Equestrian Training

I'll be straight with you: this is not a game I would normally touch with a ten-foot lunge whip. But someone has to write the honest take, so here we are. Equestrian Training is an edutainment title built around the official FFE Galop diploma system, which is the French horse-riding federation's structured exam ladder running from level 1 through level 7. The core loop is a quiz bank of 2,500 questions written by actual equestrian professionals, covering riding technique, horse care, and grooming. You drill those questions in a customizable Training mode (pick your topic, set your question count, toggle a timer), then prove yourself in an Exam mode that throws 20 timed questions at you per level. Clear an exam, unlock the next. Repeat seven times. The mini-game side of things breaks into three categories: an endurance race where you manage your horse's heart rate by throttling speed up and down, a show-jumping course that asks you to hit button prompts when on-screen markers align, and a grooming session where you clean and care for the horse in full. Fifteen-plus variations are spread across those three buckets. None of them are deep by any gaming standard, but they function as a pressure-valve between quiz sessions and keep younger players engaged. The jumping course in particular has just enough reaction-timing to feel like a small game rather than a menu. Multiplayer is local-only, up to four players, and covers both the competitive quiz modes and the co-op practical exercises. That couch setup is genuinely the most interesting social angle here, if you have young riders in the house who can quiz each other before a real lesson. The Steam community has flagged at least one broken achievement (the grooming mini-game controls have also caused confusion for some players), so go in with lowered expectations on the polish front. No online component, no ranked mode, no netcode to evaluate. That is not a failing so much as a statement of scope. The hard limit of this title is geographic and demographic. The content is explicitly tuned to French Galop regulations, and the developer notes that some material may not apply outside France. If you are a UK or US rider prepping for your own certification structure, the question bank is going to diverge from what you actually need to know. For the specific audience it targets, the structured progression through seven exam levels with a stats dashboard tracking your weak spots is a reasonably solid revision tool dressed up as a casual game. For anyone outside that lane, there is nothing here to hold attention past the first thirty minutes. Fred, Scout Team