Online horse sim games and apps can be a fun way to pass the time and perhaps learn a little about horses along the way. Many of the older sites require the Adobe Flash Player, which does not work on many newer platforms.
Ultimate Horse Simulator App
With the Ultimate Horse Simulator app from Gluten Free Games, you become a wild horse. You explore your world while starting your herd and raising baby horses. You can customize your horses. This game includes a quest system to help out villagers as well as fights to protect your equine family from predators. It is available for both iOS and Android.
Horse Sim Games at 1001webgames.com
Horse games at 1001webgames.com include show jumping, racing, and a jigsaw puzzle. Some of these games require Flash to play, while others can be played on an iPad. They are simple to play, but when you try the showjumping you may find you need a good coach.
Pony Box
Manage your stable of sim horses in the free online horse sim game Pony Box. There is no software to download. Compete in realistic and fantasy horse sports like dressage, polo, barrel racing, buffalo hunting, and cloud jumping. Also, Pony Box has active social forums and informative articles.
Horse Isle
Catch a wild horse on Horse Isle horse sim game, care for it and train it, and compete in sim shows. You can build your ranch, solve story-based quests, post poetry and drawings, buy sim tack and choose your horse’s breed. You will need Flash. The basic membership is free or you can upgrade for a monthly fee. You can play Horse Isle I or two versions on Horse Isle II, one of which has a lifecycle with breeding while in the other version the horses are immortal but don't breed.
White Oak Stables
White Oak Stables is a free online horse game designed to emphasize the realistic time, skill and money management needed to run a successful horse stable in three different disciplines; English, Western and racing, and have fun at the same time. Members breed, show, race, train and care for their horses. There are games, parties, contests, story archives, and lots of free prizes every month. While the emphasis is on fun, the creator also hopes to raise awareness about the problem of unwanted horses.
Horse-games.org
Horse-games.org has a large collection of Flash-based horse games. You can play horse games based on jumping, racing, trail riding, cross country and dress up.
A Virtual Horse
A Virtual Horse sim game claims to be one of the top online horse games. Breed your sim horses and learn about color and genetics, build your ranch, train your horses and manufacture your virtual tack. You can try the game as a guest.
My Stable
With My Stable you own, breed, train, show, and care for your virtual horses. Sell horses on the My Stable market or at auction. You can even see your horses in their stalls. Become a top trainer, breeder or catch wild horses. Earn and win Mystable money by selling and winning at shows or through the Mystable lottery.
Discontinued Horse Sim Sites
Horseland was one of the oldest horse games on the internet, but because it ran on Flash technology it was shut down in January 2019. The spin-off cartoon "Horseland" was aired on television. Equine-Ranch also is no longer reachable and appears to be discontinued.