History ShoutOut / GoatSimulator

** Blue Streak is essentially [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic Goat]], letting you spin in a circle to charge up a super-fast ram.

* Dive into the sewer on the beach map. Inside you can find Creator/MichaelBay [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014 Ninja Turtles]]... that look like WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} for some reason.

* Blowing up a gas station unlocks the "Creator/MichaelBay" achievement. While this is renamed in the console versions to "Bayhem", the pun is preserved.

* Blowing up a gas station unlocks the "Creator/MichaelBay" achievement.

* The goat's canonical name is Pilgor, after Kenny Hotz's goat in the ''Series/KennyVsSpenny'' "Who Can Stay Tied To A Goat the Longest". Hotz himself also appears as an NPC, and is thanked in the credits for giving his permission.

* When you butt a basketball into a goal net in front of the anti-gravity facility, you gain the "Like [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball Zlatan]]" Achievement, a shout-out to Swedish footballer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlatan_Ibrahimovi%C4%87 Zlatan Ibrahimović]]; this is considering, of course, that the developers are Swedish too.

** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvWGLcdI8o8 Official Launch Trailer]] uses a reverse slow motion effect similar to the famous ''VideoGame/DeadIsland'' trailer.
** Blowing up a gas station unlocks the "Creator/MichaelBay" achievement.
** ''VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater's'' influence is evident in the goat tricks and scoring system, as well as the wheelie system.
** Completing the Ritual achievement will cause the caption "[[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Blood For The Blood Goat]]" to appear.
*** Becoming "Queen Of The Goats" will cause the caption "Goats For The Goat Throne" to appear.
** Entering Coffee Stain Studios will allow you to play ''[[VideoGame/FlappyBird Flappy Goat]]''.
** Music/{{Deadmau5}} appears [=DJing=] a party on top of a hotel. [[spoiler:You can steal his mask to become "[=Deadgoa7=]".]]
** When you butt a basketball into a goal net in front of the anti-gravity facility, you gain the "Like [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball Zlatan]]" Achievement, a shout-out to Swedish footballer [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlatan_Ibrahimovi%C4%87 Zlatan Ibrahimović]]; this is considering, of course, that the developers are Swedish too.
** Jumping over a gate into the Anti-Gravity Facility gets you rewarded with a bonus called '''[[Music/{{NWA}} FUCK THE POLICE!]]'''
** The goat transformations are full of these.
*** [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Italian Dinosaur Goat]] lets you eat things and lay explosive eggs like Yoshi, and was in fact named Yoshi Goat in an earlier build.
*** Blue Streak is essentially [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic Goat]], letting you spin in a circle to charge up a super-fast ram.
*** [[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Goatborn]] lets you push stuff around by speaking the Dragon language.
** ''VideoGame/{{Sanctum}}'' has a slew of references:
*** Two Walker statues and the G-2 Companion can be found in the Goatville. The latter tries to punch you.
*** The player can become Sanctum Goat, gaining red hair and an occasional flaming head, by [[spoiler:sacrificing all three of the above]].
*** Space Goat lets you turn into a Bobble Head, which also shows up as a separate goat on the beach map. Slendergoat is created by combining Space Goat and Ripped Goat.
*** Robot Goat lets you turn into the G-2.
** Goat City Bay has ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' blocks which turn you into a ''Minecraft'' goat. Collecting all three lets you place wood, grass, and stone.
** [[Franchise/TheSlendermanMythos Slendergoat]] can be found in Goat City Bay.
** Dive into the sewer on the beach map. Inside you can find Creator/MichaelBay [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014 Ninja Turtles]]... that look like WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} for some reason.
** Near the dam in Goat City Bay is a crashed spaceship. On the hotel balcony is a [[Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy towel with the number "42" printed on it]]. Combine the latter with the former and you become Hitchhiker Goat, which has the power to summon whales from the sky.
** The beach map has a [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 hat store]]. You can steal money from around the map and trade it for hats.
** One of the villages in ''Goat MMO Simulator'' is a reference to Tristram from ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}''.
*** The "Not So Secret Cow Farm" is a reference to the Secret Cow Level in the first two ''Diablo'' games.
** You can find a dwarf named Bilbo in the mines. Dumping him into the lava in Old Goat mountain will net you the achievement ''[[Literature/TheHobbit An Unnecessary Journey]]''.
** You can find [[Videogame/PAYDAY2 Dallas, Chains, Wolf and Hoxton in the Payday map]]. A prank involves sending one of them to prison.
** The "Buck to School" map in the mobile version of the game has [[Videogame/LifeIsStrange a blue-haired female NPC named Cloé who stands by a wall with a blue butterfly painted on it]].
** The expansion ''[=GoatZ=]'' is named after not only ''VideoGame/DayZ'' but also an infamous ShockSite that we'd rather not go into more detail about.
** ''Waste of Space'' has a slew of them [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpl2ZwT4rq0 just in the trailer]]. "Crowdkicker" as a parody of Kickstarter, a fellow walking in igniting six lightsaber-like blades as like [[Film/TheForceAwakens Kylo Ren's trailer]], "romancing" like ''VideoGame/MassEffect'', [[Franchise/StarTrek a redshirt with the name Spocky on his back while a goldshirt]] gets swarmed by [[{{Franchise/Alien}} facehuggers]] and it ends with the LukeIAmYourFather scene.
** ''Goat MMO Simulator''' has Series/RedDwarf-esque 'fish-with-legs' mermaids. One's even named Miranda.