Goat Simulator
Goat Simulator is a third-person perspective game in which the player controls a goat. There does not appear to be any kind of storyline or plot. The player is free to explore the game's world as a goat…
Goat Simulator is an adventure developed by Coffee Stain Studios, released 1 April 2014 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It currently starts at $2.00 at GamersGate. The main story takes about 13.4 hrs to finish.
What Goat Simulator is
Goat Simulator is an adventure game developed by Coffee Stain Studios and released in 2014. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Goat Simulator is an action video game developed and published by Coffee Stain Studios. The game was released for Windows in April 2014, and ports for Linux and OS X were released in June 2014. Mobile versions for Android and iOS were released in September 2014. Versions for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One were released in April 2015, and for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 in August 2015; these ports were developed by Double Eleven. A Nintendo Switch version containing the game and downloadable content was released in January 2019, and a remastered version for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S was released in November 2024.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, open world and sandbox. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen. There are 127 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Goat Simulator holds a critic score of 52 out of 100. That places it above 10% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 17 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 53, across 322 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 13.4 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 21.5 hrs, roughly 1.6 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $2.00, that works out to about $0.15 per hour of the main story, or $0.09 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.0 GHz Dual Core Processor, 2 GB RAM and Shader Model 3.0, 256 MB VRAM. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $2.00 at GamersGate, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Goat Simulator launched on 1 April 2014, within three weeks of Dark Souls II, Hearthstone, Diablo III: Reaper of Souls and Titanfall. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Dark Souls II, Hearthstone, Diablo III: Reaper of Souls, Titanfall.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Goat Simulator yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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