 Coffee Stain Studios released Goat Simulator worldwide on 1 April 2014 , aware that tying the date with April Fools ' Day may raise doubts on the validity of the game . Those that pre @-@ ordered the game through Coffee Stain 's website received early access to the title three days ahead of release . The official release trailer for Goat Simulator is a loose parody of the highly praised teaser trailer released for Dead Island , showing , among shots of the game , reversed slow @-@ motion footage of the goat crashing through a building after being launched from an exploding gas station . 
