Schleich: Horse Club – Country City River Review, Test and Critique

City, Country and River. Love and hate. During a lunch break, on a long train ride, or on the lawn by the pool. Perfect for passing the time, all you need is paper, pens, nice people and creative classes. Many publishers have now realized that you can also make money using this simple game principle. In addition to countless game blocks on various topics, there are also board games and card games that revolve around the classic game principle. And while some shake their heads and prefer to return to pen and paper, others are very impressed by the imaginative inventions.

get on the horse

In 2023, Schmidt Spiele brings the classic game to the horse world, specifically to Lakeside Stud Farm. The perfect place to HORSE CLUB SUBJECT WORLD FROM SCHLEICH This setting represents City, Country and River-Edition. 2 to 4 children aged 7 and up can show their creativity by finding the right terms.

A pillow, a few pens and much more.

When I first held the game box in my hands for this review, I was amazed. city-country-river Usually, due to limited materials, the Schleich: Horse Club – City Country River game comes in a large, sturdy box. The four horse friends Sophia, Lisa, Hannah and Sarah are smiling at me from the cover. I don’t know the girls yet, but I’m curious to see what’s in the game box besides the board and pens.

A small preview actually reveals that there's also a playing field, game pieces, and a turntable – things I've never needed before, for the sake of puns. A look inside the box also reveals clear game instructions and 24 round slides.

You must be four friends

Due to the limited game materials, Schleich: Horse Club – Stadt Land Fluss can be played with a maximum of four people. Each person at the table receives one of the four horse friends as a playing character, as well as the corresponding round chips, a sheet of paper from the game board and a pen. By spinning the letter wheel, a letter is selected for each round.

Then everyone at the same time tries to fill in a line with the appropriate terms. Whether it's a horse breed, farm animals, nature, or even very open categories like friendship… or you need a ride…, as a horse lover, you'll have a much easier time with some of the categories in this version. . Whoever has filled in all the fields in the line shouts “Hüüüü” and the round is over for everyone.

point by point race

Now the points for the terms written are determined. Whether there are one, two or three points depends on what others have written. The maximum points of three are only awarded if no one else has entered a word for the general term. Once all the words have been compared and the points have been counted, all of their pawns move the corresponding number of spaces. If a horse friend passes Lakeside Horse Farm on the game board, we hand over a round chip from our supplies. The first person to hand over all the round chips wins the race.

Dream for girls horse and cowboy

If horse lovers’ hearts soar during this match, others will throw their hands up over their heads. The game is clearly aimed at a specific target group. Anyone who stumbles when asked about horse breeds, riding holidays, model horses, or who the stable is probably not the type of person this option is offered to. Unfortunately, I personally did not like the theme nor the exaggeration of the simple game concept.

Creative Horse Names and Hot Discussions

Horse names are a matter of taste and other things can be argued about. Whether a horse likes nonsense, leaves, people or sweets depends, as it does on us humans, on the horse’s personality. If points in some categories depend on the goodwill of the people sitting at the gaming table, you need a real expert when it comes to horse breeds. Horse lovers may smile wearily, my knowledge goes no further than Hanoverians, Shetland ponies or Andalusians.

Grandma will buy it.

Horse lovers and horse club fans may find a certain appeal in the game, but for everyone else it's just a lot of unnecessary game material. The world theme around the four friends is currently selling for over 20 euros.

I need in city-country-river There is no playing field with game pieces and no spinner that does what it's supposed to do but doesn't spin smoothly either. A themed game template with attractively designed pencils would have been enough for me, but if you have a real pony girl at home, you might see it differently.

At the latest, when a grandmother wants to make her granddaughter happy, Schleich: Horse Club – City Country River will end up in one or two children's rooms. Whether you actually play according to the instructions or whether the characters move to the riding stable is up to every horse lover.