Goat Simulator Review

The most realistic simulation game ever created?

Goat Simulator is a simulation game created by Coffee Stain Studios, creators of Sanctum 2. It is a game designed to show the life of a young goat in a field living out his life to the fullest. Except this goat is a little special and has headbutts that can blow up cars and a tongue which can drag boulders of death around the world. In reality, this game is about causing as much destruction as possible whilst also trying to find all the secrets in the map to gain bonus points. As of current, the game sets place in a relatively small town, but there is bigger towns that can be seen, though there is an invisible wall in the way. Whether the other towns will ever be used is unknown, as of yet there is no actual plans to expand the game world according to the game profile on steam. However, it is also linked with the Steam workshop. so there will be a hell of a lot of user based content able to be downloaded. There is no storyline as it is a highly unrealistic simulator about a goat. The graphics are pretty good, even if there is nothing exactly graphically complex about the world. There is a hell of a lot of bugs in the game, include the goat's neck glitching out whenever you use a ladder and actually most of the time. The developers have said "We're only eliminating the crash-bugs, everything else is hilarious and we're keeping it ." showing that this game is quite clearly not meant to be taken seriously.  However, it is a £7 game. For a game of that price, you would expect a fair bit of gameplay (considering that Angry Birds and the likes can provide days of gameplay on a phone for 99p), but gameplay is a thing that is highly lacking in the game. One aspect which tries to prolong the re-playability (if you could call it that) is a custom game mode where you can add speacial abilities earned by collecting the goat statues across the map and by completing the achievement based challenges. After about an hour or two though, you will get bored. Unless you are someone who really likes extremely buggy hilarity, it will only last an hour or so and then you will get bored and wonder why you ever paid that much for this. The thing is, it''s kind of a gimic of a game, not meant to be taken seriously. Unless Coffee Stain Studios expand the size of the map, it offers very little to players. Therefore, this game will probably join my collection of games that get played for an hour then left in the deep dark corner of the Steam Library.