How the fuck is this the first time I’ve gotten to be a mischievous goose? But I think the more pertinent read is that Goose Game is an excellent example of how much incredible white space video games have yet to explore. I think you could probably cobble together a critique here: All the power fantasy with none of the consequences. Untitled Goose Game is a slapstick-stealth-sandbox, where you are a goose let loose on an unsuspecting village. In this cute little game the player will play a naughty goose whos terrorizing a small village. Untitled Goose Game starts off as any game. If the strange naming system devised for both game and developer are anything to go by, we are in for quite for the trip. Goose Game takes the common video game fantasy of being someone else’s bad day and dresses it up with pastoral allure. Untitled Goose Game is a game developed by House House, and released to home computers and Nintendo Switch on September 20, 2019. Today I am reviewing the bizzarely titled Untitled Goose Game by the equally bizarre House House on the Nintendo Switch. You’re never fully out of control, but this goose never stops feeling like a living creature, and that contributes so much charm to the proceedings. As you sprint away from that broom, the goose’s body with twist and turn with the weight of, well, a goose. As you waddle through town, your goose’s head will tilt to stare at objects before you’ve even given thought to them. I recently explained that part of my love of mech games had to do with the feeling of being just barely in control of your on-screen avatar, and it turns out, I feel the same about this damn goose. Your goose is also a lot more fiddly than a normal stealth or puzzle game protagonist, but honestly, I’m here for it. These villagers may have anti-goose signs ready to go, but they’re content to live with this annoying goose rather than take serious action against them. Get caught red beaked, and you’ll be ushered out of the way and every NPC nearby will do their best to set things back to the status quo, giving you another opportunity to go at it. Untitled Goose Game is a game developed by House House, and released to home computers and Nintendo Switch on September 20, 2019. As far as I can tell, there’s no hard failure in Goose Game.

In some ways, the Hitman comparison breaks down at this exact point, in a few different ways: First, the worst that woman with the broom can do is shoo you away. Maybe you need to issue a well timed honk in order to shock someone into making a mistake, but that honk grabs the attention of someone else nearby, and suddenly you’ve got a pair of glasses in your beak and a woman with a broom chasing you out of her shop. These objectives, like making someone repurchase something they already own, are where the game design shines most, as your puzzle solving takes on a hurried and improvisational character. Other, more complex tasks require you (as in Hitman) to pay attention to the ways that items, NPCs, and the environment interact with each other.

The untitled goose game