The GOAT Surfer
Posted December 12, 2024. Updated February 11, 2025. Played 5100 times for a total of 6049 hours.
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🌊 The GOAT Surfer - An Incremental Surfing Simulator [Early Access/Feedback Wanted]
Hey fellow incremental gamers! I'm excited to share my first game: The GOAT Surfer - where you'll start as absolute surfer noob and progress to become the Greatest of All Times.
I wanted to make an incremental game slightly influenced by titles like Progress knight or Magic research, but to stay in real life, maybe to add just a bit of supernatural skills :)
Features which I think make it unique:
- Catch waves, master new skills and become the Greatest Surfer Of All Times
- unlock new locations and quests and upgrades
- learn new jobs and career paths, earn money and respect,
- surfing simulation in increasingly more difficult locations around the world
The game is in early development, and I'd love your feedback.
latest update
0.3.2 release - chapter 3, competitions and more 0.3.2 February 11, 2025
**🚀 Release 0.3.2 is Live! **
This is quite a big release. Here’s what’s new:
** Competitions! 🏆 **(Unlocked in Mediterranean after completing main quest 1.4. You will need to skill up to surf level 3 to have a chance to win )
** Hazards & Injuries ⚠️**
Injuries and damages now deduct energy and money but occur less frequently.
Wave height increases the probability and severity of both injury and damage.
Fitness decreases the probability of injury.
** Cloud Login & Game Save ☁️**
You can now save your game in the cloud using Discord, Google, or Email.
After the full release, this will be the only save option.
** Full game activation -** The plan for a future game is to have a free demo (2 chapters) and paid full game. At the moment you can activate full game without payment as a thanks for your early support.
To activate the game you will need to use the cloud login which does not work in embedded deployments in iframe like on galaxy.click website. You will need to use the original page https://goat-surfer.netlify.app/ to progress to next chapters. Tip: You can export and import game save from settings page.
New Content
** 🌍 Chapter 3 – Portugal**
** 🏋️ Gym Options**
New unlockable features to improve fitness.
Bug Fixes & Improvements
🛠️ UI Improvements
- Some menu items are now hidden until they become relevant in the story.
- Overall surf skill now displays with a decimal and is represented as a star rating (used for competitions).
- Fixed money formatting so values don’t jump to a second row.
- Various small fixes
🌊 Gameplay Adjustments
- Catch probability capped at 97% (instead of 100%). This ensures wipeouts still happen occasionally, making certain quests possible.
- Game Time Display Overhaul
No more confusion between full days and work days.
All income, energy regeneration, and recurring fees are now shown in hours.
Added a clear indicator of passing game time and game speed.
🎬 Surf Screen Tweaks
Removed horizontal animation for surf skills; only vertical wave animation remains.
newest comments
Great idea and looks clean, but I find the layout confusing. Took me five minutes to even begin the first quest. I'd like to see shop and inventory separated, and place the inventory on the main screen, under the rest-work-surf bar; this would make it easier to equip and change accommodation before going broke. If cheating is a concern, have the accommodation unchangeable while doing activities. Energy recovery is slow - not sure if better accommodation or surfing increases energy recovery at this stage. Also, could be a bug: max energy doesn't go down after moving from hostel back to car. Have the rest-work-surf bar more prominent on the main screen. Combining the surf activity and stats screen would be a fun way to see the skills increase in real time: as it stands, the wave animations are too fast to read during surfing. Also, depending on your narrative goals, the ability to name your surfer would be cool. Thanks and all the best for future development.
Too slow energy recover. PLEASE LET IT RUN WHEN IM OFF TAB
I can't tell if my save is broken or not. I have "All quests completed! Join our Discord to be first to know about the next updates." But if I go to france, I have a side quest Hossegor's Blessing which requires "contest_placement: top_1". Also, I can't advance my surf level to 4 because I haven't unlocked two skills that it requires. I was able to get 1st place on the competition in the meditarian (the easier one), but getting the other is unlikely when my skill is 3.9, which is below the competitor average of 4. Also, it seems like I should have access to portugal because I've completed 2.4, but I don't. Game is borked?
great, thank you from Brasil, i played it since the first version and i am liking it updates
This isn't a bad game at all, but this should not be a paid game. It's too shallow content-wise.
top comments
Am I the only one who would like energy to recover a bit faster in the beginning? Other than that, this is amazing for a first game.
Please make the energy gen faster or at least try to add offline energy regen or make it still be active when I'm not on this tab
other then that, Great game
Very good game, energy regen is a little slow though
Did this game just update and place a cap on energy? Which is the opposite of what people were commenting on?
And apparently it doesn't automatically continue the last action after energy's been filled up again. Maybe that's an upgrade? If it's missing entirely that's kinda questionable. Why have it automatically rest but not continue what it was doing?
developer response: There was a bug in the first version 0.1 where the cap was not respected under some conditions. That was fixed in 0.1.1.
Automations for work/surf and other things will be added as unlockables as you progress the game.
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