[Update] Gamescom '14 Quick Pick - Goat Simulator brings the original ungulate accident simulator to iOS

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Goat Simulator was never really supposed to come out. It was a jokey prototype, made during a one-month game jam at the studios of Sanctum developer Coffee Stain Studios.

But then the 'trailer' (which features a goat head-butting people, getting knocked over by cars, and catapulting high into the air like an open-toed ungulate version of Jackass) blew up on YouTube. So Coffee Stain decided to release the game.

It has since gone on to sell over a million copies on Steam.

It's a patently silly game about trying to rack up as much damage as possible. You'll get bonus points for crashing into an angry protest or a marriage proposal or a pool party, and performing stunts.

The game's also full of bugs and glitches that have purposefully been left in place. So if your goat contorts like a crazy rag-doll after he gets his tongue stuck to a passing lorry that's not a bug that's a feature, god dammit.

You can also change your goat on the fly (a feature exclusive to the iOS build, says lead developer Armin Ibrisagic) into a penguin or ostrich or giraffe. You're getting four animal simulators for the price of one, basically.

Or you could equip your goat with a jetpack. Or turn it into a devil goat that can rain down goat corpses or create a vortex that sucks in all nearby props.

Goat Simulator is quite broken, it's barely a game, and it's undeniably stupid. But there's just something fun about trying to make a goat trampoline it's way into moving traffic or fire off a treadmill into a stack of barrels.

And it's much better than the reams of clones that have cropped up on the App Store. But the original, one-and-only Goat Simulator is coming to iOS (and Xbox One, weirdly) when it's finished. We'll let you know.