It's been a big year for horses in video games. First, there was the enormous popularity of the horse-girl game Uma Musume: Pretty Derby, and now there's the kerfuffle surrounding Horses, a horror game making its debut off-Steam after the popular storefront barred its release. Luckily for Horses, another major PC storefront has publicly avowed its support for the title.
On X, GOG.COM claimed that the storefront is "proud to give HORSES a home," sharing a link to pre-order the game ahead of its December 2 launch. GOG has long been a major home for DRM-free PC games, but the company behind the site, CD Projekt, has become even more well-known for The Witcher games and Cyberpunk 2077. Horses retails for $4.99 on GOG and the Epic Games Store.
Horses is an intentionally provocative game, depicting an unnerving setting where naked humans are ridden like horses. Steam's issue with the title came from an earlier build where a child rode on the shoulders of a naked adult woman, which understandably fell afoul of the platform's ban on "sexual content involving a minor."
Horses developer Santa Ragione has insisted that the scene was never intended to...
