![]() ![]() Completing quests in the world awards Wisdom. That castle does provide a clear goal to work towards. Plus, there are plenty of secret goals to stumble across, all in the service of upgrading the goat castle. Littered all across the larger maps is a litany of quests to undertake, new costume parts, some of which have function, and trophies to find. Instead, Coffee Stain placed the focus on exploration and being a jerk, allowing for a whole new kind of fun. There's predictability to the playground, which alone makes this feel like a new animal. Gone is the horror show of character models bending to terrifying degrees. This sequel goes a different direction from the original: it’s actually polished. It was a game made for streaming and spawned too many knockoffs that didn’t understand that there was actual game design underneath the seemingly lazy game development. This was instructive to the audience, as it showed things breaking down, while still being entertaining with the density of things to find and try. Things stretched to horrifying degrees, physics would often give up on life and fling things into the atmosphere, and nothing ever worked as it should. It was a masterclass on what happens when polish isn’t done. In retrospect, this shouldn’t have been surprising. Much like the titular goat, though, the title did what it shouldn’t: it gained an audience. It was never meant to actually gain an audience. It was meant to be this silly thing for the player to goof around and have fun. In fact, the studio famously said that they wouldn’t fix anything in the title that wasn’t game breaking. It was announced as an April Fool’s joke that became real, and Coffee Stain Studios didn’t put much effort in. ![]() The original Goat Simulator wasn’t supposed to do as well as it did. Running down pedestrians and being a whirling agent of chaos, it was obvious that this direct sequel to the original hasn’t lost its touch despite the greater level of polish. ![]() This eventually brought a fire truck, which was quickly stolen and taken for a joy ride throughout the farmlands that make up the opening areas of the game. These flames are not gas station proof, and the entire pump island detonated. It was then that I learned that the Holy One wasn’t done with me, His almighty finger striking me down with righteous flames. Soon after, I stumbled into a gas station and began exploring, looking for a key for the bathroom door. Moving along, my barnyard friend still crackled with energy, but it eventually dissipated. His holy hand smote me with lightning, and the goat writhed in pain. Ten minutes into Goat Simulator 3, I had already incurred the wrath of God for licking the golden Forbidden Fruit. ![]()
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