Marley FarmMarley Farm, for parents and teachers
A horse-rescue farm. Free, in the browser. This page prints on one sheet, or can be sent on as a link: marleyfarm.app/parents
What it is
Marley Farm is a horse-rescue farm. You are Millie, and you are seventeen. Your grandfather’s yard has not changed since the nineties, and the phone keeps ringing: a horse loose on the highway shoulder in a snowstorm, no brand, no papers. Clear the brush, put up the barn and take in the ones nobody else will. Feed them, water them, wait for them to trust you, and see them through the year, from spring melt to forty below. It is free and plays in the browser, on a phone or a computer. There are no ads, no chat, and nothing asked about who is playing.
What it promises
- There are no ads and no chat. Nobody can message your child.
- It is free to play. There is nothing to buy inside the game, no subscription, and nothing a child can buy.
- The game does not ask for a name, an email or anything else about your child.
- It plays in a browser on a phone, upright or sideways, or on a computer. There is nothing to install.
What the horses have been through
Horses arrive thin, hurt or frightened, and get better with care. Their intake notes say plainly why: neglect, a barn fire, an owner who died, a racehorse sent to a feedlot, a mare bred too young and too often. Horses get sick, and the vet comes. No horse dies. The game opens just after Millie’s grandfather has died. It is said once and the story moves on.
How the farm is kept
The farm is saved in the browser and backed up to marleyfarm.app under a farm code, which does not say who it belongs to. If the browser forgets the farm, the game brings it back on the next visit. The farm code carries it to another device: Pause, then Farm code. A farm can be deleted from the same place. The privacy page says what is kept and for how long.
Questions
Write to [email protected].