An Update from the Dev Team

Hi everyone,

Thank you for all your feedback, bug reports, suggestions, and reviews. We’re thrilled to see so many of you enjoying the game, sharing your horses and screenshots and more. At the same time, we are monitoring reviews and discussions for your critical feedback as well and of course tracking and tackling the bugs you’ve been reporting.

We’re happy to have gotten Patch 1.1.3. with a few further urgent bugfixes out before the winter holidays – find the detailed patch notes over here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1474740/view/3649634703655132260

Upcoming Bugfixes

With that, our work on Horse Tales is not done, however.

We’re aware of several more issues that still need to be resolved, including, but not limited to:

• Further fixes for horses’ genetic test results, unfortunately some additional issues have snuck into the face markings. If you encounter any further issues with your horses’ gene testing, please make sure to report them in detail.

• Further fixes re. trait training. We see some of you report that traits like “Out of Shape” and “Lazy Sprinter” aren’t removed from your horses properly after completing the relevant trait missions. If you’re affected by this, please consider sending us your save game so we can investigate.

• Some of you noticed that one tack set and one building blueprint are actually not findable in the game! This is not an intentional omission and will be fixed in an upcoming patch.

Even if we’re aware of a problem, additional bug reports can help us gather more information on it, and reports from multiple players help us prioritize the issues based on their frequency. Additional screenshots, info and save games can help us a lot too!

With that in mind, please keep sending us details on any issues you encounter to support@microids.com, we hugely appreciate your support 💪

Upcoming Improvements

Apart from Bugfixes (and after greenlight from Microids), we’re also planning to take some commonly requested improvements to heart and will be hopefully tackling these soon:

• Misc. Performance Improvements to reduce resolution scaling (blurriness) on Switch

• Extended Camera settings based on commonly reported issues with the current camera

• Balancing adjustments, specifically for easier access to peppermints*

• Fast-Travel between home bases (Emerald Estate and Homesteads), once each base has been reached once

• Note: If the peppermint balancing is currently keeping you from breeding horses, remember that the treats needed for breeding depend on what the parent horses prefer. Horses that prefer apples, carrots or sunflowers tend to make for easier keepers!

Content and Project Scope

We also see that many of you would love for Horse Tales to be bigger than what it already is: more story, more NPCs, more horse breeds, more things to do and see in the world…

We love to see your enthusiasm for this and completely agree that there’s a lot of potential in this genre.

We cannot announce or promise any content updates or big expansions at the moment. But both developer Aesir Interactive and publisher Microids are eagerly listening to all of your feedback and requests and taking notes for the future.

Thank you all for your support, your feedback, your reviews and for your patience while we react to them 🙏❤️

~ The Horse Tales Team at Aesir Interactive 🐴🐴