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Saddle up with friends and investigate a dark mystery, where each trail leads to wonder and intrigue. A string of events has set the idyllic island on edge. Discover the truth behind your mother’s disappearance and a local's sudden death. For fans of horses, murder mysteries, and cozy exploration!
Equinox: Homecoming is a cozy, horses and mystery game
developed and published by Blue Scarab Entertainment.
Released on May 08th 2025 is available in English only on Windows.
It has received 381 reviews of which 300 were positive and 81 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Processor: i9-9900K 3.6 GHz 8 Core
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce RTX 2070
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 20 GB available space
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I was iffy due to how many negative reviews line this game page. But, honestly upon purchasing is when i realized this games actual potential. Yes, it is buggy; BUT, it is a game that is in EA. That is what half of the negative reviews are not getting. The game its self thus far is absolutely stunning, and brings me back to my 2015 middleschool horse girl era, and just tickles the itch i've had for years. I can't wait to see how far this game actually goes.
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I'll start with the disadvantages of the game : 1. Collecting collectibles (flowers, horns, etc.). This is an interesting detail in the game, but it is very unpleasant to collect these items, since in order to take it you need to "aim" at a certain degree. 2. Add at least some jump for the horse in free mode, sometimes it is very necessary. 3. The opportunity to change the color of the horse. I really wanted to immerse myself in the game as soon as possible, and therefore I did not sit long on creating a horse, give me the opportunity to change it at least once. Maybe for 8 hours of play, that's all that really bothers me. Since the game has an early access status, I don't pay attention to minor bugs, as I'm sure they will disappear. One of the advantages of this game is : 1. The horse's impeccable physics and gaits, I can admire it forever. I see how the developers tried to make atypical animations downloaded from the Internet for free, and worked out good physics. It's just a masterpiece. 2. Music. I think it's just great. 3. SIDE QUESTS AND WEEKLY TASKS. Thank you so much for so many tasks. It's just a miracle. When I saw how much and where to run to do the quest, I was happy about it and was afraid that it would all end soon and I would just run through the forest, but no! I believe and want you to continue improving this project, because the beginning is really AWESOME, the game has a good level of development for EARLY ACCESS. Unlike other crude and boring games. 4. Beautiful landscape. The alternation of day and night looks beautiful and expensive, the landscape is smoothed out and the world is beautifully designed. P.S. I hope my review has helped a future buyer or developers to create upcoming global updates.
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I've debated if I should recommend this game or not, and I've decided to recommend it HOWEVER I would be remiss if I didn't talk about the glaring flaws of the game, which is important if you are deciding to purchase. Yes, the game is early access. But early access does not negate it from criticism. One of the first and most noticeable issues you will encounter as you explore this beautiful world is that its not exactly easy to get around, which has a simple solution from the developers should they decide to go this route. You cannot make your horse jump unless you're in a race and going over a jump designed for the race. This creates frustrating situations where you're getting stuck on the smallest ledge, you cannot continue, and you must go around. Sometimes going around the obstacle takes you a good ways away from your destination, and its very annoying. The map is gorgeous and dynamic and massive, a lot of the gameplay loop is simply exploring this map. So when you can't explore without getting stuck on a small ledge, or a fence forcing you to turn around, or coming to a halt because of a tree stump, it really pulls you out of the immersion. Having the ability to simply jump (like our characters can on foot) would alleviate a lot of these frustrations. Second, the minimap. As you're going around doing quests, you'll look to your minimap to guide you to your destination, but you might have a hard time identifying where its pointing you. That's because most of the indicators are all in a range of pale yellow to orange, (aside from side quests being blue) which blend in far too much with the color of the lines around the minimap. I would much prefer them to be more noticeable. Third, lets talk about the gameplay loop. Personally, I enjoy the current gameplay loop but I don't think its for everyone. After you complete the first chapter, all you have to do at that point is races, and weekly quests. (Not sure why they're called weekly quests, they come in a batch of four and once you complete those four, it gives you four new ones with no end in sight) These quests follow similar fashion, go out and explore while you collect certain items, or go talk to someone, pick something up and bring it to someone else. And thats pretty much it. The purpose of these quests is to gain reputation so you can purchase cosmetics, but it takes a great deal of time to increase reputation which leads to this gameplay loop being incredibly grindy, at times annoying because if the inability to make your horse jump small objects, and the ability to get lost easy as the indicators on the minimap can be hard to see. Thats not even mentioning the character creator, which is the last negative I will be going over in my review. I've noticed a lot of games these days where the lighting in the character creator is not at all reflective of the lighting you will see in game and Equinox: Homecoming is no exception. Thus, you don't truly know if you like the look of your character and your horse until you're in the game, and you cannot change the appearance once you do enter the game. This is downright frustrating. I do not understand why the character creator has such harsh lighting and I do not understand why we cannot change the look of our horse and character. It feels downright deceitful and it needs to be addressed. And I haven't even gotten to the horse creator, which feels rushed and ugly. There are three horse coats to choose from, which are fine for now (except for the champagne coat being forced to have a black mane) some pinto markings, leg markings and face markings. The pinto markings are diabolically bad. There are 3 tobiano markings, and it looks like someone spray painted the horse in MS Paint with no care for what a tobiano actually looks like. I cannot fully express how god awful the tobiano markings are, which does not align with the face markings and leg markings. The face and leg markings look great, its clear a lot of care went into them, so why did they spend 30 seconds making the tobiano markings and why is it so ugly. The roan markings are almost impossible to know what its going to look like in game because of the lighting in the horse creator, and the sabino markings are just pathetic. The regular bay coat doesnt even have white markings, and should you chose to add white markings on the regular bay, they're not white theyre more of a tan, light brown. And it genuinely looks horrible. Its clear that the body markings for the horses were cobbled together in a short time span with no regard, and that needs to be addressed. Simply put, the game needs more content outside of the main story and a stronger gameplay loop. It needs quality of life improvements, and the character creator needs to be overhauled entirely. I hope that the developers take their time working on these systems before launch. And yet, I still recommend the game. Yes, there are a lot of negatives, yes the game is brand new in early access, and yes, the game has a LOT of work to do before its ready to ship in full. However, I do not regret my purchase for one moment. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time in Alderwood, I am eager to log on and grind my quests, I am eager to gain reputation and unlock new cosmetics. I love being fully immersed in this beautiful world. The music is just incredible, the world feels alive, and I am SO excited for the future of Equinox: Homecoming. That's why I'm harsh and critical. Because I really want this game to be good. It has limitless potential, and its filling a much needed gap in the market: a horse game modeled for an older audience. A horse game that is willing to take on darker themes, a horse game that is acknowledging the millions of adults that are passionate for horses that have had to make do with games geared towards kids because its all that's available to us. I want a game like this, and I want it to be good. I'm excited to be in on the early access, I'm excited to watch it grow, I'm excited for feeling like I have a voice in the direction of the game, and I truly do hope that the developers take the time to listen to what we have to say and to deliver on what they've promised us. All that to say, yes I do recommend this game.
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How to make a great game? Work with the community, for the community and improve from what the community gives you. This game is exactly what the horse-game-community asked for. A certain other horse MMO is loosing players after messing up their original mysterious story that kept players invested and active to solve it's mystery. A game that has lost it's original charm and does not even know it's own story anymore. Here the goal and story seems clear. The genre is set and the target audience is more adult, not targetting younger and younger players. This seems to have a great future if the focus stays with the community and the storytelling. There is not much much yet to review in such an early stage of early access, but the world is big, the few finished cinematics are well done and the sounds are great. You can see the love for details and passion they have for this project. Something that goes missing with other game studios... the pressure of capitalism takes over passion. Realistically speaking it's clear there will be microtransactions / gold purchases included at some point. A one time payment for the game does not finance multiple servers and development running for years, that's something every player should keep in mind when getting into the game. I can already see the outrage even though it's clear as day that this has to happen at some point much later in their game development. Just as a little reminder, staay realistic about a games finances everyone and this game can thrive. I hope this game has a bright and long future ahead.
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The game has a wonderfully dark story in comparison to other horse games, the scenery is stunning and the finished cutscenes are very well made, the characters have a lot of expressions and most of the dialogue feels natural, the soundtrack is absolutely amazing as well. While there are some mild connection issues (I mean duh, the game came out less than 2 hours ago) it's running perfectly on my system with the highest graphic settings. I just hope there will be a cutscene gallery for later rewatching, especially since some cutscenes are still placeholders. Update: Theres currently around 6 hours of playtime from my own experience. There were a few bugs but nothing too major, for some I had to exit to main menu and re-enter but the loading time was quick and no progress was lost. There is currently one bugged quest, the flower delivery will not work if you're doing it for a second time. It also seems that plants do not respawn quick, as I can't find any anymore, I think it would be better for them to respawn every few minutes instead of (seemingly) daily. Overall, I really enjoyed playing and will continue to do so. I usually prefer singleplayer games but you are in no way forced to interact with other players and they make the world feel more alive.
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Equinox: Homecoming is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam.
Equinox: Homecoming is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 24.50€ on Steam.
Equinox: Homecoming received 300 positive votes out of a total of 381 achieving a rating of 7.39.
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Equinox: Homecoming was developed and published by Blue Scarab Entertainment.
Equinox: Homecoming is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Equinox: Homecoming is not playable on MacOS.
Equinox: Homecoming is not playable on Linux.
Equinox: Homecoming is a multi-player game.
Equinox: Homecoming features PvP mode where you can test your skills against other players.
Equinox: Homecoming does not currently offer any DLC.
Equinox: Homecoming does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Equinox: Homecoming does not support Steam Remote Play.
Equinox: Homecoming is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Equinox: Homecoming.
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Blue Scarab Entertainment
Publisher
Blue Scarab Entertainment
Release
08 May 2025
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