Escape Goat 2

MagicalTimeBean Developer

Double Fine Presents Publisher

2014-03-24 Release

Action Indie Casual SingleplayerTags

Game News Posts: 9

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🎮 Full Controller Support

Very Positive (202 reviews)

http://www.escapegoat2.com/

Steam Store

The Game includes VR Support

Public Linux Depots:

Escape Goat 2 Linux [250.98 M]

Version 1.1 BETA, including Steam Workshop + Level Editor

Welcome to the first major update! We changed and added so many things, we figured it would be safer to keep this in a special beta branch until it's proven to be stable. To access this version of the game, right click on Escape Goat 2 in your Steam library, then go to Properties, Betas, and enter the code "goatimusminimus" and hit Ok. Now select BETA from the dropdown, and the game will auto-update and should say "Escape Goat 2 [beta]" in your library.

New features

Added 'Mutators' menu option under Settings. Mutators are unlocked when you beat the game (any %). They will eventually be tied to individual accomplishments in the game, but for now they all unlock at once for testing purposes.
Speedrun tracks per-room times and shows you the total game time for your save.
Super Meat Goat shows you all your attempts at the room when you finally complete it.
Grim Darkness turns out the lights, forcing you to combine your memory of room layouts with careful use of the sheep & goat as lamps.
Unseen Doom hides enemies. Have fun guessing where the fireballs are going to come from!
Spectral Goat makes the goat invisible unless he's standing still or dashing. Precise platforming gets trickier!
Two new incredibly stupid cheats for getting past that one level that drives you crazy. You know, that one. We both know which level it is. Boy do I hate that level.

Steam Workshop

Create and share your own levels
Build a collection of custom levels and rate your favorites
Currently you can only edit single rooms, not whole campaigns. We'll figure out some solution for multi-room creations later.
There are lots of physics and gameplay glitches you will expose if you start combining gadgets in interesting ways (for example, the game can't yet cope with multiple mouse powerups).
Only keyboard supported for now; gamepad editing works if you know the buttons (from EG1); mouse + keyboard editing coming soon.

*** BEWARE *** As we fix these things in the game engine, it might break your level. Any level you make in the beta version of the editor might become unusable in the final version! This is especially true for levels with machinery that relies on precise timing to operate.

Bug fixes

Crash when using certain mouse abilities one frame after spawning the mouse.
Occasional glitch when changing music tracks
Game running too fast when vsync is enabled in game but disabled in your video drivers, and aero is off
Some game crashes would not produce a debug log
In some scenarios the crash message could not be shown
Particular characters in the path to the game or the save files could cause a crash
Slight in-game timer accuracy problem when vsync was enabled
In some scenarios the game would run too slowly if vsync was enabled
Crashes could occur in obscure lighting configurations / after changing lighting settings

Other

Overall graphics performance has been improved.
Improved performance when HDR is disabled.
Improved performance in stained glass rooms.
Performance statistics available in-game by pressing Shift-F4.
Open source acknowledgements and URLs added to credits
Edit '%AppData%MagicalTimeBeanEscape Goat 2DataDirectory.txt' to move EG2's save and configuration files out of the My Documents folder (to put them in your dropbox, for example).
Usability tweaks to the menus.

[ 2014-04-02 00:27:21 CET ] [ Original post ]

Version 1.1 BETA, including Steam Workshop + Level Editor

New features

Added 'Mutators' menu option under Settings. Mutators are unlocked when you beat the game (any %). They will eventually be tied to individual accomplishments in the game, but for now they all unlock at once for testing purposes.
Speedrun tracks per-room times and shows you the total game time for your save.
Super Meat Goat shows you all your attempts at the room when you finally complete it.
Grim Darkness turns out the lights, forcing you to combine your memory of room layouts with careful use of the sheep & goat as lamps.
Unseen Doom hides enemies. Have fun guessing where the fireballs are going to come from!
Spectral Goat makes the goat invisible unless he's standing still or dashing. Precise platforming gets trickier!
Two new incredibly stupid cheats for getting past that one level that drives you crazy. You know, that one. We both know which level it is. Boy do I hate that level.

Steam Workshop

Create and share your own levels
Build a collection of custom levels and rate your favorites
Currently you can only edit single rooms, not whole campaigns. We'll figure out some solution for multi-room creations later.
There are lots of physics and gameplay glitches you will expose if you start combining gadgets in interesting ways (for example, the game can't yet cope with multiple mouse powerups).
Only keyboard supported for now; gamepad editing works if you know the buttons (from EG1); mouse + keyboard editing coming soon.

Bug fixes

Crash when using certain mouse abilities one frame after spawning the mouse.
Occasional glitch when changing music tracks
Game running too fast when vsync is enabled in game but disabled in your video drivers, and aero is off
Some game crashes would not produce a debug log
In some scenarios the crash message could not be shown
Particular characters in the path to the game or the save files could cause a crash
Slight in-game timer accuracy problem when vsync was enabled
In some scenarios the game would run too slowly if vsync was enabled
Crashes could occur in obscure lighting configurations / after changing lighting settings

Other

Overall graphics performance has been improved.
Improved performance when HDR is disabled.
Improved performance in stained glass rooms.
Performance statistics available in-game by pressing Shift-F4.
Open source acknowledgements and URLs added to credits
Edit '%AppData%\MagicalTimeBean\Escape Goat 2\DataDirectory.txt' to move EG2's save and configuration files out of the My Documents folder (to put them in your dropbox, for example).
Usability tweaks to the menus.

[ 2014-04-02 00:27:21 CET ] [ Original post ]

"The game’s flow from challenge to discovery is a masterwork for the genre ..." - Ars Technica

Escape Goat 2 is a puzzle platformer game where you use machinery, the environment, and a friendly mouse to progress through a dungeon.

Overview: None have overcome the Stronghold of Toragos... will you be the first goat to do so? Escape Goat 2 is the follow-up to the critically-acclaimed 2011 indie game, featuring more than double the content: larger rooms, HD graphics, dynamic lighting, and a host of devilish new traps.

Pick your path through the massive Stronghold, divided into ten unique zones. Worry not, brave Goat, for you have a friend on this mission: Your immortal mouse familiar can crawl to otherwise unreachable areas, to hit switches and distract enemies. Use your wits, reason, reflexes and courage to overcome each room, and save your friends from an eternal slumber...

Over 100 rooms of puzzles, traps, and sheeply lore
With destructible and movable walls, the rooms take on many forms as you manipulate hidden machinery to reach the exit
Fully hand-drawn, hi-def art and animation, brought to life with a custom lighting engine
Epic 90's Redbook Audio soundtrack, featuring guest track by Disasterpeace (composer, FEZ)

Listen to the soundtrack!

MINIMAL SETUPOS: glibc 2.15+. 32/64-bit
Processor: 1.8 GHzMemory: 1 GB RAM
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3.0+ support (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable)
Storage: 200 MB available spaceAdditional Notes: S3TC support is NOT required.
RECOMMENDED SETUPOS: glibc 2.15+. 32/64-bit. S3TC texture support
Processor: 2.4 GHzMemory: 2 GB RAM
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 3.3+ support
Storage: 200 MB available space

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