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Snow Horse - snowboarding as an horse (Xbox One/Steam, spring 2016)

Indie dev Chris Figueroa announced his game is coming in spring 2016 to Xbox One and Steam.

Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCFAOv6b4e0

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SnowHorseGame/

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Really don't know what to think about it... it clearly puts itself in the silly game genre a la Goat Simulator, but this time it looks much more linear and narrow in scope.
 
It's always disappointing when the actual concept sounds interesting but the effort so half-assed. I'd be up for a decent snowboarding game, it's been a while. Pulling off mechanically satisfying tricks with a customizable horse and unlockable gear could be great.. but this?

Youtube bait it is.
 
i'm a fan of stupid games but the gameplay looks shallow and lazy, like it relies entirely on the joke to be enjoyable.

it just looks like a cynical grab for the goat simulator crowd.
 
it just looks like a cynical grab for the goat simulator crowd.

yeah this is what I see too. once goat came out and people realized there might be a market for ridiculously stupid/bad idea mixes, it spawns things like this.

destruction derby carrot farm!
frog shoe maker 2010!
wombat zombie simulator!
 
Yeah, this looks like Youtuber / Twitch Streamer Bait. I'd like it if the courses were closer to being proper snowboarding game quality. I'm not expecting SSX or 1080, but you know.

Can Streamer Bait be a genre now?

EDIT> It's already is a genre? Okay then.
 
One of these days one of these dumb looking physics-based games will be ignored until we find out it's actually Frog Fractions 2.
 
It's always disappointing when the actual concept sounds interesting but the effort so half-assed. I'd be up for a decent snowboarding game, it's been a while. Pulling off mechanically satisfying tricks with a customizable horse and unlockable gear could be great.. but this?

Youtube bait it is.
Totally agree, before I watched the trailer I thought this could be good since we haven't got a good snowboarding game. After I watched the trailer, the game just looked bad, wouldn't purchase just because its a horse.
 
First Tomb Raider, now this. When will Microsoft's moneyhatting end??
 
The sad fact is that in hand of a competent absurdal game developer (say, ones behind Roundabout) this concept could have ended up being a really fun game, but I don't see it working with that team.
 
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