Baa? Coffee Stain Studios, the developers known for the silly, goofy, janky but ultimately fun sandbox title Goat Simulator (and also still-in-Early-Access factory builder Satisfactory) is getting a sequel.
No, this is not a trailer of the possibly dead-in-development game Dead Island 2.
Announced at the Summer Game Fest 2022 show is… Goat Simulator 3? Yeah, for no reason other than Satisfactory might be secretly the Goat Simulator 2 game, the developers decided to go straight to number 3.
Goat Simulator 3 will continue to provide a sandbox for you to express yourself as Pilgor the goat, alongside three friends. Local and online co-op with up to four players are supported so you can cause even more chaos, or compete against each other in mini-games, as usual goats do?
The key features as been described on the Epic Games Store should give you an idea of what kind of game Goat Simulator 3 is:
- You can be a goat
- Three of your friends can be goats too, and join you in local or online co-op
- No really, there are so many goats. If you want to be fancy you can wear the skins of tall goats, stripey goats, and many more. There’s a goat for everyone!
- Or dress up your goat in all kinds of nonsense, from toilet rolls to tea trays. Put on a jetpack for all we care
- This time we actually hired ‘game designers’ and we’re told they’ve added ‘an ok amount of content’; events, NPCs to mess with, physics, status effects, collectables, easter eggs, lies, betrayal, heartbreak
- They’ve added mini-games too, lots of mini-games (seven is a lot, right?)
- Who said anything about a musical?
- You can be Keanu Ree… (jk, wanted to check you were still reading)
- But you can be a goldfish (true story)
The original Goat Simulator was released at a time when parodies of overly-serious simulator games were funny and in the early days of gaming videos on sites like YouTube. Is Goat Simulator 3 goated with the sauce or not, or in other terms, capture an audience with its brand of zany humour and comedy, we have to wait and see.
Goat Simulator 3 is coming to PlayStation, Xbox and PC via the Epic Games Store. No release date has been given yet.