The GOAT Surfer
Posted December 12, 2024. Updated today. Played 2931 times for a total of 3457 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
New release 0.2.0 - Automations and Equipment 0.2.0 today
Hey Surfers! It's time for a new Release 0.2.0
🎉 New Features
Automations: Work automation unlocks after completing the first chapter (retroactively enabled for eligible players). Additional automations unlockable in later chapters.
Equipment : Surfboards: Only the active surfboard affects multipliers, preventing stacking effects from all purchased boards. Housing: Pay daily rent for increased energy recovery and other perks. Other Equipment: Gyms, coaches, and subscriptions can now be purchased, reducing income but providing valuable benefits.
🐛 Bug Fixes Surf Page: Now paginated to improve performance with large numbers of waves. Tabs Memory: Tabs on Upgrades, Stats, and Skills are remembered after screen changes or game reloads. UI Improvements: Minor fixes for a smoother experience.
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newest comments
Any ETA on when new content will be added?
developer response: New functionality - Automations and Equipment dropped today.
Chapter 3 and roadmap to the full game coming soon.
cool game, I'd like to see maybe a side panel of different buttons instead of having to go between so many menus. great game for just a start.
I paid $20 to spend an hour surfing, only saw 3 waves and didn't catch a single one. In other words, this is a 100% realistic surfing simulator. Great work!
developer response: As in real world, improve your skills - especially fitness and paddling and you will squeeze in way more waves in that hour :)
Genuinely the concept is charming, but my god is the fucking loop just in that dead zone where it's not idle enough to check in via a tab in every few seconds but not active enough to play actively.
developer response: I hear you and many other commentors, that this is a major shortcoming. Working on it...
I like how for a full day's energy (20) you can work for 8 hours or surf for 1 hour.
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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