I've tried lots of virtual horse games and in my opinion, Horse Isle (HI) is definitly the best! Unlike so many other games, the game itself is all in one window, so there is no clicking on different links and waiting for pages to load. You can see yourself and other players riding or walking around, and the art is amazing. The game is very easy to navigate, is appropriate for all ages and is free!
To join simply click on one of the many linked pictures on this thread and you will be taken directly to the site! My username on HI is HorsesForCourses and I play on palomino server. Feel free to add me as a buddy and/or mail or pm me for help or a chat. I may even give you something to help you start off on the wonderful world of Horse Isle!
Already have a HI account? Feel free to post your username here! I'd love to see who else plays =]
Please note though that this is a thread about Horse Isle 1, not Horse Isle 2 (Legend of the Esrohs) and would prefer that you don't talk about it here
Below text and images takin from the Horse Isle website.
About:
Horse Isle is a vast multi-player horse based world. It allows for many players to interact while searching for wild horses roaming the lands. Once you have a horse, you can train it, take care of it, and compete with other players. Although the world graphics are simple 2D, they have been beautifully designed to create an interesting and vast world to explore. This land is completely non-violent. A great place for any aged player to have fun.
Features:
Several different entertaining game activities:
- Capturing, training, and competing with your horses. These involve racing, jumping, dressage - all many-player games. Winning these events takes a combination of your horse's abilities, and your skill at the particular game.
- Completing mini-games throughout the world for fun and game money. Many are multiplayer also.
- Solving story-based quests and adventures by talking with characters in the game. There is a large variation of quests, from buried treasure, labyrinths, and painting, to simply returning someone's books!
- Buying and building up your very own ranch, making a piece of Horse Isle your very own!
- Naming and taking care of your horses. Finding them better tack, or even finding your horse a nice pet!
- Interacting with other players via chat, private chat, postal messages, actions, trading, competitive mini-games, and cooperative mini-games. Group activities include drawing rooms, music rooms, and poetry rooms!
- Searching the world for buried treasures, rare items, and hidden adventures.
- Trying to get the highest score or best times of many different tracked games.
Ever-expanding content within the world includes:
- 20+ unique communities located on different islands and climates. With unique weather systems.
- Over 50 unique horse breeds, very detailed with professional renderings of each breed in each color. More added regularly.
- 400+ computer characters (residents) which you can interact with to complete adventures and learn things.
- 300+ Adventure Quests. Completing these can earn you awards and bonuses.
-Hundreds of unique objects that can be found in the world or handled during quests.
- 60+ unique minigames, many horse-based.
- Many completely original soundtracks and game musics, professionally produced.
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