Not to actually buy anything, I should stress.

I’m not one for cosmetics in any shape or form.

But I just wanted to see what ludicrous things it was trying to sell me for real human money.

Diablo 4’s costly horse next to screenshots from several other horse games on Steam

For a mangey rope bridle and a bone dagger on its side!

(you could see it in the header image up top there).

Ridiculous, I exclaimed, and promptly shut down my PC.

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I should stress, I’m not advocating people actually buy these horse games.

I have not played them, nor can I vouch for their quality.

At long last, my Mario Kart fly-by techniques can be put to good use in another game.

Horse racers compete in Horse Rally Racing

And best of all, we still have 5.60 left in our budget.

“, I am immediately enthralled by the prospect of Riding Horse School.

Don’t knock the complete lack of lighting tech in it either.

A woman jumps up onto a horse’s saddle in Riding Horse School

Far Away Horse- 79p

You have a single task in Far Away Horse.

Walk until you reach its titular far away horse.

That’s the game.

A voxel horse from Far Away Horse

Best of all, we still have 4.48 to spend on more horse games.

And your prize is some wonderful horse artwork.

Instantly better than horse armour, wouldn’t you say?

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And we’ve still got 3.59 to spend on more games.

Your classic onrails shooter fare, it would seem.

Look at that mad whale boy carving up the sky above, there?

A cowboy aims a bow and arrow at a flying whale in Arrowpoint

Arrowpoint has suddenly become the western cousin ofDeath Stranding, and I’m 100% here for it.

Heck, this came out in 2017.

That simply won’t do inthiswildlife park, lemme tell you.

A horse runs on a treadmill in Wildlife Park 2 - Horses

So keep fighting the good fight, horse games.

You’ll get your due one day.