- 🥳 Update 1.6.0 - Visual Clarity, Herd Rescues & Retro Chiptune Beats! - 22 September 2026
Hey everyone! 🙋♂️It is time for another major update for Horse Runner DX! Over the past few weeks, I have carefully read through all your Steam reviews and community threads.Update 1.6.0 directly tackles your most common feedback: improving visual readability during fast runs, giving runs more roguelite depth, and introducing a brand-new retro chiptune soundtrack that truly matches the fast-paced arcade spirit of the game.Here is everything new in Update 1.6.0:🌟Visual Clarity & ReadabilityReworked Obstacles: All obstacles (rocks, logs, hay bales) now feature punchier contrast and bright highlight outlines. They clearly pop against the background now, making jumps much fairer and more readable at top speed (and much friendlier for colorblind players).Cleaner Screen: Reduced the density of floating dust particles in the air to keep your vision clear when the action gets hectic.Unobstru…
- Joining Games Composed in Germany & Update Recap - 21 July 2026
Hi everyone! 🙋♂️I'm happy to share that Horse Runner DX is part of the Games Composed in Germany event this week. With new players joining the herd, I wanted to take a moment to recap some of the major improvements from the recent 1.5.0 update that make the game feel better than ever:New "Starting Herd" Feature: You can now start every run with up to 3 horses (or unicorns) to jump right into the action. I've also overhauled the UI with a new herd screen (inspired by Mario Kart). It makes choosing your starting horses and power-ups much more intuitive.Smoother Camera Movement: One of the main pieces of feedback was camera jitter at high speeds. I've re-engineered the camera smoothing to ensure a stable and pleasant experience, even when the pace gets chaotic.Steam Deck & High-FPS Support: For the tech enthusiasts - the custom engine now fully supports high refresh rate monitors for ult…
- 🥳 Update 1.5.0 - Build Your Starting Herd - 18 June 2026
Hey everyone! 🙋♂️This is by far the biggest update of Horse Runner DX! The new starting herd system lets you begin each run with up to 3 horses and create your own herd builds right from the start. Together with many gameplay, graphics and technical improvements, the game now feels faster, smoother and better than ever.Gameplay ImprovementsNew Herd Feature: You can now start every run with a custom herd of up to 3 horses instead of just one! Each horse contributes its own power-ups, allowing you to create different herd builds right from the start. This new feature should also make it possible to achieve some wild new high scores.Demo Update: If you've only tried the demo so far, you'll now find all the new features and improvements from this update in the demo version as well. In addition, the demo's progression has been completely revamped so that players can now experience much mor…
- 🦄 Update 1.3.5 - Visual Clarity & New Leaderboard - 7 April 2026
Hey everyone! 🙋♂️This update directly addresses the player feedback I've received over the past few weeks:ImprovementsImproved visual clarity: All obstacle graphics have been reworked, resulting in higher contrast and easier visibility. In addition, the colors of the background graphics were adjusted to reduce distractions. This makes the game more enjoyable and offers greater visual clarity.Improved leaderboard view: The old leaderboard always displayed the first 1000 high scores, which made it quite cluttered. Now, the top 20 and an area around your own high score are shown. Additionally, the next highest ranks (100, 200, ...) are displayed above your own high score.New friends leaderboard: In addition to the global high scores there's now a leaderboard that shows only you and your friends. This makes it easier to compare your high scores with friends.Improved herd jumping: When one…
- 🦄 Update 1.3.2 - Improved Graphics & Sound - 26 November 2025
Hey everyone! 🙋♂️This update brings improved graphics, new ambient sounds and many small improvements: Lots of little things that make the game prettier and more enjoyable :-)Improved Graphics & SoundImproved graphics: The graphics engine has been improved, so that different terrain can now be shown in each landscape. Meadows now have more flowers, mountains are covered in rocks, and forests are full of branches. The river landscape has also been made somewhat swampier, with tall grass and dead wood.Improved biomes: All landscapes have been further refined, giving each one its own unique look. In the mountains, for example, the bushes in the background have been replaced with overgrown rocks. All landscapes now also feature more vegetation in the foreground.Ambient sounds: Depending on the landscape, you can now hear ambient sounds. Rivers babble, birds chirp, stones crunch in the mou…
- 🤗 Update 1.3.0 - Motion Sickness & Accessibility - 6 November 2025
Hey everyone! 🙋♂️Horse Runner DX is generally a relaxed game, but it can get quite fast-paced. Some players who are sensitive to motion experienced motion sickness. With this update, I've reworked the camera and added new settings so that everyone can now enjoy the game!Here are the improvements coming with Update 1.3.0:Motion Sickness ImprovementsImproved camera: The camera has been redesigned to reduce vertical movement. Additionally, visibility on steep slopes has been improved. Cleaned up graphics settings: The "Reduce motion" option in the settings menu has been replaced with a "Screen shake" setting. This makes it clearer what this setting does.Motion sickness adjustments: In the graphics settings, you can now disable the parallax effect of the background. This makes the background static and greatly reduces overall movement. This setting helps motion-sensitive players avoid mot…
- 🏆 Update 1.2.0 - Achievements are here! - 29 July 2025
Hey everyone! 🙋♂️Many people have been asking for achievements - and they're finally here! As a big fan of achievements and trophies, I've put a lot of effort into coming up with some interesting challenges. Hope you enjoy :-)Here are the new features in Update 1.2.0:AchievementsFull set of achievements: A total of 50 achievements have been added, designed for new and experienced players alike.Translations for 8 languages: I've tried to translate all the references and jokes into other languages. If you think another translation is more appropriate, please let me know.Achievement FAQs: There's a new thread in the discussions with additional information. You can also ask questions about achievements there.ImprovementsImproved herd behavior: Following horses no longer fall behind when swapping positions at top speed.Improved horse selection: Newly unlocked starting horses are now automa…
- 🤗 Update 1.1.4 - Improvements & Fixes - 27 June 2025
Hey everyone! 🙋♂️First, thanks to all new and existing players for playing Horse Runner DX. It's really amazing to see the high scores some people have achieved! :-) This update includes some quality of life improvements and fine-tuning.Improvements & FixesAdjusted horse prices: The horse prices (beginning of each level) have been adjusted so that the various power-ups are valued slightly differently in higher levels.Adjusted sound effects: Many sound effects have now been given some variation so that the same sound effect always sounds slightly different.Added biome coloring: The different biomes (meadows, forest, rivers, mountains, uphill, downhill) now have different color schemes. For example, the meadows have a warm, summery color, while the mountain landscape has a slightly cooler color.Added foreground landscape: To give the landscape more visual depth, vegetation has been adde…
- 🤗 Update 1.1.2 - Improvements & Cuteness - 14 May 2025
Hey everyone! 🙋♂️ This quality of life update brings a number of minor improvements and graphical enhancements to make the game better - and cuter :-) Improvements & Fixes Improved graphics settings: The retro filter and the bloom effect can now be adjusted separately if you prefer less bloom and more sharpness. The settings are 0 = off, 1 = low, 2 = high. Improved high refresh rate support: The game is generally limited to 60 FPS. If you have a monitor with a high refresh rate (e.g., 240 Hz), you can unlock the FPS in the graphics settings. This will run the game at 240 FPS, for example. Added little birds: To make everything even cuter, there are now little birds everywhere, sitting along the path or in trees, happily pecking around. Added falling leaves: In areas with many trees, there are now falling leaves floating to the ground. This makes the landscape look more vibrant and nat…
- 🥳 Update 1.1.0 - Online Leaderboard - 17 April 2025
Hey everyone! 🙋♂️ This update finally brings an online leaderboard where you can compete with players from all over the world! In addition, there were also some small improvements and optimizations. Online Leaderboard Compete online: Every new high score is added to the online leaderboard. There you can compare yourself directly with other players and gradually climb the ranks. Local leaderboard: In addition to the online leaderboard, the local leaderboard remains as a fallback. As before, a high score for each horse will be saved there. Offline support: The online leaderboard requires you to be online and logged in to Steam. If you're offline on Steam, only the local leaderboard will be available. If you haven't played the game (or the demo) in a while, you can get a quick overview of the latest improvements here. I've tried to incorporate all the feedback over the past few weeks. Pr…
- 😎 Update 1.0.7 - Balancing & Polishing - 10 April 2025
Hey everyone! 🙋♂️ This update brings improved balancing, a bit more polish and new music tracks. Update 1.0.7 contains the following improvements: Improved balancing & progression: The prices of the horses (in the levels) and some challenge tasks have been adjusted so that the progression in the game feels better. As a result, the difficulty and progression are now more balanced - not too difficult, but not too easy either. New background music: Some melodies in the game are incorrectly recognized by YouTube as other licensed music. To be on the safe side on YouTube and when streaming, the music in question has been replaced. The new tracks have been checked on YouTube and can be used without any problems. Improved retro filter: If you have a heart for retro games, you can now choose from three settings for the retro filter: 0=off, 1=low, 2=high. The highest level is particularly suit…
- 🤠 Update 1.0.6 - Precision Improvements - 26 March 2025
Hey everyone! 🙋♂️ As always, I've carefully reviewed all the comments and requests on Steam and YouTube. Therefore, this update addresses virtually all requests regarding jumping accuracy and losing horses. Update 1.0.6 contains the following improvements: Precision Improvements Increased precision when jumping: In higher levels, it could happen that the following horses would jump off with a 1-2 pixel difference compared to the lead horse. This difference has now been reduced to 0 so that all horses jump off at exactly the same location. Improved ground contact: When going downhill quickly, horses sometimes slip and fall, briefly losing contact with the ground. To make jumping easier in such hectic situations, ground contact has been improved. Now, contact is only briefly lost on steeper edges. Improved jumping off slopes: At very high speeds, when the herd is falling more than runni…
- 🤗 Update 1.0.5 - Improvements and Fixes - 13 March 2025
Hey everyone! 🙋♂️ This update implements many smaller but equally important points that I've collected as feedback. As always, thank you for your feedback and all the suggestions! Update 1.0.5 contains the following improvements and fixes: Gameplay Improvements Acceleration in the bonus area: After each level, your horses slow down to give you a chance to catch your breath. When you jump in the bonus area, your horses now regain speed more quickly. Improved level end: Previously, the horses would slow down before reaching the flag at the end of the level to slow down in the bonus area. The end has now been improved so that the horses pass the flag at full speed and only slow down afterward. Fixed speed in higher levels: If you had a lot of horses with the "Slower" power-up, the speed was much too slow in higher levels (15, 20, etc.). The effect of the power-up has now been slightly re…
- 🥰 Release & Update 1.0.4 - 6 March 2025
Hey everyone! 🙋♂️ The time has finally come - the release of Horse Runner DX is here! 🐴 I am very excited to release the game and would like to thank you for all the lovely feedback and the many good suggestions. Version 1.0.4 contains the following improvements and fixes: Improved chance of survival: One much-requested feature was that the whole herd is not lost in the event of a mass crash. Previously, you lost all the horses if you jumped right into an obstacle and the horses could no longer avoid it. This has now been mitigated so that only the first horse is lost and the rest of the herd survives. Compatibility with demo: If you have already played the demo, your progress will be carried over automatically. But if you want to start again from scratch (which I recommend), you can reset your progress individually under Settings\Data. You can, for example, keep the leaderboard and…
- 🥳 Next Fest Update 1.0.0 - An entire herd of improvements - 23 February 2025
Hey everyone! 🙋♂️ Since the last update, development of Horse Runner DX has progressed at a galloping pace. 🐎 As always, the demo will be kept up to date and will continue to receive regular updates with your suggestions for improvement. Thank you for all the lovely feedback and suggestions 🤗 Update 1.0.0 includes the following improvements: New Features Unlockable starting horses: From the title screen you can now access the list of unlockable horses. By completing challenges you can unlock more and more horses to start the game with. Leaderboard: From now on, your high scores will be saved and displayed in a local leaderboard. Each horse that finishes a run will receive its own entry with its name. You can reset all entries under Settings\Data. Tutorial hints: When you play through the game for the first time, you will be shown tutorial hints that explain the game. You can reset t…
- 😎 Demo Update 0.8.6 - Graphic Improvements & Fixes - 13 February 2025
Hey everyone! 🙋♂️ Once again, thank you very much to everyone who played the demo version! 🥰 After the last update added new horses and new music, this update makes everything a little prettier and more polished. The demo update 0.8.6 includes the following improvements: Improvements Tree and bush shadows: All trees and bushes in the landscape now cast a shadow. This gives the landscape more depth and contrast - and simply looks more beautiful! Improved background graphics: The background graphics have been improved to ensure that the colors and lighting are more consistent overall. Added new sound effects: When you land on a bale of straw, a rock, a tree trunk or a bridge, there are now additional sound effects. For example, the straw rustles when you land on a bale of straw. Cheaper first horses: If you didn't collect enough apples on your very first run, you couldn't buy horses af…
- 🤗 Demo Update 0.8.4 - New Audio, Horses & Fixes - 28 January 2025
Hey everyone! Many thanks to all the nice people who tried out the demo! 💖 The demo is constantly being developed and updated every few weeks. So it's worth checking back every now and then :-) The demo update 0.8.3 includes the following improvements: Content Improvements New coat colors: There are 4 new coat colors, making 10 different horses in the game. The new colors are Buckskin, light Dapple Grey, dark Dapple Grey and Snowflake Appaloosa (the spotted ones are my favorite). New and updated sound effects: All sound effects in the game and the UI have been revised and/or replaced with new ones. The horses now snort and neigh depending on the situation. New background music: The game now contains more and new music tracks. Problems with YouTube's Content ID (despite valid licensing) should now be resolved and no longer be incorrectly detected. More exciting landscape: The landscape…
- Horse Runner DX is a wholesome endless-runner where you play as a herd of different horses - 8 January 2025
Taking elements from the likes of Alto's Adventure, BIT.TRIP RUNNER, Dino Run, Canabalt and others we have a new wholesome looking endless-runner with a twist in Horse Runner DX. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/horse-runner-dx-is-a-wholesome-endless-runner-where-you-play-as-a-herd-of-different-horses
- Horse Runner DX is a wholesome endless-runner where you play as a herd of different horses - 8 January 2025
Taking elements from the likes of Alto's Adventure, BIT.TRIP RUNNER, Dino Run, Canabalt and others we have a new wholesome looking endless-runner with a twist in Horse Runner DX. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/horse-runner-dx-is-a-wholesome-endless-runner-where-you-play-as-a-herd-of-different-horses/
- 🥳 Demo Update 0.8.2 - Improvements and Bug Fixes - 7 January 2025
Hey everyone! First off, a big thank you to everyone who played the Horse Runner DX demo, shared your thoughts, and posted gameplay videos on YouTube. Your feedback has been incredibly helpful! With Demo Update 0.8.2, there are several improvements based on your suggestions and bug reports: Gameplay Improvements Acceleration at the end of the level: If you don't want to read the bonus information and challenges at the end of the level, you can now jump to accelerate immediately. Improved biome variety: Biomes are now alternated more evenly so that each landscape appears with a similar frequency. This means that challenges to reach a certain landscape are now much fairer. Adjustment of night brightness: Since the night was a bit too dark for some, the brightness was increased slightly for accessibility. Improved controls during gameplay: The pause menu can now be opened and closed with t…
