Goat Simulator
Released On:
Apr 1, 2014
Metascore
Mixed or Average
62
User score
Mixed or Average
6.6
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
62
28% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
59% Mixed
23 Reviews
23 Reviews
13% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Jun 7, 2014
100
It's more than stupid, it's so moronic it becomes something almost sublime. [Issue#249, p.66]
Apr 1, 2014
80
Goat Simulator isn’t much of a game, but it’s a hell of a good time. The small but dense map is packed with tons of jokes and bugs that should be seen rather than talked about, and there’s at least a few hours’ worth of entertainment in goofing around with the jetpack alone.
User score
Mixed or Average
6.6
49% Positive
564 Ratings
564 Ratings
27% Mixed
305 Ratings
305 Ratings
24% Negative
274 Ratings
274 Ratings
Aug 4, 2026
10
Goofy, fun, and it has goats. You cannot really ask for anything more, can you?
Apr 9, 2014
70
In the future, the community could mod this to be a truly outstanding experience. And I sincerely hope the developers pitch in some new things as well. So, is it a game for everyone? Absolutely not. But if you're looking for something that's really, really out there, you'll enjoy this quite a bit, if only for a while.
Apr 14, 2014
60
It might have started off as a joke, but the funny thing about Goat Simulator is that it’s a much better game than it has any right to be.
Apr 1, 2014
60
More like an elaborate joke than a real game, if you decide to play along with Goat Simulator, you will have a good time. However, it's not much than a fancy tech demo. In the end, Goat Simulator is funny because of the absurdity of the concept rather than because of the game mechanics.
Apr 1, 2014
50
It’s not a particularly baaaad game, and it achieves what it sets out to do, but there’s not enough content there, nor hilarity outside of its initial gag, to keep you playing for more than an hour or so. It’s fun while it lasts, but it doesn’t last for long.
Apr 2, 2014
20
This is a 10-minute laugh, if that – the kind of thing that's here today, gone tomorrow, but for a brief moment in history is the talk of Shoreditch and Twitter. It's the gaming equivalent of a novelty single and even the developers, to give credit where it's due, recommend you don't buy it. Listen to them.
Nov 7, 2024
10
This is a beautiful game, a true art form of modern game design in a great era for gaming.
Apr 10, 2025
7
This game is the goat. I love how open the game is and how chaotic it is. The movement is hilarious as well
Oct 5, 2017
4
Fun for a bit, but gets old super quickly ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
May 29, 2017
4
An example **** that took Youtube by storm on the back of its own absurdity, Goat Simulator is an interesting look on what passes for entertainment. It becomes a shame then that all this $20 title devolves into is the same enjoyment you would get from listening to fart jokes all day long. Goat Simulator's premise is simple. You play as a goat dropped into an area littered with rag doll humans and objects and there's literally no objective. It becomes up to you to cause mayhem, which racks up a total score and multiplier. The fun to be had here is in how stupid you could things play out. Whether you're riding a rollercoaster with a DeadMau5 helmet or blasting people away with a dragon shout whilst body boarding across the map, the game won't fool anybody that it's a simulator, and nobody's unironically pretending it to be. That ultimately becomes the crutch and only point of the game, to pass off some laughs for a good hour at the silliness of it all, preferably with friends. Once that initial hour wore off for me, laughs diminished into uninterested smirks and eye rolling boredom. There's nothing else to the game save for a few modifiers, although I expect the modding scene to spice it up slightly more, but with the same results. Make no mistake, it's an intentionally bad game, but it becomes up to your volume of tolerance for this sort of amusement. Like Minecraft, it's limited by your imagination, and unfortunately, I don't have much tolerance for this kind of hilarity. Goat Simulator is painfully aware at what it set out to be, stupid fun. The music speaks volumes of its comedic tone. The rag doll physics are 'fine' tuned for maximum ridiculousness. Despite what it's got going for it, Goat Simulator's form of entertainment didn't last long at all for me and only served to highlight the problem with games of this caliber: poorly made games are passed off for only giggles rather than addressing that they do indeed ****.






























