She came, saw and honked – How Untitled Goose Game conquered the internet

The new indie game Untitled Goose Game has quickly gained great popularity and has become a meme on the internet.

What is Untitled Goose Game? It is a beautiful morning in a village and you are a terrible goose.

In the small indie game that was released on September 20 for PC, Mac, and Nintendo Switch, it revolves around a goose causing chaos with surgical precision in an English village. The game combines the genres of puzzle and stealth.

Throughout the game, you must complete various small tasks on your list. You steal items from the villagers, make them trip and fall on their backs, lock them in garages and phone booths, and generally annoy them thoroughly.

Untitled Goose Game comes from the Australian studio House House, which consists of only 4 people. The quirky title of the game was originally intended as a placeholder, which was later to be replaced by a proper title. However, it stuck.

How has Untitled Goose Game been received? After the reveal trailer for Untitled Goose Game went viral on social media, it became clear that the small indie game would receive a lot of attention after its release.

Gaming media that reviewed the game particularly highlighted the harmless humor and charm of the game. The humor came from the “slapstick” genre, which is actually as old as the world itself. But the fact that you are running around in the game as a goose causing chaos gives the game its own spin.

Our colleagues from GameStar also found that Untitled Goose Game is a highlight among indie games, even though they believe that the game could have been a bit longer.

Here are some ratings:

• Destructoid: 8.5/10
• IGN: 8/10
• Nintendolife: 8/10
• Gamepot: 8/10
• Metacritic: Switch – 81/100, PC – 78/100
• USgamer: 4/5 stars

While the media considered the game a nice and amusing distraction, it exploded in the gaming community and there was a flood of memes.

The goose is everywhere. Also in your favorite games

These jokes are now circulating about Untitled Goose Game: Within a short time after the release of the indie game, fan arts and references to the game appeared on social media and various gaming subreddits.

The large gaming subreddit r/gaming, a collecting place for gaming memes, was flooded with jokes about the goose:

It went so far that the admins decided to change the name to “Untitled Gaming Subreddit” and the banner for a week to join in on the hype of the game.

This trend of renaming also spread to social media, such as Twitter, where “Untitled” accounts sprang up everywhere.

In the subreddit of Magic: The Gathering Arena, players demanded that the sound of the new “Guilded Goose” card be changed from the falcon-like sound to the annoying and unbearable “Honk”, which is a clear reference to Untitled Goose Game.

In other subreddits and on Twitter, numerous fan arts featuring Untitled Goose Game appeared. They often depicted the goose stealing something from the NPCs of their own game. Like for example the keyblade of Sora from Kingdom Hearts. Here are some examples of that:

Also popular internet memes were quickly adapted to the goose and released in the graphic style of Untitled Goose Game. For example, the meme with the two women and the cat, which has been shared a lot in recent months.

The goose has not only conquered the gardens of the small village for a short time but also the internet and especially the hearts of the players. And personally, I would love to see a sequel titled “Untitled Geese Game” with a co-op mode.

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