If you're unfamiliar with horses, imagine a big, skittish dog with short hair and really long legs. Now imagine horse girls. They're like horses, but they're girls – girls with little horse ears and tails. Finally, picture horse girl racing, which is like horse racing but with horse girls. Congratulations, you are now equipped with all the knowledge you need to start playing Umamusume: Pretty Derby, a massive Japanese mobile game that recently launched on Steam in English with the kind of momentum and reception that any game would kill for.
At the time of writing, Umamusume: Pretty Derby has 5,017 user reviews on Steam, with an overwhelmingly positive grade score of 95%. It came out on June 24. Even for a free-to-play port of a years-old mobile titan, those are pretty impressive numbers
