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Escape Goat 2 Puzzle-Platformer Released, Our Video & Review

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Escape Goat 2 is now available on Linux from developer Ian Stocker, I put it through its paces to see if it's a good goat simulator or not.

Spoiler: It's not a good goat simulator, but it is a good game.

The game was ported to Linux for release by by Ethan Lee, otherwise known as flibitijibibo and the port is of excellent build quality as far as I can see and I have played rather a lot of it.

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My Thoughts
It starts off as most puzzle-platformers do by giving you simple puzzles to begin with and steadily ramping up the difficulty. It felt a little like the first time I played Full Bore, as I fell in love with this silly little on-screen goat that wags its tail when standing still.

Everything feels very smooth and it's a real worthy successor to the original, the game-pad support is perfect too, although it states to plug in your Xbox game-pad my Thrustmaster worked perfectly when plugged in and the game was far more fun with a game-pad.

You aren't alone in this strange world either, you end up finding a little critter to help you on your travels and helpful it is. Using another creature you don't directly control while jumping around yourself keeps the game pretty interesting.

It starts heating up a bit when you get past the first few levels and you do need to stop and think for a bit. There are deadly creatures that shoot fireballs setting thing alight, so you need to trick them into firing where you need them to. I got that wrong a few times, best not to rush when you see them!

The sound-track is pretty decent as well and seems to fit nicely with the setting, found myself humming along now and then, so that is yet another point in the Escape Goat 2's favour

It's quite unusual of me to actually really enjoy playing a puzzle-platformer, so this game is something special.

I simply cannot fault Escape Goat 2. It has renewed my faith in puzzle-platformer games, that I felt was previously a very tired genre. That'll do goat, that'll do *pats on the head*.

Where can I buy it already?! I need more goats in my life!
You can find it on Humble Store and on Steam for $9.99 and it is well worth it.



Also for the code nerds amongst us:

Escape Goat 2 for Mac/Linux debuts the new OpenGLDevice and the new AL_SOFT_MSADPCM/AL_SOFT_block_alignment extensions in OpenAL Soft.

Ethan Lee (@flibitijibibo) March 24, 2014
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manny Mar 25, 2014
nice flibiti !
s_d Mar 26, 2014
Interesting to see Double Fine Productions getting into the publishing business. Having more cool, small, indie publishers is probably a very good thing (as we're seeing with Devolver, Pheonix Online Studios, etc).
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