If the answer is ‘yes’ then I have just the game for you. You can still play it if the answer is ‘no’, but you’ll probably not have as much fun. It’ll be like making cookies without eating raw dough: not illegal, better for your health and you can show the world that you’re just a big stick in the mud.
Welcome to Untitled Goose Game.
Never judge a book by its cover but do judge a game by its title. For example: Assassin’s Creed? About assassins. Uncharted? About an uncharted territory. Witcher? About witchers. Untitled Goose Game? A game without a title (barring Untitled Goose Game) that is about gooses. The operative word being gooses. Specifically the first five letters. For those of you who don’t know, real life geese are the spawns of Satan but with far more teeth than you’d expect. (see Fig.02 and Fig.03)
Fig.02
Fig.03
The game goose, the protagoose if you will (and you must), doesn’t seem to have teeth and has no discernible personality of its own; it is a strangely constructed mask you (the player) wear as you travel around an English village and wreak havoc, get up to shenanigans, be a bother. You get the idea. You are given a list of objectives and you must complete them. Examples of these objectives include dropping a bucket on a farmers head, stealing keys and terrorising villagers. Any additional buffoonery you engage in is not necessary to complete the game but it does add to the experience and ensures you’re in character. And why not take up the chance to be horrible without consequences if you get it. All in all, I give it a solid thumbs up.
Other Info
- What can you play it on? Microsoft Windows, macOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
- How can you play it? Go here - https://goose.game/
- Learning curve? Slightly steep. You’ll get out of breath but no asthma attacks.
- Is it fun? Yes.