His body is a bulbous and spindle-edged dollop of mashed potato stuffed into a creased vest and trousers.

You have to fight down the instinctive desire to set him and the game on fire.

And yet, this creature is your host and employer.

A close-up of an uncanny virtual human face in black and white

You must sleep in the same building as him.

And you must tend to his livestock.

The other occupants of the farm are hacked from the same vein of digital ghoulishness.

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The titular horses, meanwhile, are the soiled and suffering love children ofGarry’s ModandPathologic.

They’re naked people with horse heads and pixelated gonads.

It’s safe to say that Horses doesn’t have much in common withStardew Valley.

A group of naked people with horse heads sitting in a church, depicted in black and white