Unfortunately, G1 Stable is a Japanese-only game which is just too complicated for me to understand how it fully works. It’s a management simulation game where you’re put in charge of a stable looking after G1 horses. Group 1 is a prestigious series of Japanese horse races, so you have to make sure all the horses are fit and ready for the big races.

Managing money doesn’t seem to be a part of G1 Stable. Instead, horse owners will get you to look after their horses while also inviting you to buying events and auctions to buy a new horse on their behalf, although they never seemed to give me enough money to buy a horse. Presumably, the amount of money will increase as your reputation goes up.

However, despite trying all the menu options, trying to work out based on Google translate, looking at the only (and very basic) translation guide, there was one thing in particular I could not figure out how to do: enter a horse into a race. Nobody seemed to mind so much, although my assistant manager found it odd that none of the horses had won a race in our first year.

It all seems very detailed, with lots of different types of training, many different track types and different employees you may attract or lose, but the vast amount of technical stuff makes it extremely difficult to understand exactly what was going on. The visual style is quite nice, and little details like your assistant wearing different clothing throughout the year shows that a good amount of attention has gone into it.

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Remake or Remaster?

This is a very Japanese kind of game, so I can’t really say. It did get a sequel on PlayStation 2.

Official Ways to get the game

There’s no official way to play G1 Stable