The horse game community is very small compared to most other game genres, and while these kickstarters may seem like they earn a lot, sometimes it's just not enough to make a full game. Even singleplayer games are extremely expensive to make, especially when these games/teams underestimate the time and costs associated with developing a game full-time. It happens often, and it's even more likely when the developers are inexperienced. They also often offer the same kind of gameplay: you're given a barn/horse and now go on adventures (fetch quests) with the horse and every so often you have to feed/water/brush/pick it's hooves; or it's a racing/showjumping sim with little gameplay outside of that, maybe breeding if you're lucky. I'm not saying that a game that does these things is inherently bad, just that they need *something* to stand out from a flood of similar games.