[Discord] Devs' Q&A - December 2025

Once the Greek Gods of the Olympus are done with Zeus, will they start again with Athena, so anyone who didn’t get her has the chance, while everyone who already won her gets to start immediately with 25 fragments of the side divines in the Boss Room? Or how will it work?
🎮 Yes and no. We are going to try something new with the Ascent once the Zeus season is done. We are not satisfied with the current version of this mode, as too few players play it each season.
Starting in January, we are going to make the mode intermittent. This means that right after the Zeus season is done, you will not be able to play the Ascent for 3 weeks. Then we will inaugurate a new boss series for a 3-week season. Then there will be another 3 weeks without Ascent, then there will be a "rerun" season with the old Greek gods' series starting again from the top, meaning Athena. Then 3 weeks off, then a new boss from the new series, etc. We are going to try this approach and see if it performs as well as we'd like. We don't expect it to be the final form of the Ascent of Olympus as there are other changes we'd like to make that will have to come later.

Are you planning to add the fragment preview to the mobile version of the game? When you are in the middle of a round, you can choose paths for fragments. On the classical version, it is possible to see which route gives which fragments. On mobile version this is not possible. And especially for the 'in between' fragments that cannot be seen from the overview page.
🎮 We are planning a bigger change to the mobile version that will address this issue.

How does the inclusion of non-divine Special Horses fare? That Yggdrasil and the Legendaries won’t show up is clear, due to how they work, but what about the fact that we have yet to see any Wild horses, Chimeras or Pet Horses? Are there any plans for them to show up at some point?
🎮 We want to avoid giving away Divines which give Passes in the Rowgue, it's already very easy for cheaters to get "free" passes, and it's hurting the whole game and thus our ability to maintain it, so we want to avoid digging our own grave (and yours as well).

Are there plans to introduce new events, or are we doomed to have the same ones over and over again?
🎮 We are hard at work on finishing a brand-new event, which you should be able to play as soon as January. The ambassadors tried it last summer, and we made some modifications based on their feedback. Initially, our plan was to release this new event for the 20-year anniversary, but more pressing and less visible priorities prevented us from doing so. This event will last 3 weeks and will be playable in parallel with our classical events.
We also have plans for more new events, but given our current bandwidth, it's very unlikely that we will be able to release any in 2026.

Since the Creation space is ever expanding, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find the ray you are looking for, if you don't know it by name. Would you ever consider adding more filter options besides just the colours? Maybe a small, standard set of tags that the artists can choose from when submitting a ray, such as "outdoors", "indoors", "under water", "space" etc.
🎮 We are very aware of this issue, and we really want to improve the discoverability on the Creation space. We started working on a tag system like you describe, but we had to pause it due to (again) more pressing priorities and haven't found the time to advance on this subject for a while. We hope we will be able to soon, but as always, we can't commit to anything yet.

Will we ever see a private/personal coverings page similar to that of a team's private coverings page? This would be where a player can post/see/use coverings from any studs they own, and it would only be accessible by that one player. This would add ease for covering mares, instead of specifying the name of each mare from each studs' page every time you want to cover privately. I mainly have this issue with draft horses, as my whole AP farm is drafts, and there are never any public coverings, really. That's hundreds of times that I have to copy a mares name into a specific studs page!
🎮 For private coverings, it's not preferable: you may agree to offer a covering to a mare with a low Genetic Potential (GP), but not agree to a high GP one. So it's better to keep the current system with a reservation for a specific mare. Yet for personal coverings we agree it would be easier to have the same system as the team coverings, we'll add it to our backlog with no guarantee beyond that.

Is there any concern about the optics of so much more “pay to play” content? There have already been nearly double the number of paid offers in 2025 as there were in 2024 and there are still two months left in the year, which could be seen as a cash grab and discourage players who don’t have so much disposable income. Multiple new divines have been released in paid offer packs only just in the last 2 months.
🎮 We see Divine horses as an optional gameplay, they are never needed to train horses, breed them, collect coats or play events. We did increase the quantity of Divines we release, but on the other end we also increased the quantity of Divines players can get for free (through the Ascent of Olympus and as the Final Prize in some contests). Howrse is one of the rare free-to-play games where earning hard currency (Passes) is quite easy, and the more (and the better) you play, the more hard currency you can get, meaning that you can also afford more Divine horses if collecting them is what interests you.

What happened to all the different events we used to have? Now we only seem to have a couple that keep rotating. Are there plans to redo old events like Excavations, Object finding game (forgot name, we had one for Amira), Potions, Wandering horses, Decorating a Christmas tree... and many more I'm sure I forgot about.
🎮 When we decide to discontinue a specific event, it usually means that it's because it is not popular enough or that it is too costly to produce. Overall, modifying and producing older events or creating new ones is very time-consuming. When we focus on events, it means less time to improve other game features, modernize the UI, improve the mobile version, make the game easier to learn for new players etc. For the past few years, our priority has been to focus on these topics, and that means less time for variations in the events we propose, but we hope that in the future we will be able to spend more time improving the diversity of events you get to play in Howrse.

Will we get another change concerning the graphics of the horses’ coats, since too many breeds still look alike?
🎮 We are currently looking into this but can't promise anything yet.

Will keyboard controls/input ever be implemented for players who have long term physical issues, want to prevent physical issues, or want a different way to control their game?
🎮 Thank you for bringing this subject to our attention, we will investigate if there are improvements we can make in that direction.

Can we expect more updates to the new trophy system in the future (such as allowing us to display specific trophies on our profile pages, or adding new trophies for maybe HR's or missing divine series such as the Japanese, Celtics and Maoris), or do you consider them pretty much finished?
🎮 Yes, it's on our roadmap, but it may be a while before it makes it into the game.

Will there ever be an option to change the specialisation of our Equestrian Center? I know some people would love to do this, but it's impossible without resetting the entire account.
🎮 We'll add it to our long to-do pile.

Are there any new breeds or competitions/disciplines that may be coming available soon, or other major gameplay updates/refreshes?
🎮 Not in the near future, but it's definitely in our plans to find ways to refresh the main gameplay.

Will it be possible to see beforehand which daily mission we can trade with?
🎮 It is not planned for now.

Will all servers be 'pulled together' when it comes to available breeds? The available breeds differ per server, some servers have way more breeds than other servers.
🎮 It's our goal, yes, and we haven't been consistent in progressing toward it, but we will work toward improving this aspect.

Would you consider making it easier to offer coverings? For example, by adding the cogwheel-symbol, allowing breeders to choose a price and offer coverings until the stallion is out of energy (like how the competitions work with the VIP perk)? This would be a lot more efficient, and you wouldn't have to choose the price for every new covering when offering multiple from one horse.
🎮 That's a good idea, we could also add a field to select the number of coverings to offer.

Will draft horse team get a ranking in the future? They're not much different from other breeds, and the rewards could be specialized to Phanes egg and Zeus Lightning Bolt, and a 3. breeding item?
🎮 It is not planned in the near future.

Are there any plans to improve the way that breeding farms can be customized and organized? Such as custom tab colors or being able to choose the order of tab colors rather than a pre-set color order, moving multiple breeding farms to another tab at once, moving a whole tab and its contents to a different tab slot rather than only being able to move farms individually to a different tab, etc.
🎮 We plan to improve how breeding farms work in the next few years.

VIP perks like auto comping, training, feeding, and I don't know what else is just available on the app while desktop players would have to pay 1k passes per month to have them as well.
At the same time desktop players can see fragments on the paths they can choose, which is relevant especially on threshold 3.
Are there any plans on making features from one "version" of the game available to the other one as well?
🎮 We are planning big improvements to the mobile version that should reduce the differences of possibilities between both versions of the game.

Will there ever be consideration (or is there a plan in the works) for re-hauling the "Retired Golden Apple coats per species" Collection? On servers like International, it is legitimately impossible to complete, since some coats have 1-5 copies each. I would LOVE some insight on this.
🎮 We would really like to improve this part of the game, but we haven't found the right format yet.

Will it be possible to get a guaranteed coat if you create a Golden Apple?
🎮 It is a fair idea, we'll add it to our backlog of improvements.