Goat Simulator
Worth it · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$1.9980% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $4.54/hr
- ReviewsS
- 91% of 70,403
- Critics
- 62 players 29 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Strategy
Holding it back: Refunds, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 2.2h
- To 100%
- 11.8h 5.4x the story
- Achievements
- 127
Price and sales
- Sales
- 91 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 November 2016
- Sale every
- 39d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 77 now
- Recent reviews
- 94% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 29% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
54% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
91 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Human Fall Flat ($5.99, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Goat Simulator: Remastered ($29.99, scores 58).
More about Goat Simulator
Critics scored it 62. Players sit 29 points higher at 91 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
37 of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2023 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 174 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 3 of the 37 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 16,433 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
2.2 hours to finish it, 12 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 5.4 times the campaign.
At 2.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
goated nostalgic game, though if you have windows 11 and want to 100% this game, have fun with the crashes and fixing that
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Barmy, deliberately janky game. You play as a goat, licking & headbutting the world into submission. 10/10 would rave on a rooftop with Deadmau5 again.
SCORES Gameplay / Mechanics - 5/10 Story & Narrative - 0/10 Graphics / Art Style - 5/10 Sound & Music - 7/10 Level / World Design - 6/10 Replay Value - 5/10 PROS & CONS 👍 - Lots of mutations to unlock and experiment with. - Tons of references to movies, other games, and pop culture. 👎 - Performance issues (perfect if you want to fry your CPU) - The game is SOOO buggy. - Getting 100% of the achievements can be really...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Goat Simulator is the latest in high-tech Goat Simulation technology.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Shader Model 3.0, 256 MB VRAM, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Goat Simulator scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/265930/goat-simulatorReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.