Unpleasant Horse

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Unpleasant Horse
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Developer(s) 4th and Battery
Publisher(s) PopCap Games
Platform(s) iOS
ReleaseApril 28, 2011 [1]
Genre(s) Platform

Unpleasant Horse is a side-scrolling platform game developed by 4th and Battery for iOS, [1] a subsidiary of PopCap Games. [1] The protagonist of the game is a black "horse" (though technically a pegasus), which the user must direct across the level by having the horse bounce on clouds, and on the backs of white horses. This causes the white horses to fall onto meat grinders at the bottom of the level; if the user misdirects the black horse when trying to hit a cloud or a white horse, then the black horse itself falls onto the meat grinders. [1]

Contents

The game was believed to be rejected from the App Store for "mature content" in April 2011 due to a miscommunication, [2] but it was still undergoing review. [3] Unpleasant Horse is no longer available on the iOS App Store.

Reception

At the time of its release, the game received above-average reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [4]

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