Horses (video game)

Horses is a 2025 video game developed and published by the Italian game production studio Santa Ragione and filmmaker Andrea Lucco Borlera. It is a horror-adventure video game in which the player assists a young man, Anselmo, to tend to a farm owned by an unnamed farmer, who keeps enslaved humans dressed in horse masks. Gameplay is accompanied by experimental imagery, such as silent film motifs, camera shots, intertitles, and live-action footage. Borlera, an Italian designer and filmmaker, created the concept for the game and pitched it to Santa Ragione, citing surrealist cinema as an inspiration for the game's design and imagery.

In November 2025, shortly before release of the game, developer Santa Ragione disclosed that the digital distribution service Steam had made a final decision not to distribute the game on the platform, which was followed by the Epic Games Store taking similar steps. The developer stated the view that platform owners, including Valve, had not provided transparent reasons for the content ban. Horses was subsequently released on other platforms including GOG.com and itch.io. The ban prompted commentary about the role of games distribution censorship and the impact on independent games production.

Following release, Horses received mixed reviews, with critics praising the game's use of filmic techniques and unique premise, and expressing that the game did not feature sufficiently explicit content to merit removal from digital distribution platforms. Critiques of the game focused on the execution of its themes, with some describing the game as lacking choice or narrative subtlety. Despite its removal from several stores, sales of Horses were sufficient to allow Santa Ragione to repay debts taken to produce the game, although not enough for the studio to develop future titles.