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Train anime horse-racing stars, shape their abilities through career runs, then watch them compete and perform onstage.
Released 24 Jun 2025
Train Horse-Girl Racers
Build Stats and Skills
Race Up to 18
Umamusume: Pretty Derby, winner of Best Mobile Game at The Game Awards 2025, is ready to race! Scout featured trainees and supporters as you navigate the immersive sports life simulation through the game's in-depth training system and top-of-the-line 3D graphics!
Developed by Cygames, Inc. · Published by Cygames, Inc.
You play as a trainer guiding Umamusume—horse-inspired runners with individual stories—as they pursue their racing goals. Build relationships with trainees while preparing them for a career on the track.
Each career run gives you a limited schedule of training and other choices to develop a trainee's stats and skills before entering races. Results and random events can change how a run unfolds.
Race results put your training to the test, with up to 18 runners competing. Trained characters can pass on traits to future trainees, and victories lead to a post-race concert.
Players who enjoy the game often point to its engaging training loop, strategic character-building, and the satisfaction of cheering on a trainee through a race. Character stories, appealing animations, concerts, and connections to real racehorse histories also come up in praise. Other reviews find the training outcomes too dependent on random events and criticize the gacha economy or the time needed for repeated runs.
-- Umamusume. They are born to run. They inherit otherworldly names, and are inspirited by dreams most dramatic and wonderful. Now, they run ever forward. That, is their destiny. No one knows how the races that lie in their futures will end. Even so, they continue to run, aiming only toward the goal in front of them.
-- Each and every one of the runners sports a unique charm. It's up to you, the trainer, to lead them down the path of victory! You have but one goal—raise your Umamusume to her fullest potential and help turn her greatest dreams into reality. In order to reach these newfound heights, it's your job to participate in—and win—as many races as possible! Triumph awaits those who train hard and work to communicate. Only by cooperating will you take the crown!
-- Experience the thrilling stories of historic racers, such as:
Special Week (Voice: Azumi Waki)
Silence Suzuka (Voice: Marika Kono)
Tokai Teio (Voice: Machico)
Oguri Cap (Voice: Tomoyo Takayanagi)
Gold Ship (Voice: Hitomi Ueda)
Vodka (Voice: Ayaka Ohashi)
Daiwa Scarlet (Voice: Chisa Kimura)
Mejiro McQueen (Voice: Saori Onishi)
Symboli Rudolf (Voice: Azusa Tadokoro)
Rice Shower (Voice: Manaka Iwami)
Haru Urara (Voice: Yukina Shuto)
Nice Nature (Voice: Kaori Maeda)
...and so many more—over 20 Umamusume are searching for a trainer to help them achieve their goals!
-- Cheer for your favorite Umamusume and immerse yourself in exhilarating races and stunning performances in breathtaking 3D graphics. Up to 18 Umamusume compete in races against each other for first place—watch them go as you tune in to the game's incredibly realistic live commentary. And of course, stick around after the race to support the victor during a dazzling winning concert! Whether on the racetrack or the stage, raise the roof to each exciting new performance!
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 20 |
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| Players | Up to 18 |
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| Multiplayer | Steam lists Single-player and Online PvP. The store text says up to 18 Umamusume compete in races, but this appears to describe race field size, not confirmed human player count. Reviews consistently describe PvP as asynchronous online competition using trained teams or horses against other players, with modes such as Team Trials, Champions Meeting, League of Heroes, Team Stadium, and Legend Races. No evidence of co-op, local multiplayer, LAN, splitscreen, or drop-in/drop-out is provided. |
| Multiplayer & mods | No mod support or multiplayer mod functionality is mentioned in the provided information. |
| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
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| Website | Official website |
