Equestrian

Equestrian

Train your horse and manage your Equestrian Centre to be the best and win the championship horse jumping show

Designer(s): Hugo Silva
Artist(s):
Competitive and worker placement game

Base Game

35 mins Game Length

2 mins Setup Time

2-6 Players

Age 8+

Medium Low Weight

Horse Show is a strategy game where you need to train your horse and get him in the best performance to win the show competition.

With a resource management and work placement mechanisms, you will compete with your fellow friends to buy a horse train and get prepared for the season by upgrading your Equestrian Centre.

You can purchase horses from different breeds, buy tacks to improve the horse performance and strengths, upgrade your equipment to allow you to get more chances to win the Horse Jumping Competition.

Try to win the most competitions, get better horses and be the World Best Equestrian Center.

Points will be achieved through your competitions.

Components

1 box
1 rulebook
1 quick reference guide
1 turn & market mat
1 jumping show arena mat
6 equestrian centers mats
6 equestrian centers mats
36 wood horses meeples
15 1st prize tokens
15 2nd prize tokens
15 3rd prize tokens
16 heart tokens
60 coins tokens
32 event mini cards
30 horses cards
25 tacks upgrade cards
20 riders cards

Current project status:

Updates:

October 2025: Steady progress continues as Equestrian surpasses 50 playtests. Improved horse markets, smoother UI, and deeper event systems bring new life to the stables.

September 2025: Over 50 playtests completed! Featuring a smoother UI, rebalanced rules, richer events, and a deeper horse market.

August 2025: Equestrian’s End-of-Year Market was refined so players without a second stable can sell their horse (or a prize if short on coins) to acquire a new one. The Prize/Gold/VP conversion was also streamlined — 3 Prizes = 1 Gold = 1 VP, 2 Prizes = 2 Gold = 2 VP, 1 Prize = 3 Gold = 3 VP — and Gold no longer counts as VP at the end of the game.

July 2025: With online testing back in full stride and visual planning underway, July was all about refining gameplay and preparing to bring Equestrian’s world to life in vivid detail.

June 2025: June was all about building strong foundations — from business planning to renewed playtesting — as we prepare to bring Equestrian to life with quality, strategy, and care.

May 2025: Added a new token to indicate stable upgrades, Milestone Completed: The game has successfully undergone its first external playtest sessions with consistent feedback on mechanics and engagement, Next Step: Blind playtesting resumes June 7 at The Black Sheep, Dublin.

April 2025: Playtesting continues with a key new rule added and art development underway.

March 2025: With Tabletopia ready, key rule tweaks in place, and art direction underway, we’re gearing up for blind playtesting!

February 2025: Playtesting is in full swing, with exciting refinements including improved balance for riders and horses, revised turn order mechanics, enhanced event rewards, a redesigned turn mat, an arena mat with pole positions, adjusted starting coins, rebalanced event cards, a new end-of-event rule, an updated rulebook, and the beginning of the search for an artist, all leading up to blind playtesting—thank you for your invaluable feedback!

January 2025: Equestrian: Horse Show Mechanics 2.0, Now featuring Riders with interlinked relationship with their horses.

December 2024: Conducting playtests on the latest iteration, which features rebalanced starting cards, the addition of tokens representing horse wealth, and updated rules for potential future market sale prices of horses.

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