New immersive medieval sim launches on Steam with launch discount in tow

At this point, Steam has a simulator for pretty much everything — supermarkets, 3D printers, and now, dealing horses. Medieval Horse Dealer Simulator arrived on Steam on 17 August 2026. It has been developed and self-published by One Slice of Pizza Games. The title costs $17.99, with a 10% introductory discount bringing it to $16.19 until 31 August. Additionally, a bundle pairing it with the studio's earlier Arctic Motel Simulator is available for $30.76 — if you're into motels, that is.

You as a player is cast as a deposed baron. You have been betrayed by a vassal who seized the family title, so you flee overseas with a handful of coins and buy a rundown stable. Your aim is to rebuild a fortune with the eventual goal of returning to confront the usurper. That's pretty much the premise.

However, getting there involves much more than just horse trading. Medieval Horse Dealer Simulator's Steam listing has nine systems in there: farming and feed recipe invention, daily horse care, training, and multi-generational breeding where foals inherit traits from established bloodlines. Aside from the stable itself, players can mine ore and run a blacksmith shop, prepare merchant caravans and hire traders to open routes between towns. You can also raise livestock for milk and eggs, brew beer and make cheese, and recruit villagers into a mercenary force that takes contracts from local rulers. There's a fair amount of depth here.

Since the game is brand new, early numbers are as modest as it gets. They are still healthy for a self-published sim. All 21 user reviews so far are positive, though Steam has not yet generated a score from that small sample size. The game is drawing roughly 240 concurrent players against an all-time peak of 319 as of writing. If it helps, Medieval Horse Dealer Simulator had about 4,700 wishlists going into launch.

Hardware-wise, you'd have a good experience with Windows 10, a Core i3, 8 GB of RAM and a GTX 960 with 4 GB of VRAM, with 16 GB of storage. Recommended moves to a Core i5, 16 GB of RAM and a GTX 1070.

There's a minor caveat; the release is Windows-only. That aside, it includes 84 achievements and covers 19 languages. Plus, no controller support is listed. Read more about the game here.