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Horse Race Tests: Life is Pain
In Horse Race Tests: Life is Pain, feed into your worst impulses in this action packed high score gambling game. Gain abilities to rig races in your favor! Collect virtual figurines of your favorite horses, like Jovial Merryment...

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Features
Single-player
Steam Achievements
Family Sharing
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Languages:
Interface Full Audio Subtitles
English ✔ ✔ ✔

Coming Soon To Early Access

The developers of this game intend to release as a work in progress, developing with the feedback of players.

Note: Games in Early Access are not complete and may or may not change further. If you are not excited to play this game in its current state, then you should wait to see if the game progresses further in development. Learn more

What the developers have to say:

Why Early Access?

“We want to get more feedback on what we are making. It feels like it would be good for the community.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“Until April potentially.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“More modes, abilities, cards, and expanded content.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“It's playable from start to end. At the moment, there aren't menus to adjust things like screen resolution or things like that, but the game itself works. We basically just want to add content to the game and figure out the balance with a bunch of people.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“We would raise the price as we include more features.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“We want players to give feedback and respond to how they are playing. There is a large community around Horse Race Tests, so it would make sense to involve them in the process of the game. We want to figure out the balance with their help and go down directions that they think would be fun by adding new features, bets and abilities.”
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Planned Release Date: Mar 31, 2026

This game plans to unlock in approximately 6 weeks

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About This Game

What is Horse Race Tests?

Horse Race Tests is the viral horse racing sim video game series that ran on x dot com. Almost daily races chronicled races between abstract colorful horses. Which one would touch the carrots first? Place your bets and pray for the best.

What perchance is Life is Pain about?

Play as a fan of Horse Race Tests using an "online gambling system" to win ʊ that you spend on figures of your favorite horses! Win bets, gain abilities, rig the races in your favor, lose your sanity, and uncover the mysteries of Life is Pain.

Features

  • Race Horse in a Single Player High Score Attack Mode (the only mode)

  • Yuri...

Characters

  • Jovial Merryment

  • Comely Material Morning

  • Cyan

  • the yellow horse

  • Some others...

Themes & Benefits

  • Critique on society

  • Critique on gaming culture

  • Psychological Horror

  • LGBTQIA+

Quotes

"They don't look like horses."
"The dev though Umamusume was ripping him off. What an idiot."
"The dev actually has they/them pronouns."
"There is actually more than one developer on this project."
"I am LGBTQIA+."

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows 10 version 21H1 (build 19043) or newer
    • Processor: x86, x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support, ARM64
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Pretty much anything
    • Storage: 500 MB available space
    • Sound Card: Integrated
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