Horsey Game NPCs & Quests — Old Bu, Bubba, Sweetie, the Alien

Horsey Game lost horse: known description and missing-horse report

Steam describes the achievement as “Lost Horse — Return a lost horse.” Cheru reads the request as “Strange Bedfellow. Brown body, black everything else” at 46:00 in Cheru’s playthrough. No fixed spawn point, owner coordinates or complete delivery sequence is confirmed by these sources.

At 44:20, Cheru reports being unable to return it because it was nowhere in the world. The cause is unknown; returning a matching horse promptly is a precaution, not a verified softlock fix. Only 2.5% had unlocked “Lost Horse” in the Steam snapshot. See the 26-achievement table for all unlock rates.

Steam data fetched 2026-11-08 · Official Steam achievements · Steam unlock-rate API

Horsey Game map: landmarks named in official notes and sources

No coordinate map is confirmed here. These named landmarks are navigation references from official notes, not a complete map.

Steam data fetched 2026-11-08 · Official Steam news API

🔬 Sourcing. Every NPC interaction below is anchored to a Bilibili or YouTube playthrough timestamp. NPCs and quests are systems most guides skip — they're real, they pay well, and they have specific phenotype/lineage requirements.

Horsey Game's economy is partly a betting game and partly a quest fulfillment game. The quest side is heavily NPC-gated. Below are the NPC quests shown in the cited recordings.

Horsey Game $2,000 ear-and-lineage quests in two recordings

Two recordings show a farmer paying $2,000 for a bred horse with special ears. The requirements overlap (bloodline from the farmer's horses, a race result, matching ears), but the clips use different names and wording. Whether these are one quest or separate NPCs is unconfirmed.

Old Bu (老番茄's Bilibili recording)

Location evidence: The cited dialogue identifies the quest, but does not establish coordinates. Use the landmark table above only for places the sources actually name.

Setup (老番茄 @ 7:58, translated from Chinese):

"These horses are no use at all… if you can use them to breed a horse that wins as a champion racer, I'll give you two thousand dollars — but it must win a championship once, and it must have rabbit ears like my horses."

Payout (老番茄 @ 11:21, translated from Chinese):

"Because the dog's grandfather was a rabbit from his farm and also had rabbit ears, Old Bu paid us the two thousand dollars as promised."

Requirements stated in this recording:

• Bred from Old Bu's own horses (the paid horse's grandfather came from his farm)
• Rabbit ears like his horses
• At least one championship win

The DNA Database has a rabbit preset for experiments; an F1 cross is not confirmed to produce the required ears in-game.

Conditional arithmetic (our calculation): $2,500 Champion prize + $2,000 quest reward − $250 Champion entry = $4,250 after that entry only (prize and fee per the betting odds guide). This excludes earlier entries, breeding, purchases and losses; it is not an expected-profit estimate.

Bubba (Cheru's YouTube recording and a CaseOh translation)

Setup (Cheru @ 28:00):

"If you bring me a horse that descends from either Russian mafia, coronal mass ejection, or [a third lineage]. And it must have big ears."

Payout (Cheru @ 28:40):

"I've just made myself $2,000."

A second recording (少年怀特Weiss CaseOh translation @ 15:34, English audio) adds a race condition: "you'll give me two thousand dollars — the horse must win a race at the track and it must have big ears exactly like these ones."

Requirements stated across these two clips:

• Descended from named horses (the third lineage name is not clearly audible)
• Big ears like the NPC's horses
• A race win at the track (stated in the second clip; not shown being checked in Cheru's)

Whether these describe the same NPC, and whether one horse can satisfy both, is unconfirmed.

Sweetie — trophy sale for 300 in one recording

Setup: Cheru @ 15:35:

"Sweetie sold our trophies? Oh my gosh, for 300?"

What the recording shows: Sweetie is the campaign's horse-flu patient. In Cheru's run she sold the player's trophies, and the reaction names 300 as the amount. The clip does not show whether that is per trophy or in total, or what triggers the sale.

Practical note: the sale happened without a visible player action in that recording, so its trigger is not established. Trophies are also accepted by the trophy-buying NPC in the hidden secrets guide; its rewards are not quantified there.

The Alien — $3 certification license

Setup: 老番茄 @ 8:14:

"The certification license costs 3 dollars from the alien guy." (paraphrased from Chinese)

Mechanic: A non-human NPC sells some kind of certification license for $3. The exact unlock the license enables is not visible in the recording.

$3 is trivial. Buy it on first encounter; if it gates progression you'll have skipped a friction point cheap.

"Lady" — $2,000 sale offer for a specific horse

Setup: 逍遥散人 @ 38:21:

"A character offers 2000 dollars for a horse named 'lady'." (paraphrased from Chinese)

Mechanic: Some unnamed NPC will pay $2,000 for a horse specifically named "Lady" (the lady in question may have specific phenotype requirements not visible in the clip). This is not confirmed to be the Steam Lost Horse achievement.

Caveat: Renaming an arbitrary horse to “Lady” is not a confirmed solution. The full requirements are unknown.

Bankrupt-state NPC — $50 poop job

Setup: 老番茄 @ 6:54:

"When bankrupt, a job picking up horse manure gives 50 dollars immediately." (paraphrased from Chinese)

Mechanic: If your bankroll hits zero, an NPC offers a $50 immediate cash poop job — a soft floor against full bankruptcy. Cheru also records a $50 poop-scooping payout; whether the bankrupt offer is a separate emergency unlock is not established.

NPC interactions that are not yet quests

Documented but unclear payout / mechanic:

• The pink horse farm (老番茄 @ 7:27) — players can spend money to buy racehorses directly. Functions as a horse market, not a quest giver.
• The tavern — beers $10 each, "no reward by itself" (老番茄 @ 10:59). Beers are used in the community-reported opening route, but the tavern itself doesn't pay you.
• Drunk farm owners (老番茄 @ 18:48) — "If the farm owner is drunk, you cannot trade." Implies a sober-vs-drunk state on NPCs that affects quest availability.
• Convert-owner-to-horse (老番茄 @ 18:58) — "Dragging a horse onto a farm owner makes the horse become the new farm owner." The opening route relies on this community-reported swap.

Horsey Game NPC and quest claims this guide can't confirm

We don't yet have video evidence for:

• The full list of NPCs in the game
• The exact map coordinates / regions for each NPC
• The full payout table for the trophy-buying NPC
• Whether quest payouts are one-time or repeatable per save
• Whether Old Bu and Bubba's quests can both fire on the same horse

If you've identified additional NPCs or completed any of these, please submit via /contact.

More Horsey Game NPC and quest guides

• Horsey Game Betting & Odds — Champion Race that gates Old Bu's quest
• Hidden Secrets — cave bones, water rope, top-left DNA bottle, Old Bu's farm note
• Horsey Game Economy — full payout ladder including these quests
• DNA Database — splice rabbit DNA for Old Bu, big-ear lineages for Bubba

Sources

• 老番茄 — "这是什么马？？" (Bilibili). https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1BM9fB8Eds (Old Bu, Alien, drunk-owners, convert-owner mechanics)
• Cheru — "I 100% Solved Horse Racing — CRISPR" (YouTube). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoiOVMPzUWM (Bubba, Sweetie, Strange Bedfellow)
• 逍遥散人 — "爆笑赛马 养马仙人成长之路" (Bilibili). https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1CNduBKEfc (Lady horse offer)

Editorial update: 2026-11-08. Community observations retain their cited source timestamps; their game builds are not confirmed. Official notes, where linked, are a separate dated source.