Small announcement here, we've got an official Youtube channel now! We will upload gameplays of featured games there from now on, mostly longplays and challenge runs of our favorite games, long or short.

Currently we only have Scoot Hard DX on the hardest difficulty with all endings and Raridoom Custom Edition on Nintendo Hard, where everything (Rarity included) dies in one hit, but more is surely to come (Looking at you, Fallout Equestria Remains).

Little ponies with BIG powers are coming to the Monster Taming Direct!

...But what even is that tho?

It's an annual indie games showcase focusing on Pokémon inspired projects where countless devs apply but only about 30 make the cut! And with tens of thousands of fresh gamer eyes on it, we're about to witness a livechat reaction to "P0niEs!?" harkening back to the 2010s MLP vs the Internet first-impressions era.

The event will be hosted by GymLeaderEd on YouTube, premiering this coming Labor Day morning, and we couldn't be more excited to share the Mares Mares Mares Mares Mania with the gaming world! Tune into the show and you should see BGP about 25 to 30 minutes in. It'll be a trailer with some big reveals and lots of fun stuff for Pony RPG enjoyers to see!

The PixelShy Series by DracoBlair was a Flash series of minigames featuring Fluttershy which were meant to culminate in a full game playing with and taking care of Fluttershy. The Flash End of Life may have had different plans for that, but archivists and Ruffle developers begged to differ, which is why in the upcoming days and weeks all of the (currently ruffle compatible) games will be rolled out to the arcade starting from tomorrow!

We got an update on Yotes games' Monster Tamer game with ponies: Battle Gem Ponies! They have an alpha out for all of their backers and more information out for the future development of the game!

Cloud_Citadel, made by a Russian developer of the same name, is a tiny little pony platforming game where you dash to the finish as quickly as possible. There’s only one screen, so it’s incredibly short, but it’s fun to see how low of a time you can get!

If you’ve got a minute or two to kill, give it a whirl. My lowest time is 3.991 seconds, I’m sure one of y’all out there can beat that!

Ergosphere, developed by SingularMJ, is an neat 3D third-person hack n' slash/platformer, in which you are following the unicorn Horizon, a self-proclaimed researcher as she explores the ruins of an ancient civilization in search of powerful ancient artifacts.

Or at least that's what she planned to do. As she moves deeper into the ruins, she meets her eventual companion Ashes, a phoenix who serves as something of a guardian of the place. Ashes explains the history of her society -- including the existence of Trials, important events meant to test the mettle of any who rose to the challenge, and what led their civilization to ruin... having fallen at the hooves of the Trial's most celebrated and capable champion.
Tempted by greed and the promise of power by a force referred to as the Shadows, under the champion's rule the land, and most of those in it, were overrun by the evil creatures created by this force. Ashes manages to seal herself, the most powerful of the artefacts, and the spreading corruption away... until the seal unexpectedly breaks just in time for Horizon to come along. As a new Trial begins, Horizon will have to hack, slash, explore and dash her way through the ruins, collect the artifacts and (hopefully once she's done getting a good look at them!) stop the spread of the corruption once and for all.

One of the more interesting aspects of this game, next to the magically-infused combo-heavy combat system, is that large parts of the ruins are procedurally generated! A good example of it in action is actually right at the beginning of the game, which has a somewhat long platforming sequence that is completely different every time. Certainly keeps things interesting after losing all your lives!

If this sounds like it'd be up your alley, check out the game's itch.io page linked above!

Hi! I dunno about you, but I think it's about time for another one of those patented, old-timey Unfashionably Late Equestria Gaming Dot Net Posts. Man, remember those? Feels like it was just... uh, the last post. And the one before that. And the one before that. Can't forget the one before that either...

...Anyway, so when Adobe Flash kicked the bucket a few years ago, the Arcade went with it. While we've tried keeping it going with Ruffle, a Flash Player emulator, a very sizeable chunk of pony games are currently incompatible with it and will continue to be for the time being.

Luckily, though, there's an excellent alternative!

BlueMaxima's Flashpoint, to paraphrase the website, is a preservation project dedicated to not just Flash games, but also content from older formats like Shockwave and a whole host of more modern ones. Thanks to the tireless efforts of the project's contributors, they boast a whopping 150,000 games preserved, all ready to be rediscovered in the comfort of one very user friendly program! I'd recommend checking out the website linked above if you're new to Flashpoint, as they can explain things a lot better than I can!

So, what does this all have to do with the Arcade? Two things: first and foremost, that 150,000 preserved games just so happens to include all but 9 of the games from our collection (check below the break for a list)! Secondly, one of the key features of Flashpoint is the ability for users to curate and distribute "playlists" of games, which allows us to provide an Equestria Gaming Arcade playlist!

Importing the playlist is super simple! From the games tab, just hit "import playlist" at the bottom of the tab and select the EQGArcade file once you have it downloaded. Then you'll be right back to playing pony games like it's still 2012! Happy horsegaming!

As of February 2024, the only games currently missing from Flashpoint are nolcip21's Pinkie Fun and Luna Fun, both of which are playable in the Arcade. If and when these finally make their way to Flashpoint, the playlist will be complete.

Somehow, this seems to have slipped under pretty much everyone's collective radars and that honestly completely baffles me. We're absolutely fixing that right this instant, though.

To say this is a bit of a surprise is absolutely an understatement! We've got ourselves a genuine port of the official, old-timey Hubworld pony game Adventure Ponies to Atari 8-bit computer line coming to us courtesy of the developer Gibstov. It's super satisfying to see these 8-bit styled games actually working on the appropriate hardware!

All the relevant information, including screenshots and a video of the port in action, can be found at the game's thread at AtariAge. We've also provided these below the break as per usual if you're not interested in poking through the thread! You can also play both the original game and Adventure Ponies 2 on the arcade if you're looking to play the original games, just a heads up!

Well look at that, we're actually posting something in a timely manner!

It looks like we've got a new RPG on the scene! My Little Pony: Harmony Eclipsed is an incredibly fun Final Fantasy-esque game that puts you in the regal horseshoes of Princess Luna (and featuring our other familiar pastel horse protagonists, of course!) on a quest to rid Equestria of a ever-growing dark magic threat, taking place sometime after the end of Season 3. While there's occasional bits of placeholder dialogue or assets as the game is still unfinished, overall there's a surprising amount of game here for something only getting more widespread public attention now, and I still have a decent chunk of game left to go through after clocking roughly two hours with it!

If this sounds like something up your alley, check out the game's thread on MLP Forums linked above for more information and future updates. We've also pasted the relevant information and the download link for this release below the break if that's more your speed!

Hey there, folks! It's your ol' pal and local maintenance man Magitronique here with yet another slew of arcade upda-

...wait, what do you mean "literally who?" I post here all the time, dude! Didn't I just put up an arcade update, like, yesterday?

...Oh. Uh, sorry about that. Wow.

Aaaaanyway, there's been some maintenance done on the arcade! Spike's Day Off and the Starlight Glimmer Simulator are back in working order after who even knows how long at this point. Additionally, we've just been able to add a few new futzi01 games we didn't already have! Canterlot Siege 2, Canterlot Siege 3: Inversion, Canterlot Siege 4, Crystal Crunch Story, Luna's Stars, and the Most Epic Pony Game Ever are now available to play!

What are you still reading this for? Go on now, go play!

I'd say "let's just skip the dumb one-liner intro and just jump straight into it" but it seems like that ship may have already sailed. Whoops!

The prerequisite dumb and unsurprisingly-unskipped one-liner intro aside: with Season 9 of our favorite colorful horse cartoon now currently underway, and Equestria Gaming itself having very celebrated its own eighth year, we figured behind the scenes that there really won't be any better of a time (like, y'know, probably ever again) than now if we wanted to get ourselves back in order and right back into the pixel pony news game for the final season. To that end, we've put together a little something we (or at least I) like to call the State of the Horse Website Anno Domini Two Thousand and Nineteen™ (or SOTHWADTTAN™ for short, if you like!) in order to discuss a few small site-related things; namely what's changed as of late, what we'd intend to or perhaps just like to change (if anything) and, most importantly, making your voice heard on what we do! If that sounds like it's up your alley, then please check it out below the break, if you'd be so kind!

Oh, uh, hey there. How's it going?

Wow, I can't believe it's only been *checks notes* seven whole months since my last post that I totally didn't disappear again after making even though I implied I wouldn't. Sorry about that!

Anyway, just like last year, there were a small slew of problems with the arcade for various reasons that have now been fixed. As a result, Hoofball, Catch the Scootaloos, Spike's Day Off, and a handful of the Pony Platforming Project games are now playable again after what is *considerably* likely to be a downright embarrassing amount of time.

That's all for now, folks! We now return to your regularly scheduled programming.

First things first, hello there, folks! It's certainly been quite a while, hasn't it? Hopefully there won't be another "quite a while" for... well, quite a while yet! But that's a spiel for a different post, I figure, let's get on to the actual news, haha.

I noticed sometime last week that a fair number of the games (10, to be precise) had actually stopped working for various reasons since the last time I gave everything a once-over, which was sometime last year. Thankfully, all but one game, Rainbow Dash's Cloud Dodging Fun from the now-defunct Penta Studios (please drop us a line if you have a copy!), was replaceable thanks to archived downloads of the games floating around the internet. In addition to replacing the broken ones, I've also had the pleasure of adding a whopping 18 new games on top of that, which brings our current game count to 129! Which is just absolutely ridiculous in the best possible way.

That all said, what are you waiting for? Go play!

tl;dr: We've fixed all of the broken games in the arcade and added some new ones!