Untitled Goose Game
About the Game
Untitled Goose Game gives you a quiet English village and an extremely unreasonable job: be the goose that makes everyone’s day worse. A gardener wants to work, a shopkeeper wants to mind the shop, and you have a growing list of small acts of mischief to carry out around them. The comedy comes from setting up a situation, watching a human react and noticing the opening that reaction creates.
There is no need to overpower anyone. A stolen object, a well-timed honk or a distraction in the right place can achieve much more. The compact village becomes a puzzle box as you learn its routines and discover how its objects fit into your plans.
Gameplay & Experience
You walk, run, crouch, flap, honk and grab things with your beak. Those simple actions combine into surprisingly elaborate solutions: lure someone away, move the item they are protecting, then slip through while they deal with the interruption. Objectives leave room for experimentation, and failed schemes often produce a good visual joke before you try another approach.
Observe, distract, improvise
Villagers respond to missing possessions and unexpected disturbances. Learning what attracts their attention helps you turn everyday objects into tools for the next task.
Two geese are worse than one
The free cooperative update adds a second goose for local two-player play. One player can distract a villager while the other completes a task, or both can simply create chaos together.
A distinctive comic presentation
Clean shapes, expressive animation and reactive piano music keep the scene readable without burying it in explanation. The humor grows out of what you do and how the village tries to recover.
Standout Features
- Open-ended mischief in connected village areas
- Object manipulation, stealth and distraction puzzles
- Local two-player cooperative play with the update
- Expressive animation and reactive piano accompaniment
Quick Specs
| Platform | PlayStation 4 |
|---|---|
| North American Release | 2020-09-29 |
| Publisher | Panic / iam8bit (Skybound physical release) |
| Developer | House House |
| Genre | Puzzle / Stealth / Sandbox |
| ESRB | Everyone |
| Physical Media | PlayStation 4 Blu-ray Disc |
| Players | 1–2 local |
| Average Critic Rating | 84% — 5 exact-platform critic ratings, MobyGames |