Goat Simulator: Remastered Review (Katapotato_33)
I was very excited for this, but there are way too many problems for me to properly justify buying this game when you already own the original goat sim.
1- the original game has way more achievements.
2- the controls are worse. I played on deck controller. running was very sensitive and slightly touching the controller caused my goat to run instead of walk, alongside it being harder to walk sideways.
- adding onto that: for some reason wall running is way less sensitive now and its way harder to wall run at all anymore unless it is a perfectly long wall.
3- no more adult jokes? at least make it a toggle or something.
4- ONLY goat high from the mobile version? what about all the other stuff that is exclusive to other console editions like the holiday events?
5- performance issues where doing stuff like sacrificing to the summon circle caused a massive lag spike to the point i was concerned it would crash the game.
adding onto that:
6- the graphics settings are VERY minimal. for some reason on steam deck the game looked very gritty, going into settings I found no sharpness level or anything. It only has basics like motion blur and such.
7- AND extremely bright and overly saturated graphics that really strain the eyes.
8- online multiplayer is gone??? why???
9- no workshop support?? that was half the fun of the original game!
I know its goat simulator. I know its meant to be a janky game that you shouldn't take that much seriously.... but i already payed for that janky experience 10 years ago! even shitpost games like goat simulator has an expectation to be improved if you want to justify a 40 dollar remastered edition price tag.
if you never played goat simulator before, this game is cheaper than buying the original game + dlc. It even has a neat in-game mutator editor so you don't have to reset the game every time you change a mutator.
but if you already own goat sim? don't bother. just play goat sim classic.
and the mobile version is literally free to download and play on your phone and actually has the exclusive content not in this version.