You need to accumulate as many points as you can by the time you reach the end of your 16th year. No, the challenge here, as ever, is one of time.
Of course, the real game here isn’t about making your way to the top, because that is a matter of course. As long as you keep playing, your horses and jockeys will get better and better, and you will inevitably win races, attract more fans, and score more points. Similarly familiar is that you really can’t lose. Like every Kairosoft game, you’re at very little actual risk of running out of money, since the game will always find an excuse to give you a bit more cash if you dip too low, so staying solvent isn’t that difficult at all. You’ll also earn research points that can be used to unlock new buildings and skills for your horses. You need money to pay your monthly expenses and wages, to hire new jockeys, buy new horses, train your existing staff and herd, expand your facilities, and buy useful items. Though careful purchasing, training, and breeding, you’ll gain access to faster horses, win bigger races with bigger prizes, and gain greater fame and fortune. Mostly similar to Grand Prix Story ($4.99), in this game you’ll be establishing a ranch that grooms racing horses. Pocket Stables feels like a bit of a backslide in that regard, because it’s more or less a straight serving of simulation, Kairosoft-style.
Perhaps responding to criticism, recent games from this developer have been incorporating more RPG elements and slightly deeper mechanics. Pocket Stables ($5.99) is the newest release from Kairosoft, and unlike recent titles Dream House Days (Free) and Beastie Bay (Free), this one isn’t free to play, and there is no IAP at all.
That they could sell tons more copies of Game Dev Story 2 than The Sushi Spinnery ($4.99) may or may not be obvious to them, but they’re clearly marching to their own beat, and today, that beat sounds a lot like clopping hooves. Well, they perhaps didn’t make the most of their chance, but they’re still trucking away, porting their old feature phone and PC releases to iOS and (more frequently) Android. At that point in time, the future looked pretty bright for developer Kairosoft, with a future as a dominant force on the App Store seeming likely. Remember back when Game Dev Story ($4.99) released? It was such a fun game, and it seemed like everyone was playing it, even people who weren’t really into mobile gaming.
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