Escape Goat is a cute little puzzle platformer game that deserved to be on Steam much sooner than this. It's not exceptionally long, roughly about 1-2 hours, but it's still very entertaining. The graphics are retro styled and are a good fit for the game.
The heart of the game, the puzzle aspect, isn't extremely hard so pretty much anyone can play and finish the game. Unfortunately, like many other puzzle games, there isn't a very deep story to be found here, but that's ok. Escape Goat's charming visuals and fun puzzles will probbaly win you over anyway. So while we wait for Escape Goat 2 to be released, be a good gamer and play this one first, will you?

Escape Goat is a puzzle platformer. You play as a goat which is able to make high jumps and also to pile some rocks (for destroying them). You will meet a mouse really fast which becomes your friend. Only with the help of the mouse do you stand a chance because it is able to reach smaller places!
Sometimes you can find also items for example a magical hat which is for your mouse. With that hat you can teleport to the places where you have sent your mouse.

The aim is to clear rooms full of traps and machinery. You have to think how you can get all keys and to make it to the unlocked door after it. You have 50 puzzles organized in 10 stages. Of course that isn’t much and if you are a strategic person you will make it really fast but this game is really enjoyable and classic.

I simply adore this game. Everything about it makes me happy: the look, the sound, the music, the title and characters and tone of writing, the way the controls feel, and of course the puzzles that deliver your satisfying "a-ha!" moments.

However, most of all what I love about it is the mechanical movement of all the room elements. You see, most of what you actually do in Escape Goat is trigger switches, wary of their consequences, which typically involve all manner of blocks and platforms and electric arcs and explosives changing positions in ways that are necessary for completing the room but will also kill you if you haven't planned things out properly.

What I find so wonderful is that all of these things that change do so along tracks and pulleys and cogs that animate throughout the background. Blocks do not merely shift into new positions but rather travel to them believably and in concert with other moving pieces. This is hardly necessary to the gameplay, but it creates an aesthetic experience that transports me behind the eyes of a child seeing a trip passage in a fireplace or a hidden compartment under a stair for the first time—every time. I sometimes find myself triggering switches without cause, only to study the resulting machinations. It just sparks my imagination, one of those uncategorizable details of videogames that make them a delight uniquely to you.

Will you agree with my feelings? I have no idea, but it's worth a try, wouldn't you say?

You buy this game. You buy this ♥♥♥♥ing game if you like clever puzzles in any way shape or form.

And then if you really hate yourself, you play the post-game levels, which are so nasty that over a year after buying this, I'm still working on them in this Steam edition. I haven't even opened the fifth world there.

A puzzle game that captures the spirit and difficulty of past classics like Sokoban, Solomon's Key, and Bubble Bobble while introducing new mechanics. It's deep and charming ~50 level designs encompass 9 very different zones. Some will be easier or harder depending on your playing style; collectively, they provide much needed variety.

Also: the graphics and soundtrack embrace early computing aesthetics in a masterful way. Escape Goat is a new classic. ⚷