Goat Simulator
Worth it · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 2.2h
- Value
- $4.54/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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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.
Goat Simulator is the latest in high-tech Goat Simulation technology.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was November 2016. 90 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 69 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 Fun with Ragdolls: The Game ($14.99, scores 38).
Critics scored it 62. Players sit 29 points higher at 91 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
31 of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 16,409 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.
The drop-off
55% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
71 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
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I definitely haven't played this game for 450+ hours, but it's funny to tell people it's one of my most played games, even if it was due to an old steam bug.
This game is so funny, i couldn't stop laughing about it all night. It's so funny because of the physics of the people you can headbutt or kick and the funny game references in it, I even got one of the hardest achivements in the game, The Flapmaster. Final thoughts, this is a funny 10/10 game, play it now!
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Goat Simulator scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/265930/goat-simulatorThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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