They’re definitely social in real life. Mine was hanging around me while I was mucking so I kept hugging him and he finally got fed up with that and walked away. I break out the horse ball for him to nudge around and we sort of play soccer with it. And he does like to go out for rides. We’ve been muddling along, just the two of us since I lost my mare in December, but I haven’t found him a permanent companion yet. He had a pony buddy for a while, but the lil squirt was a bit pushy towards the end and I think that annoyed my gelding.
Kind of tempted to try a goat, but don’t want to bring in any animals as long as VSV is going around.
His sim-horse self is pretty independent and free spirited so he doesn’t really seem to be very needy. Of course he has my previous horses as companions though.