About the Game
Your very own barn
You’ve finally saved up the money to get a plot of land with a run-down shack of a stable – It’s not much but it’s yours. Time for you and your trusted mare to start training, so you can participate in tournaments in the nearby town and grow your ramshackle yard into the stud farm of your dreams!
Take Care of your Horse(s)
Groom and comb your horses in crisp, satisfying care interactions that are grounded in realism without being tedious. Use your brush and hoofpick to avoid saddle sores and abscesses, and treat scrapes and injuries appropriately when they happen.
Train, Compete, Explore
Complete training exercises and build up your horse’s strength and confidence to qualify for competitions and earn prize money in show jumping and cross country. Take your horses out on trail rides for a change of pace and scenery – Whether it's in the forest, along the beach or through the mountains, you get to enjoy beautiful vistas and you never know what you might find along the way!
Breed & Evolve
Breed adorable foals to improve your stock over time. Foals will inherit a mix of their parents' coloring, white patterns and even personality traits. Carefully plan your stallion and mare pairings to bring out the best in your offspring, whether you’re going for looks or stats.
Upgrade & Manage
Save up for upgrading your buildings to make space for more horses and better meeting their needs. Hire staff to stay on top of care and training for a growing herd. Advanced building stages will unlock new training courses, staff applications and a high tech breeding station lab allows you to preview possible foals and sell more stud services.
Learn about the game and real horses
Horses of Hoofprint Bay is made by three horse girls who care a lot about these animals. While not every aspect of the game is completely realistic, we strive to be accurate and educational in every way that doesn’t compromise gameplay fun. An in-game library contains a lot of relevant equestrian knowledge about in-game and real life horses!
Customize and Modify
Edit the appearance of your character and tack items with built-in color picking tools, or even modify the game files to your liking to create custom color palettes. Whether you prefer sticking to a curated selection of available customization items and color combos, or want to start digging into easily accessible textures and text files to alter the appearance of horses and characters is entirely up to you.
This game is made entirely by humans without the assistance of generative AI.
Screenshots
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
Notable Changes
- New boots for the horse!
- Lesson tutorial skipable
- Richt click to zoom out yard overview
- Filter and sort horses at the breeder's sales stable
- Daily Activities in the office now have a much nicer layout
Full Changelog for v0.1.10
Features & Improvements
- Added new open front and tendon boots.
- Removed purple boots.
- Leg protection graphics update.
- Lesson tutorial skipable.
- Scritch spots slightly bigger colliders.
- Moved hay and water slightly further apart, so it's easier to grab the thing you want.
- Competition UI layout improvements.
- Slightly relaxed care rules for full boarders: a single missed dirt does not count as "missing care" any more.
- Messemodus (just some stuff like a screensaver for the GG Bavaria specifically)
- Same color selection in shop can ignore colors.
Bugfixes
- Removed money cheat from coin icon in competitions.
- Fixed foal hooves still showing dirt outside when clean. (only effective after new day)
- Adjusted stable position so it fits better for stable stage 1 + fields stage 2.
- Close course selection when closing move menu in stable.
- Another round of trying to fix the getting stuck on "out of breath after stumbling"
Changelog v0.1.11
Features & Improvements
- Right click to zoom out yard overview.
- Show day in "continue game" list when loading a save.
- Space as default jump key.
- Added strength, strength potential, endurance and endurance potential to training end screen.
- Added filter and sorting for horses at sales stable.
- Daily activities (medical report in office) made into a nice table.
- Quests get checked at the end of each ride.
- Refactored livery save data.
- Stable stage 3 graphics update. (not in the Demo)
- Adjusted building positions and default zoom positions in yard overview.
- Adjusted description of exhaustion in book.
- Adjusted description of the "buy second horse" quest.
- Adjusted the colliders for removing leg protection in tack edit menu.
Bugfixes
- Fixed environment version not always displaying correctly.
- Fixed music not playing when repeating training quickly.
- Fixed dragable hay disappearing behind stable.
- Fixed pregnant belly staying visible at sales stable.
- Hopefully fixed unintended linebreak for gait hints.
- Fixed "hole" in the ground at tutorial fork.
- Fixed visible seam in sidescroller riding arena background.
- Fixed engagement ring appearing multiple times when not returning to yard in between.
- Fixed being able to find the phone multiple times if not returning to yard in between.
- Fixed doubling of names and superfluous commas for dirty horses at competition start popup.
- Fixed superfluous comma at the end of the list of injuries after riding.
- Fixed "nothing available" text visible behind items in shop.
Changelog v0.1.12
Features & Improvements
- Horses drop near the mouse when dragging in yard overview.
- Some minor runtime optimizations in sidescroller.
- Adjusted volume for snort (praise) and squeal (explosive).
Bugfixes
- Fixed: Custom color tendon boot available too early.
- Fixed: Horses not selectable after changing building when already zoomed in.
- Fixed: Jump key rebind still showing W instead of space.
- Fixed: Auto jump for jump after apple tree didn't work any more.
- Adjusted auto jump for second jump after apple tree.
- Adjusted layering for log jumps.
A nasty bug snuck into the last update... Lessons are fixed now!
Changelog v0.1.9
Bugfixes
- Fixed: Can't start lessons in a freshly installed game.
- Fixed: Impossible times by competitors in Competition Low.
We made a week-one update for the demo to fix some issues and add improvements!
Notable Changes
- More settings available, like disabling sounds and some accessibility, e.g. zoom in lessons.
- Balancing, e.g. exercise cost for training courses.
- Pause riding and lessons on Esc.
- Horses can be switched between full stable groups.
- More QoL stuff.
- A lot of bugfixes.
Full Changelog for v0.1.6
Improvements
- Fade out music when course ends.
- Adjusted volume for "wrong correction sound" in lessons.
- Changed gait gate success & fail sounds.
- Lesson and lunging sounds can be disabled in the options.
- Added option to decrease background movement while riding/lunging.
- Yard music also plays at breeder and store.
- Replaced pitchfork in jumping obstacle with a spade.
- Zoomed in riding lessons.
- Updated horse dirt texture at hooves.
- Save files are now deletable.
- Added visible dirt from the outside when there is dirt/stones in the hooves.
- Added hooves getting dirty when coming back from a trail ride.
- Remember selected statistics values.
- Esc now pauses the riding instead of instantly aborting
- Changed the jeans jacket / black blouse slightly so it looks straight while riding (important for lessons)
- The hints for which key to press now use arrows instead of description for arrow keys.
- The hint for Spacebar now shows a wider key.
- Adjusted how much exercise the training and trails cost.
- Settings accessible from yard menu.
- Added popup to offer jump-off indicators.
- Shortened tiny forest trail.
- Boarders now have icons instead of (Ext) in their name. (Only for new boarders, not existing ones)
- Explanation for body condition in stats book in library.
- Show remaining duration of stay for boarders in the horse book.
- Show toast when discovering special horse color.
- Show available trailer space for competitions.
- Increased training fee for boarders.
- Show arrows to indicate there's more than 3 horses at the game start.
- Removed boarders from the riding instructor's list of horses.
Bugfixes
- Fixed horses you just bought not properly disappearing from the breeder.
- Disable lunge line when not wearing a bridle.
- Adjusted girth for pregnant mares while selecting tack.
- Fixed some typos.
- Fixed Esc not working in riding scene (due to disabled actionMap).
- Fixed boarders getting hungry too much.
- Fixed tobiano horse mane graphics in sidescroller.
- Snuck in a LogError for the 10k surprise money and removed a likely culprit.
- Fixed: Missing warning popup when foals grow up.
- Removed a bunch of unused sprites from Ui-stuff.
- Fixed cut off background graphics in tutorial.
- Fixed: double clicking on End of Day Summary OK makes days skip.
- Fixed: lesson tutorial counted as exercise, often leading to exhaustion that was not warned about.
- Fixed: You could get stuck if horse was explosive, but you didn't yet finish the first training.
- Even less likely to hit the ledge in the forest.
Changelog v0.1.7
Improvements
- Added pause on Esc for lessons.
- Lessons can now be zoomed in and out.
Fixes
- Fixed: Starter horse not selectable.
- Fixed: Skipping 2 or more days if using Esc on the end of day screen.
- Fixed: Lesson/lunging feedback sound and background scrolling settings not displaying true value.
Changelog v0.1.8
Improvements
- Increased the rotation at the breeder from 1 horse per day to 3.
- Slight animation tweaks (horse walk, head hungry, head idle).
Bugfixes
- Fixed: Impossible times of competitors & missing time penalties.
- Fixed: Can't upgrade stable if boarder is about to leave.
- Fixed: You can "undo" exercise by backing up.
- Fixed: Autojump for water jump in showjumping training 4 and for gridwork.
- Fixed: Hoof boot missing from trail ride.
- Fixed: Can click through to the background on the End of Day screen.
- Fixed: Missing new translations.
Current Release
Build 26472489
Uploaded Nov 06, 2026
System Requirements
How to Install
Horses of Hoofprint Bay.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
Needed when extracting (WinRAR / 7-Zip) — not a site login.
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