Goat Simulator 3 review – A wacky yet meaningful lesson in the etiquette of an entitled goat

The original Goat Simulator launched in 2014, and while it’s made me laugh a lot in the eight years since, the gameplay sessions have kept getting shorter and shorter until the silly goat game faded into obscurity altogether. . With that being said, Goat Simulator 3 goes where no goat has ventured before. The game builds on its predecessor in so many ways that it makes sense that Coffee Stain North decided to skip Goat Simulator 2 entirely, other than wanting to troll its audience.

Goat Simulator 3 will have you start your life in the fictional kingdom of Saint Angora as Pilgor, a goat who loves to ride on his butt. If you’re familiar with the original goat game, you’ll know that your main goal is to cause as much chaos as possible. The objective in Goat Simulator 3 remains the same, albeit with much more direction and targeting than before. There’s also significant progression, making all of your rebellious behavior in San Angora seem that much more worthwhile.

Your goals come in the form of quests and instincts. Instincts are something you’ll be very familiar with from the title above; awarding you points for endless cartwheels, creative methods of destruction, and whatever other silly things you decide to do while flitting from one place to another. On the other hand, the quests will have you interacting with Goat Sim 3’s environment and wacky variety of NPCs, which bring the title so much life that you continually want to go ahead and learn more about them, something I’ve never experienced with Goat Simulator. . I found myself so strangely fascinated that I finished the game in one sitting (read: eight hours, give or take some destructive excursions that often involved poor driving). And I plan to force my friends to play it all over again with me.

There are two missions that I would like to highlight, although there are many more that made me laugh maniacally. First, there’s a guy named Sven. Dressed in an iconic Ikea-inspired outfit, Sven wants your help to build a piece of Sweden. So, go ahead and retrieve the furniture flat packs and place them in Sven’s house. It looks like you’re doing a table wrong, but before you know it, a portal forms; a portal that will not stop producing uniformed Swedes who apparently work at Ikea. Jump through the portal yourself, and just when you think it couldn’t get any stranger, you’ll find yourself in the back room of a famous Scandinavian home goods store. An obvious place for a goat, of course.

In another place, you will meet a grandmother who is not very happy with you because you kicked with your hooves in her garden. As a result, she will continuously fire balls of yarn at you with the pace and power of a grenade launcher. However, she is no match for Pilgor’s headbutt. As a result, the grandmother’s basement is opened – the basement of death. Inside, you find yourself galloping onto a rock track in 64-bit art style, battling more yarn-slinging grannies and acquiring a trinket for all your efforts. It’s a reference to Doom, to be sure, and far from the only pop culture reference smuggled into the game.

Goat Simulator 3 just so happens to provide a lot of tasteful social commentary. More often than not, it puts a comic spin on what the game satirises, fittingly providing ongoing comic relief. As a mere goat, you can fight environmental concerns, run for president, and oppose human experimentation… which involves bananas. Yes, people are turning into rogue Abomibananas in Goat Simulator 3. Make sure you keep an eye out for them (not that you can really miss when a big banana is kicking innocent civilians around the map).

When you’ve completed enough missions and instincts, you’ll find yourself rising through the ranks of the Illuminati. Obviously… Yes, that’s right, this goat is actually a lizard under all that wiry fur. Goat Simulator 3 offers players a hub known as Goat Castle; there are a handful of these around San Angora, and tuning them will unlock more of the map, as well as a new fast travel location for you to use. And of course these centers are linked to the Illuminati. With each new rank successfully achieved, your Goat Castle gets a huge upgrade. Eventually you even get your Abomibanana as a pet experiment; not entirely ethical, but I guess someone has to.

Your quests and instincts also reward you with in-game currency, which can be used to buy new skins. And not only can you play as a pig, a giraffe, or Tony Shark (which is, unsurprisingly, a shark on a skateboard), but you can also use your hard-earned points to buy all sorts of new cosmetics. I eventually had Pilgor hopping around San Angora in rabbit slippers, a tray of sushi balanced precariously on his back, but you can get a lot more creative and a lot more personal in Goat Simulator 3 if you want.

Sadly, multiplayer wasn’t available during my review period, but there are seven mini-games on offer ranging from Hoofball to Prop Hunt. That said, there are plenty of ways to disrupt Saint Angora while you’re on your own, even if it’s something as simple as getting in the way of an NPC while he’s yelling “I’m walking here!” or “Go eat slugs!” I totally think Goat Simulator 3 will shine in multiplayer sessions with friends and family, but that doesn’t make it any less good for solo play.

Goat Simulator 3 has quickly earned a high place on my list of comfortable games, despite all the messy action involved; at one point, he also takes the edge off Elon Musk, which made me laugh a lot about the state of Twitter right now.

This titled goat game does everything you wish the original Goat Simulator did and more. The kids, the whimsical joy of discovering a level like Cellar of Doom and witnessing just how much of a mess an uncontrollable goat can cause will make Goat Simulator 3 one of the best cooperative games to sit down and reboot. Watch this space, because Pilgor and I are a pretty unstoppable duo, and this won’t be the last time you see us.