Goat Simulator

Goat Simulator

Developers
	Coffee Stain Studios
macOS (OS X)	Ryan C. Gordon
Linux	Ryan C. Gordon
Publishers
	Coffee Stain Studios
Engines
	Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows	April 1, 2014
macOS (OS X)	June 27, 2014
Linux	June 27, 2014

Key points

Game will be purposefully buggy for the sake of humor; bugs causing the game to crash are not intentional, and fixes for them should be included here.

General information

Official game site

Official wiki

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
Official website
Amazon.com
GamersGate
Green Man Gaming
Humble Store
Microsoft Store
Steam		GOATY Edition also available.

Downloadable content (DLC) and expansions

Name	Notes
Goat MMO Simulator	Available for free
GoatZ	Part of the GOATY Edition
Original Soundtrack	Part of the GOATY Edition
PAYDAY	Part of the GOATY Edition
Waste of Space	Part of the GOATY Edition

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\GoatSim\GoatGame\Config\*\ <path-to-game>\Engine\Config\*\
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)	~/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/GoatSimulator/GoatSimulator.app/Contents/Resources/GoatGame/Config/*/
Linux	$HOME/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/GoatSimulator/GoatGame/Config/*/

* represents a DLC folder name, which may include Zombie, Space, Heist, MMO, Vanilla, and Common. The folder name for configuration files depends on which DLC are owned.

This game does not follow the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System	Location
Microsoft Store
Steam	<Steam-folder>/userdata/<user-id>/265930/remote/goatprogression

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud		Approx. 600 MB available.

Video settings

In-game options menu.

In-game advanced video settings.

Graphics option	Option	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor			See the WSGF entry.
Ultra-widescreen			See the WSGF entry.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)		Game has a built-in FOV slider.
Windowed		Windowed is default, can be changed to fullscreen.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		16x by default. Accessible through goatsystemsettings.ini
Anti-aliasing (AA)		Up to 8x MSAA. Anti-aliasing not available on Linux.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS		62 FPS default cap; see High frame rate.

High frame rate

Change FPS cap Go to the configuration files location. Open BaseEngine.ini. Change MaxSmoothedFrameRate= to the frame rate cap you want. Save your changes.

Input settings

In-game key map settings.

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support		XInput only.
Full controller support		The start screen prompt must be answered with controller input in order to navigate the menus with a gamepad.
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Additional information
Button prompts
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio settings

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, sound and voice.
Surround sound		5.1
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Arabic
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese				There are some translation errors
Russian
Spanish
Turkish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
Local play		4	Split-screen.
LAN play
Online play

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9
OpenGL	2.0	OS X and Linux only.
Shader Model support	3
64-bit executable		Some mods require 64-bit executable, which can be manually copied from Development Kit.

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Physics	PhysX
Interface	Scaleform

System requirements

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Linux

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Vista	7, 8
Processor (CPU)	Dual Core 2.0 GHz	Quad Core 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	DirectX 9.0c compatible Shader model 3.0 support	512 MB of VRAM
Sound (audio device)	DirectX 9.0c compatible, 16-bit

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10.7	10.8
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5 1.3 GHz	Intel Core i5 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	Intel HD Graphics 4000 Dual Core 2.0 GHz 256 MB of VRAM Shader model 3.0 support	Intel HD Graphics 5000 512 MB of VRAM
Other		2013 models or better

Linux
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Processor (CPU)	Dual Core 2.0 GHz	Quad Core 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	4 GB	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	2 GB
Video card (GPU)	256 MB of VRAM Shader model 3.0 support	512 MB of VRAM
Other		Nvidia/AMD drivers are recommended