Untitled Goose Game

What's in it

Who can reach your kid

What it is

You play a domestic goose loose in a tidy English village, working through a checklist of pranks: honking at people, waddling off with their belongings, and nudging objects around to trick the villagers into small mishaps. It is a stealth-puzzle game built entirely on comic mischief — the goose harasses a gardener, a shopkeeper and other townsfolk, but no one is hurt and nothing violent, sexual, frightening or otherwise mature is depicted. Play is short and slapstick, set to gentle piano music, and the only chaos on offer is a bird making a nuisance of itself. There is a local two-player co-op mode where a second person controls a second goose on the same machine; there is no online chat, no user-generated content, and nothing to buy.

How it's framed

The game frames its mischief as harmless comedy. Its own developers deliberately stripped out violence so the pranks land as jokes rather than harm, and the tone throughout is light and storybook-gentle — the goose's misbehaviour has no lasting consequence and is played purely for laughs.

Details

Developer

House House

Publisher

Panic

Released

Sep 23, 2020

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