To introduce the Year of the Horse: “Horses, or the 120 Neighs of Sodom”.
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Horses is an indie horror game by Italian development studio Santa Ragione which has been the subject of a lot of controversy recently following its banning by Steam. And also by the Epic Store. Which means substantially less.
Horses has you take the role of Anselmo, a young Italian man who has been sent to work on a farm for two weeks in the summer. There he meets a farmer who grows vegetables, plows fields, and imprisons sinners in horse masks before brainwashing them into becoming livestock. As is tradition.
The game was allegedly banned by Steam for its extreme, rule-breaking content. So in this video I’ll be taking a look at the game and seeing if a ban was truly the correct option. (it wasn’t)
Referenced Articles/Videos/Music
Sad Satan Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwygWMNw-i0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw3qFVbON6A
Everywhere At The End of Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJWksPWDKOc
Wired Article: https://www.wired.com/story/horses-the-most-controversial-game-of-the-year-doesnt-live-up-to-the-hype/
IGN Article: https://www.ign.com/articles/horses-review
Plus for some extra viewing, Alanah Pearce’s video regarding the ban: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-7r9pL0Hqo
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REPULSIVE – “I’ll Hide My Scars”, “Judah’s Lullaby”, “in my dreams we sat there for hours…”, “Les Vieux Habitants”
Scratches OST – “A Bump In The Night”, “The House in Dust”
Marc van der Meulen – “Ominous Compulsion”
Silent Hill 3 OST – “Never Forgive Me, Never Forget Me”
Amnesia: The Bunker OST – “Soldier Quarters”
Conscript OST – “Carrying the Flame”
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and on the first day of the year of the horse too
Always gotta love when a new vid comes especially when I’m about to go to sleep
18 naked horses out in the yard
at that point just get a different job bruh 😔
Could it also be an allegory to how humans treat actual animals?
Truly an insane interpretation. All the horses are literally humans who do human things.
@lalalalalalalalalala-js5xli don’t know if you got what I meant with my original comment, so here is a better explanation: we are so used to treating animals as lesser things, who have no thought, their feelings don’t matter and all. But when we do same thing to “horses” With human bodies, now that’s different? And i know these were ordinary folk before the capturing and brainwashing, but still
if some greek guy on hollywood made this, it would be getting oscars, but because its a video game, it gets banned.
Humans are horses
LMAO and ppl think steam is the “good” company
The year of the Horse is here.
Still worth it to play after watching this? Cuz I feel like a lot of the hardest hitting parts were spoiled here. What you guys think?
Ha, i understood the longman reference at the end
That game just gives me huge Vase de Noces vibes
I only saw one channel talking about this game but i love your take on it aswell. Well said
20:35 fear and hunger? more like shockvalue and edgelord
One thing I found horrifying about this game is that (personally) there are slight moments among the monotony of the chores where you completely forget these are humans. It lasts a second but when you read “feed horses, chop wood, feed dog” you just see those as feeding actual horses and dogs
Is this a parody or real
19:35-20:08 This is a pet peeve that I’ve learned the hard way (and still am learning), where people can’t talk about something or their opinion on something without feeling the need to address whatever elephant in the room exists (or at least feel obligated to do so). The only difference with this game compared to the examples at the top of my head is that the elephant in the room in this case is far less serious and even more unnecessary to keep constantly bringing up. It’s just “the game was banned from Steam and the Epic Games Store” and that’s all there is to it.
18:12 I’m never escaping am I
it’s so fucking tame man. if you made gabe newell watch fellini satyricon or any pasolini he’d probably burst into fucking flames
I’m almost ashamed for laughing at the “horse iceberg” bit, someone could talk to me about the most horrible things for 2 hours straight and I feel like I’d still unconsciously chuckle if you showed me a funny picture of a gorilla with a hat out of nowhere shortly after.