Riding Out
Riding Out is a horse-focused MMORPG where your main progression comes from building up a stable and raising mounts rather than chasing traditional fantasy combat. You spend your time training, feeding, breeding, riding for exploration or leisure, and competing in races and equestrian-style events, all while meeting other players in the shared world.
 | Publisher: UnexEvo Playerbase: Low Type: MMORPG Release Date: December 24, 2015 Pros: +Own and raise a personal virtual horse from the ground up. +Breeding system encourages hunting for desirable traits. +Lets players design custom courses for riding events. Cons: -Visuals feel dated compared to newer simulators. -English localization can be awkward and error-prone. -Technical issues and bugs can interrupt play. |
Riding Out Overview
Riding Out is an MMORPG built entirely around horses, developed and published by UnexEvo. Instead of selecting a combat class and rushing to endgame, you begin with very little and work toward getting your first horse by gathering resources and earning enough to make that initial purchase. From there, the game leans into stable management and long-term care, asking you to maintain a home for your animals and treat them more like pets than disposable mounts.
Exploration is done on horseback across a sizable open world, with a day and night cycle adding some atmosphere to routine tasks. As you expand your stable, you can tame horses, keep them well-fed, and use food grown from your own garden to support their upkeep. Breeding is a major pillar, letting you pair horses to pursue particular traits and gradually refine the kind of mount you want to raise.
On the activity side, Riding Out supports training and organized riding challenges. You can build your own event course, whether you are aiming for racing lines or a more show-style layout, then practice and compete to see how your horses perform. For players who prefer guided structure, there is also a solo quest system that provides objectives and a sense of progression beyond pure sandbox play.
Riding Out Key Features:
- Virtual Pet Horse – the core loop is caring for a horse you actually raise, not just a mount you summon.
- Stable Life – manage a stable, provide shelter and food, and build a routine around horse care.
- Breeding Horses – pair different horses to pursue specific traits and develop better lineages over time.
- Build a Course – design your own tracks or event layouts and use them for training and challenges.
- Questing – includes solo quests that add structure and a light story-driven progression path.
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Riding Out Review
Riding Out aims for a niche that most MMORPGs ignore, a persistent online world where horses are the entire point. If you are looking for a traditional MMO loop of combat, dungeons, and gear upgrades, this is not that kind of game. Its appeal is closer to a horse raising and riding simulator that happens to be online, with progression tied to your stable, your animals, and the time you invest in improving them.
The strongest part of the experience is the ownership fantasy. Starting with nothing and gradually working up to a stable and a reliable horse gives the early hours a clear sense of direction. Once you have a mount, the game’s routine, caring for it, feeding it, and training it, becomes the main “character build.” Breeding adds longer-term goals, because you can chase specific traits and try to produce better horses through planned pairings. That system provides the kind of optimization that MMO players often enjoy, just expressed through animals rather than stats on armor.
Exploration and riding are straightforward, and the open world structure supports casual play sessions well. The day and night cycle helps the world feel more alive, and it gives everyday tasks a little variety in mood. The ability to create your own courses is also a good idea for a community-driven game, because it encourages creativity and gives players something to share besides screenshots of their stables.
Where Riding Out struggles is in overall polish. The visuals show their age, and the presentation can feel behind modern simulation games. The English translation also has noticeable grammatical issues, which can make quests and UI text harder to follow than they should be. On top of that, bugs can undercut the relaxing rhythm the game is trying to create, especially when you are focused on careful routines like training and stable upkeep.
The playerbase is labeled as low, and that matters for an MMORPG built around social play. Even if you are content to play mostly solo, a quieter world can reduce the feeling of a living online community, and it may limit spontaneous interactions around events, racing, or shared areas. The solo quest system helps provide structure regardless of population, but the social side is still a key part of the genre.
Overall, Riding Out is best suited for players who specifically want a horse-centric online game and who can tolerate early-access rough edges. If the idea of raising, breeding, and training horses in a shared world is your main draw, there is a unique concept here. If you need high production values or a polished MMO feature set, it may feel too unfinished to recommend broadly.
Riding Out Links
Riding Out Official Site
Riding Out Steam Page
Riding Out Facebook Page
Riding Out Steam Greenlight Community Page
Riding Out System Requirements
Minimum Requirements (Windows):
Operating System: Windows 7
CPU: Dual Core
RAM: 512 MB RAM
Video Card: GTX 275
Hard Disk Space: 1 GB available space
Recommended Requirements (Windows):
Operating System: Windows 10
CPU: Quad Core
RAM: 2048 MB RAM
Video Card: GTX 660TI
Hard Disk Space: 2 GB available space
Riding Out Music & Soundtrack
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Riding Out Additional Information
Developer(s): UnexEvo
Publisher(s): UnexEvo
Language(s): English, German
Steam Greenlight Post: February 12, 2016
Steam Greenlight Award Date: May 25, 2016
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Development History / Background:
Riding Out is an MMORPG centered on horse ownership and stable-building, created and released by UnexEvo. The game first became available on December 24, 2015 as an early beta-style release distributed by UnexEvo. It was later submitted to Valve’s Steam Greenlight in February 2016 and received approval in May 2016. After that, Riding Out arrived on Steam in May 2016 as an early access title, continuing development while players could already participate and provide feedback.