Best Horse Games for PS5 & PS4

Why it's here: The best horse game on PlayStation is not sold as one. Your horse in Red Dead Redemption 2 is a relationship you maintain: you brush it, feed it, calm it when a predator is near, and raise a bond that unlocks new moves. Breeds handle differently, and a horse you lose is gone for good. The complaint in stored player reviews is slow travel and forced riding sequences, which on this list reads as a recommendation. It is rated 4.76 from more than 476,000 PlayStation players, Mature 17+, and included with PS Plus Extra. Start here.

Why it's here: The dedicated horse game I would hand a younger rider first. You ride out with four friends into the autumn town of Hazelwood, help at the riding stables, enter a photo contest and customise both rider and horse between a run of mini-games. Steam reviews are Positive, 27 of 31, crediting the voiceovers and smoother controls added since the first game. The recurring complaint is the lack of fast travel. It holds 4.15 from 40 PlayStation ratings, is rated Everyone and is a native PS5 release. The safest buy here for a child who loves horses.

Why it's here: The most demanding saddle on the list. Fifteenth-century Bohemia is too large to walk, so your horse is transport, pack animal and getaway all at once, with its own stats to weigh and its own tack to upgrade. The game simulates rather than abstracts, and riding is no exception. Player reviews are split by platform: Steam reviewers love it, while PlayStation reviewers are more frustrated by the combat and the save system. It is rated 4.61 from about 42,300 PlayStation players, Mature 17+, and PS5 only. Take it if you want riding with consequences.

Why it's here: If breeding is why you are here, this is the one built around it. You tame wild horses on a peninsula, pair them for traits and rebuild a ruined family ranch around the results, with races to test each new foal. The caveat is real: Steam reviews sit at Mixed, 423 positive of 696, and the recurring complaints are bugs, a short main story and features sold as DLC. PlayStation players rate it 3.51 from 150 ratings. It is rated Everyone and runs natively on PS5 and PS4. Worth it for the taming and breeding system, at a discount.

Why it's here: You pick one horse in the first hour, give it a name, and it stays yours for the rest of the game. That single choice is why Ghost of Tsushima belongs on a horse list: there is no stable to manage, only one companion that comes when you whistle and follows the wind across the island with you. The stored player reviews flag traversal that turns janky in places. It is rated 4.6 from more than 314,000 PlayStation players, Mature 17+, on PS5 and PS4. The one I would recommend to anyone who wants the ride itself to be the reward.

Why it's here: Roach is the most famous horse in games and still one of the more useful. A whistle brings her to you anywhere on the Continent, and you kit her out with saddles, saddlebags and blinders that raise her stamina, your carry weight and her nerve around monsters. Horse races dotted across the map pay out the better tack. The complaint Steam reviewers keep returning to is clunky combat, not the riding. It is rated 4.83 from more than 280,000 PlayStation players, Mature, on PS5 and PS4. Recommended if you want a great RPG that happens to have a great horse.

Why it's here: The only pure racing game on this list. Phar Lap puts you in the jockey seat and then in the owner's office: you breed horses through a genetic system, build a stable of champions and race online against up to eight players, with betting on the side. No written player reviews are stored for it, so there is no sentiment read to lean on. What there is: 4.12 from 342 PlayStation ratings, rated Everyone, a PS4 release from 2019. Choose it if the track is the whole appeal, and look elsewhere if you want to wander.

Why it's here: Agro is the only other living thing with you for most of this game, which is why the horse matters more here than in games ten times the size. You cross an empty land on her back to find sixteen colossi, and some of those fights are fought at full gallop. There are too few written player reviews stored for this one to summarise sentiment. The PS4 remake is rated 4.38 from about 61,500 PlayStation players, carries a Teen rating and sits in the PS Plus Extra catalogue. Start here if you want a horse as a companion rather than a stat sheet.

Why it's here: Nothing else on PlayStation treats the horse as a weapon system the way Bannerlord does. You fight from the saddle with lance, sword or bow, then lead your own cavalry into real-time battles across Calradia, where the mount under you changes how a charge lands. Steam reviewers praise the depth and the freedom, and the recurring complaints are crashes and battle AI. It is rated 4.33 from about 11,000 PlayStation players, Mature 17+, on PS5 and PS4. I would point strategy players here before any riding sim.

Why it's here: The pick for players who care more about the stable than the saddle. Windstorm, based on the Ostwind films, gives you one horse and the Kaltenbach estate, and asks you to groom him, scrape out his hooves and keep him in shape between rides. Steam reviews sit at Mostly Positive, 46 of 64, with repetitive missions and a short running time the recurring complaints. It holds 3.67 from 129 PlayStation ratings, is rated Everyone and is a PS4 release. Buy it on sale, for the horse care rather than the quests.