Small gold goat statues are hidden in the game's world. Various in-game goals, such as achieving a certain height, completing flips, or destroying certain objects, are given to the player, but the player is not required to follow these instructions. The game features a scoring system similar to skateboarding games like Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, whereby doing tricks or other actions earns points, while chaining such tricks together in sequence helps build a multiplier that applies to the total score of the tricks done in the sequence. A number of environmental features allow the player to manipulate the goat into stunts such as bouncing off trampolines or launching the goat into the air through large fans. At any time, the player can let the goat drop into a ragdoll model, allowing the game's physics to take over, and another control makes the game run in slow-motion.

Licking objects attaches the goat's tongue to the object and lets the player drag the object around until they let go. The player is free to explore the game's world - a suburban setting - as a goat, and jump, run, bash things, and lick objects. Goat Simulator is an open-ended third-person perspective game in which the player controls a goat called Pilgor. The game's novelty comes from various glitches in the game purposely left in place, such as the distortion of the human character's neck as a result of the collision. In Goat Simulator, the player acquires points by performing acts of chaos-in this case, getting struck by a car while licking a non-player human character. The game received mixed reviews some reviewers praised the title for providing a humorous sandbox interface to experiment with, while others criticized the game's reliance on social media to popularize what was otherwise a simple and buggy product.Ī sequel, Goat Simulator 3, was released in November 2022. The game, initially developed as a joke prototype from an internal game jam and shown in an early alpha state in YouTube videos, was met with excitement and attention, prompting the studio to build the game into a releasable state while still retaining various non-breaking bugs and glitches to maintain the game's entertainment value. The game has been compared by the developer to skateboarding games, but where the player controls a goat aimed at doing as much damage as possible around an open world map, without any other larger goals. A Nintendo Switch version containing the game and downloadable content was released in January 2019. 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. Mobile versions for Android and iOS were released in September 2014. It was released for Microsoft Windows in April 2014, and ports for Linux and OS X were released in June 2014.

Goat Simulator is a third-person perspective action video game developed and published by Coffee Stain Studios.

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