The horse's behaviour is thereby depicted in a lifelike way in real-time. All competitions in the riding world such as dressage, show jumping and cross country are shown realistically. A gripping story really at-tracts the player to the screen and allows him to experience many differing tasks in a wide range of varied locations.

Deep Silver managed to successfully establish its own "Horse Life" brand for Nintendo DS in 2007 within a very a short space of time. The game, which was released under the company’s own games label Deep Silver, reached the 2nd or 3rd place respectively behind the competitive products that had been introduced long before in the individual markets in Europe.