that, your horse will be taken away and be gone from the game irrevocably.

Keeping a horse in the pasture will freeze its feed and excercise stat, but lose a tiny amount of water stat each night. This means you can go for how many rounds? without caring for your pastured horses. They will lose trust, but unlike the prequel, trust gain per round isn't capped, so you can gain full trust back by caring for / petting your horse.

Food Stats
i need to recalculate that pricing, still missing info

Better food fills up more stat points, as you can see in the table. The water gain or loss doesn't really matter, as you have unlimited water supply with one click. Since you can only feed a horse 4 portions of any food per round, best quality is the only type allowing you to feed a very hungry horse all the way. Unless you need to save money, you can use this type all the time, otherwise you can alternate and mix. If you plan on riding the horse, make sure to not feed it before, as you already use up portions that after riding will just be enough to fill the horse's stomach. * The price is calculated by bulk price, which is in effect from 50 portions upwards.

Differences between Releases
This game is very similar to its prequel. It's basically this game with a graphics update, some mechanics changed, and a few features added. The stud farm and town setup is the same with all its locations, the stalls have the same design (just fitted with the new graphics), the sounds of the game are the same, the available tack, feed types, etc are the same, even the texts explaining the game / notifications / internal error messages. New features: Updated/changed mechanics: Fans of Mein Pferdehof might enjoy this sequel as well, although it is missing the cartoony charm of the first game.
 * 3D riding
 * online-function for trading horses with other players (the website platform for this is not available anymore).
 * horses age slower (foals grow up later, pregnancy takes longer)
 * a lot more stalls (up to 32, but including boarded guest horses)
 * horses staying in the pasture over night don't lose excercise or feed stats

Additional Media
File:My Horse Farm - Welcome to Trotterville Manual.pdf