History VideoGame / ThemsFightinHerds

View the first gameplay trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhAD7ZNmDsM here,]] and the 1.0 Launch trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEBOSUOLTXM here.]]

The official forum can be accessed [[http://forums.themsfightinherds.com/index.php here.]]

The Indiegogo campaign (that has been funded!) can be viewed [[https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/them-s-fightin-herds#/story here.]]

Has a [[Characters/ThemsFightinHerds character page]] and a [[Recap/ThemsFightinHerds recap page]] in need of work as more updates are added into the game.

* SameRaceMeansRelated: Before story mode, the only other ungulate in-game for a while was a reindeer NPC named Cashmere, who co-ran the Pixel Lobby's store. It was revealed some time later by the devs (and mentioned in-game) that Cashmere is the cousin to Velvet, the only playable reindeer of the main characters.

* {{Retraux}}: The Visual Lobby is styled like a [[MediaNotes/The16bitEraOfConsoleVideoGames 16-Bit Era]] {{RPG}} and it uses {{Chiptune}} music. Story mode is designed and plays like a 16-bit RPG outside of the fighting sequences.

* PirateGirl: Shanty. Or at most she's ''trying'' to be one.

* OnlyOneName: Most of the characters don't have last names, or even a SpeciesSurname; It's not "Pom Lamb" or "Pom the Sheep", just Pom. Averted with Stronghoof Hoofstrong, making Velvet's "full name" ''Velvet Hoofstrong''.

* MinimalistCast: So far, there's only six default playable fighters, with a seventh as DLC. Though there are plenty of other [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]] in Fœnum, the list of supporting characters with names is relatively small.

* MonsterAndTheMaiden: [[BlackMagicianGirl Oleander]] entered a pact with a demon known as FHTNG (or [[EmbarrassingNickname Fred]]) to protect her home from the predator invasion. Fred is currently locked in a tome Oleander carries with her (and uses as an ImprovisedWeapon), but he can reach out from it to swipe his claws, or give some of his powers to Oleander. His plans regarding Oleander [[AmbiguouslyEvil aren't fully clear]], but for the time being he's fine with working with her.

* MindlessSheep: Sheep are {{Extreme Doormat}}s. Pom got volunteered because she was the only sheep brave enough to ''have an opinion''.

* ImprobablyFemaleCast: Of all the ungulates in Fœnum the chosen Key Seekers (and by extension playable characters) just so happen, by coincidence, to all be female. Even with the DLC reveal of the very male Texas, the playable cast still has the females outnumber the males heavily despite the number of shown males with distinct characters.

** Oleander, the unicorn, uses a book, and has projectile, trap and teleport attacks like Twilight Sparkle. Where Twilight Sparkle learned the values of friendship, Oleander shuns companionship, and is in a possibly dangerous allyship with an EldritchAbomination named Fred.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Both Oleander and the rest of her clan are right, and naïve, in their own ways. Oleander is right in both just because [[DarkIsnotEvil some things are dark doesn't mean they have to be bad]] as well bringing up at least one of them should take action when the world is in danger, rather than blindly trusting "The Magic of Light" to decide the world's fate. However, it's also true how foolish it is for Oleander to be dwindling in powerful magic that she nor anyone else knows anything about, and being that she ''was'' cursed (if only a change in coat color) the other unicorns' paranoia towards it is understandable. This is especially true since Fred is shown not to be trustworthy, with him failing to tell Oleander about her cursed fur being just the beginning.

** In Oleander's (now non-canon) chapter in the Book of Lore, the other unicorns all gasp in surprise when they find out she has been dwindling into dark magic. [[RunningGag They continue to gasp at everything else she says in her defense]].

''Them's Fightin' Herds'' was originally a fan-made ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' game titled ''[[VideoGame/MyLittlePonyFightingIsMagic Fighting is Magic]]''. Lauren [[ApprovalOfGod enjoyed playing the game]], but Creator/{{Hasbro}} [[ScrewedByTheLawyers issued a cease-and-desist order]] against [=Mane6=],[[note]]Hasbro usually turns a blind eye to fan-projects, but ''Fighting is Magic'' became so popular, to the point it was being shown off at [[UsefulNotes/FightingGameCommunity EVO]], that it was hard to ignore at that point. Also, Hasbro likely didn't feel it was worth using loopholes to cheat around this aspect of trademark law.[[/note]] forcing [=Mane6=] to abandon the project. Despite this huge setback, however, the [=Mane6=] team decided to keep going on with their idea by creating a similar game set in an entirely new, non-copyright-infringing universe. Creator/LaurenFaust then decided to offer her help in designing new characters for that game.

* DescriptivelyNamedSpecies: Sometimes the ungulates are called something a little more unique than just their species. We have "Cattlekind" for bovines, "Sheeple" for the sheep, and "Deerfolk" for the deer/reindeer.

* CreditsMedley: The credits music contains a medley of every character's stage theme.

The game released in Early Access for Windows [=PCs=] (mostly complete apart from the Story Mode) on February 22nd 2018. The game received a proper release on April 30, 2020. While it only had the first part of the Story Mode, the rest is planned to come out as free DLC. It was released on consoles (UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS, UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch) on October 18, 2022.

* {{Retraux}}: The Visual Lobby is styled like a [[UsefulNotes/The16bitEraOfConsoleVideoGames 16-Bit Era]] {{RPG}} and it uses {{Chiptune}} music. Story mode is designed and plays like a 16-bit RPG outside of the fighting sequences.