Well here’s a nice surprise. Coffee Stain Studios’ inexplicably entertaining goat simulator game, titled Goat Simulator, has just launched in the New Zealand App Store. Coffee Stain announced on their Twitter yesterday that Goat Simulator for iOS and Android would be launching on September 18th. As TouchArcade regulars know by now, when a game is scheduled for a Thursday launch, it actually hits the US App Store late Wednesday night at 11pm EST. Prior to that, it hits the NZ App Store on Wednesday morning at about 6am EST, when it’s midnight in that territory. So what the heck is Goat Simulator doing launching in NZ on a Tuesday afternoon? I don’t know! I don’t ask questions, I just download Goat Simulator like a good boy.
I suspect that Coffee Stain might have just had an itchy trigger finger and flipped the release switch a bit earlier than planned, or there was a mixup with scheduling its release date, or any other number of things which has provided the world with Goat Simulator sooner than expected. If you’re in New Zealand, you should be able to grab the game with the link below, but if you’re in other territories, also try the link and see if it’s available for you. If it is, let us know in the comments. Otherwise we’ll keep our eye on Goat Simulator and will post an update to this story (or possibly a new story) when and if the game lands in the US App Store later in the day.
Update: Goat Simulator has indeed launched a day early. Goats don’t mess around, they don’t have time to waste. You can grab the game from the US store or anywhere in the world using the link below. Forum impressions can be found here.
App Store Link: Goat Simulator, $4.99 (Universal)
As someone who hasn't played a game like this before, it's pretty boring to me. I don't know what I'm missing, but I guess I was hoping for some sort of mix of civilization and and old PC game I've played about world domination using research/science/nuclear strikes.
The review makes it sound like a quality game, but I'm still on the fence on this one. As a long time gaming addict I like practically any decent game, though Civ never really lit my fire and I never played Risk. So, not sure whether to take a risk (see what I did there...) with purchasing this one.
Hmm, what to do, what to do...
Gaming addict who never played risk? To put your mind at ease, the similarities to risk are topical, this is more galcon than a turn based boardgame.
It's fun on a Sunday afternoon, but nowhere near the quality and replayability of a true 4.5-5 star game in a similar genre such as Plague Inc.
Gets 3 stars from me.
I love a good strategy game. I may have to pick this one up.
"Welcome to Rapture" -BioShock
Excellent game, totally fair on its gameplay, well deserved the stars!
One of the developers here: As it came up in the review, I just wanted
to mention that version 1.1.1 (released 9th March 2015) adds multiplayer
for up to 4 players over Game Center or WiFi.