GOAT is frequently used to describe someone as the greatest ever, but you probably would never consider it being applied to actual goats in gaming. While pretty popular in real life with goat yoga and the like, it just so happens that these intelligent and adorable horned animals also appear in a creative number of ways throughout video games.
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Over the years, many memorable and diverse goats have been bleating to their own drum in video games. Whether actual playable characters, somewhere in the environment, or even possibly enemies, these are some of the best gaming has to offer.
10Princess - The Witcher 3
Geralt can’t be hunting and slaying monsters every step of the way inThe Witcher 3’s main story. Sometimes there comes a quest where his services are required to help NPCs with more simple tasks, such as locating a missing goat. This particular goat’s name is Princess, and she belongs to a Pellar who Geralt seeks out for an important ritual.
Finding Princess becomes more of a highlight than you may think, where you use your Witcher senses, protect her from predators, and ring a bell to lure her. Princess seems like your average farm goat, but her milk becomes a vital ingredient for the seeing spell the Pellar performs to reveal more information about the Baron’s family.
9Goats Of Warding - Resident Evil Village
Destructible collectibles are as essential to theResident Evilseries as the zombie action and survival horror suspense. The remake of the second game featured Mr. Raccoon toys for its collectible around the map, and the third had the Charlie Dolls.Resident Evil Villagewent a creepier route with its Goats of Warding.
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The Goats of Warding are wooden goat figures that appear around the map for you to shoot, with their heads spookily bobbing up and down by some invisible hex. Their design gives a very believable look of being hand-carved, and they add a lot to the supernatural mystery of the village setting.
8Devil Goat - Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
The Blood Dragon DLC expansion forFar Cry 3re-envisions the entire island as a retro cyberpunk world filled with cyborg soldiers and mutated enemies. It kept the same animals you’d encounter in the original version of the game but changed their looks quite a bit to make them fit the new futuristic aesthetic.
Now the island is filled with menacing Cybersharks, with glowing eyes and skin forged of metal, as well as the immense laser-beam Blood Dragons. The goats also experienced changes to their design to appear more grotesque, with chunks of bone and flesh exposed around their body, particularly along the face. Their name Devil Goat is a worthy title as their transformation is most ominous.
7Yule Goat - Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
Goats in theAssassin’s Creedgames are likewise found roaming around the map and can be hunted to acquire material for crafting. TheValhallaentry, however, brought in a unique kind of goat tied to the cultural winter customs of ancient Scandinavian paganism. It’s the hand-crafted figure known as a Yule goat, which is still part of the modern Nordic culture during the winter solstice celebration.
Yule goats are made of straw and often wrapped together by red ribbons. They also come in various sizes, from enormous statues to basic Christmas ornaments. You’ll have an opportunity to purchase a Yule goat in Valhalla through a side quest in Jorvik Village called Warmth of Winter, which takes a solemn turn.
6Satyr Captain - God Of War: Ascension
Before Kratos made his new home in the Norse realms and faced everything they threw at him, he had unfinished business with the Greek Pantheon in the earlier games. Across the installments,God of Warhas incorporated many creatures from Greek mythology as its main enemiesfor Kratos to juggle, even goat ones like the Satyrs.
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Satyrs, not to be confused with centaurs, are depicted as humans with goat-like legs, hooves, and horns. God of War interprets them as full-body goats with humanlike stature and movement. The mightiest among them is the Satyr Captain debuting in 2013’s Ascension, who commands the ordinary satyrs. He has a scowling face, four sets of horns, two at his cheeks, and is clothed in bulky armor.
5Destructive Goats - Goat Simulator Series
So far, the goats have been inanimate objects, enemies, and environmental resources in games. The goats in theGoat Simulatorseries are wacky ones that you’re able to actually play to wreak as much chaos and destruction as possible. The physics may feel incredibly silly, but that’s the whole fun of it.
Here your goat can get run over, launch itself sky-high, andcomically drag people around like ragdolls. There have been two main entries and tons of DLCs, which give you astronaut goats that invade space with their antics and zombie goats whose goal is to infect the population. There are countless creative mutations that even a Yule goat is available in the MMO DLC.
4Combat Goats - Goat Of Duty
Just when you think goats don’t get any more ridiculous in games, you have goats with blaster attachments ready for battle in a PvP deathmatch. Acomedic spoof on Call of Duty, Goat of Duty is an early-access first-person shooter game where you can partake in different multiplayer deathmatch modes of up to ten players, all from the perspective of a goat.
These goats come with a variety of “goatstumes,” of which some are references to other video games and movies, like Fallgoat, which has a gas mask and is dressed in an outfit similar to the Vault jumpsuit from theFalloutseries. The weapons also vary and are attached to the goat via a robotic appendage.
3Baa’l - World Of Warcraft
An engaging component ofWorld of Warcraftis the ability to have companion pets, as well as some that can join you in battle. Like the glowing red eyes and the name suggests, Baa’l is a demonic type of goat that you may have as a battle pet, yetan extremely adorable one.
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Baa’l will be located in Frostfire Ridge after a quest in which you collect a series of pebbles in a specific order is completed. This gray goat is smaller than most you’ll encounter and has four delicate horns protruding from the head, a gold hoop earring in one ear, and identical ritualistic markings all over his skin.
2Minecraft’s Goats
Goats are an animal mob found high up in the mountain biomes inMinecraftintroduced in the 2021 1.17 update, and you’ll instantly fall in love with them. These goats haveso many fun aspects about themand come in a wide range of temperaments, from peaceful to screaming and violent. A cute baby goat will spawn among the herd as well.
Minecraft develops a remarkable art style where everything consists of blocks but is still easily discernable, especially the fine details on the goats. Their blocky pixilated appearance is iconic, and you can even see the outline of their beard along the chin. And similar to Goat of Duty and Goat Simulator, these can also get a considerably high jump in.
1Gowngoats - Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak
Gowngoats are some of the most stunning and majestic animals to wander the plains inMonster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak. Unlike other beasts you’ll encounter, they’re peaceful herbivores that love to graze and roll into a ball and won’t ever attempt to harm you.
Gowngoats are long furry beings that feel more like the combined size of three or four regular goats. Their skin is covered in patches of scales, and their large bushy tails are reminiscent of a peacock’s. The horns are somewhat unusual and almost hidden, but their drooping ears are the cutest feature.
