Wild Horse's Valley

Summary
Take the role of a lead stallion in a herd of wild horses. Collect herd members and make decisions how to react to events the herd encounters.

Game Design
2D art, featuring realistic horse models and landscapes. There are also some fantasy breeds.

Gameplay
Players start out with only a lead stallion. By using energy points, they can choose each turn to walk, trot, or gallop. For each step, it is possible to encounter an event. This is how players can grow their herd, as many of these encounters will allow horses to join. However, it is also possible to lose herd members through some of these events.

Ponies
In this game, all horses of all breeds are referred to as ponies. There are currently fourteen different models in the game, plus special premium horses. Each non-premium model comes in five or ten different coat varieties, currently adding up to 135 in total. Each coat is based on and named as realistic horse colors/patterns. When getting a new pony in an event, or when a foal grows up, its features will be randomly determined.

Ponies can be either mares and stallions, with different abilities depending on their sex. Stallions can challenge the lead stallion in a training battle once per day, while mares can be sent out to gather food and herbs once an hour. There are special collectible stallions that give a greater reward - 500 XP per day instead of the standard 30 XP - as well as Star Horses, which give 250 XP.

Each horse has a progress bar - for stallions, becoming lead stallion, and for mares, becoming pregnant and then birthing a foal. This bar can be progressed once per day. Star Horses have a special progress bar which grants 100 Tokens when it is full.

Ponies can be named, kicked out of the herd in exchange for Tokens. A limited number of herd members can be protected so they can't be lost in events or battles. Generally speaking, ponies are more of a gameplay commodity than individuals to become attached to, as they can get lost easily and are then immediately removed from the database.

Events
Events are fully randomized, independent of the gait you use. In each event, something happens to the player's herd. Some event outcomes are pre-determined, and some depend on the player's choice of two options - safe or risky. Choosing Safe tends to give small rewards - new herd members, XP, or items - but also means minimal loss of resources or herd members. Choosing Risky may give a larger reward, but it may also result in a negative outcome.

Events can be nature-based such as finding a spring or encountering an earthquake, social interactions with herd members, meeting predators, or another herd's lead stallion. With lead stallions, it is possible to attack them for potential rewards, including new herd members, or choose to flee, avoiding conflict. Losing battles or encountering natural disasters, such as tornadoes, will result in a loss of herd members.

Event appearances and outcomes depend on the amount of health left, level, herd size, the weather, etc. After each event, the herd will be in another biome with different weather conditions. Each biome has its own difficulty, meaning it costs more or less energy to keep moving from that territory.

Resources
The player's herd has a regular inventory to collect food items, which restore energy, and healing herbs which restore health. There is also an extended inventory to store other items, such as event rewards, or things found in the territory background of the player's lead stallion. Other items can restore health or energy, but may also have other uses, such as in limited time events.

Currency
The currency in Wild Horse's Valley is called Token. Tokens can be earned in events, by kicking ponies from the herd, level ups, and daily activities. Tokens can also be bought for real life money (1€ = 100 Token, discount for higher purchases). Tokens are used to protect ponies, exchange ponies with other players, or buy premium gameplay functions. However, it is possible to enjoy the game and earn the Tokens needed without spending money.

Herd Companions
Herd companions are little animals, sort of like decor, that is displayed alongside the herd leader. You can purchase herd companions in the token shop. Each one will give a certain benefit. Before these benefits are unlocked, the player needs to build trust with the companion. Each companion species has different likes or dislikes in bonding activity!

Using an ability will consume some trust points.

Battles
Besides the events of encountering predators or NPC lead stallions, your stallion can battle other player's stallions to steal one of their horses, or join alliances to battle NPC creatures. Battling is done by choosing from different actions against your opponent (my guess: much like Rock Paper Scissors). There is no visible battle, just points or health bars. On the herd screen, there's a "Battle" button. You can either enter defense mode, which lets other people fight your stallion for a chance to steal any of your non-protected horses while you get Tokens (at least as many Tokens as you'd get from kicking out a horse). Or you can attack other herds who have put on defense mode. This costs stats - strength, speed, and endurance equal to your herd size. If the battle is won, the player can steal one of the opponent's horses, or get some items. With an update in February of 2021, a Lead Stallion Lottery was implemented, where any battle won while in defense mode gives a lottery ticket. Once a week the lottery is done and a person wins a special lead stallion of their choice!

Multi Player Elements
So far, the only interactions between players are exchanging ponies to help each other completing their pony collection, and fighting other lead stallions for items, token, or ponies. Players can also cooperate in Alliances, where if they manage to defeat their common foe within a set time, all will get a reward. Fight moves may also give individual prizes.