United States“Starters Orders is an extremely in-depth horse racing management and deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Football Manager“. Pocket-Lint.com.
The No.1. Horse Racing Management game comes to the Mac!. Own and train your own string of race horses and aim for all the big races at over 100 world-wide racecourses. Open-ended, never ending game-play.
Pay once play forever! No subscriptions, in-app purchases or internet required to play.
New fantastic 3D engine and first person jockey mode.
Train, own, breed, bet, ride and race with the most realistic horse racing game!
Legendary horses. Race against legends from the past.
Vast horse racing game world with thousands of horses and realistic race commentary.
Fields of up to 40 runners with the most realistic races ever in a computer game!
The only game ever to accurately simulate UK jumps racing with a full realistic calendar including the Aintree Grand National and Cheltenham Gold Cup and hundreds more!
Hundreds of world-wide premier races such as the Melbourne Cup, the Breeders Cup, the Cheltenham Gold Cup and the Irish and Aintree Grand National.
Easy to play alone, with friends or others in the on-line league.
Dynamic never ending horse racing game world. Play season after season. Build up your breeding barn and breed new horses!
Optional AI owners mode. Train and communicate with realistic owners!
Stewards enquiries, non-triers, fines, photo finishes, accurate handicapping etc. etc.Ambitious but buggy
I have a MacBook Pro which should be plenty for this. I have been playing the American tracks. The Good: If you know something about handicapping and have always wanted to be an owner and/or trainer, this game is the best. But if you don’t know horse racing the learning curve may be tough. Outstanding concept though for the ones that know. The bad: The PC version is on Steam. If you have ever dealt with Steam you know that things will not work right. As far as the Apple app version, I’m afraid that may be the case too. Starting from the map locations with courses and stables all screwed up to a couple misspellings in the game. With some work and searching the forum I managed to write over a data file and get the tracks put in the right place. Took most of the night. And after that it was a grand game. Until one spot after hours of playing when I tried to play back a race on a horse I was thinking of buying. Poof! Back to the desktop with all progress lost. It appears the writers have given up on this game. At least the Mac version they have. Last update on this app store was June 2016. And the email link on their website they says the link doesn’t work. And when I did try to email them directly, their email address is no longer there. And the forum is a real headscratcher. They don’t appear to be supporting this game anymore. It’s a real shame. This game could have taken over my life. Instead I kind of feel I am out $35. I will try again, only saving and restoring a lot. But I can’t help but feel they could have had a real winner here and just maybe it was all too much to correct. Edit: I have played it quite a bit and have upped it to 4 stars. Outside of the map corrections and saving it every so often ( sometimes when I run a past race on a horse it bombs) it really is a great game. Love the simulation so far. Would be nice if they took care of a couple small things.
United StatesLove It!
I’m in love with this game! I used to play a lot of horse racing games on my PS2, aka the gallop racer series and then a few games on my PC, namely Horse Racing Manager 2. I kinda gave up on gaming when I got my macbook air as I didn’t think it really could handle much in the way of gaming. Well I found Starters Orders 6 and downloaded the Mac Demo. Low and behold it worked and worked well. I decided to purchase the full game on the mac app store and the game is simply flawless. It runs well and the graphics look great even though my computer is no where near a gaming machine. I do love that I can game anywhere and have been addicted to this game since I bought it. I am just starting to get the hang of jockey mode but haven’t one using it yet. I tend to watch the races and use the jockey orders and shout out cards and have better luck winning that way. I hope this game will continue to be updated and kept current. I know there are fewer Mac gamers than PC, but we are here and grateful for those that put out their games for both platforms. Keep up the good work. Oh only thing I did notice though was that the US tracks were not in the right spots on the map. I quick edit of the cooridinates on the course file fixed it, but that might be a good update as well. Thanks for the great game!
United StatesFun Game - When It Works
Constantly freezing when trying to start a new game. If you can get pass that screen, it’s an amazing game. First night installing it I was up until 4am playing.
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