Untitled Goose Game Reviews

It’s clear that Untitled Goose Game is a labour of love from House House. It’s an entertaining honk-filled romp that’s guaranteed to satisfy anyone’s wanting to become a goose. Your first playthrough will no doubt be your best due to the restrictive design, but the hidden objectives and unique environments offer plenty of reason to explore and experiment with its charming world and characters. There’s never been a better way to simulate being a goose.

Untitled Goose Game encapsulates the pleasure in poking fun without ever turning nasty. And you're a goose, which is great.

Untitled Goose Game is addictive, hilarious and slightly nihilistic. A great Switch (and PC) game.

Ever since the game’s initial release back in September, I was largely just exposed to the meme culture built around the game. I had seen some footage here and there to grasp the concept of the game, but it wasn’t until the title saw its release on Game Pass that I was able to get hands on.

Untitled Goose Game is an easy-going game that is super simplistic but also super fun. The slapstick humor is great and the objectives shouldn’t cause anyone much frustration. If you’re looking for a cute, easy, but fun game that’ll only take you a few hours to finish, check out Untitled Goose Game.

The game will likely take you less than a couple of hours to complete, but there is some replay-ability here thanks to some additional objectives that can be discovered should you wish to experiment with your new found goose skills. Either way, the overarching objective is to be an absolute arsehole, to the entire village, all culminating in a neat little twist at the end that underlines that geese – well, geese will act like this everyday given the chance.

A neat flourish is the music: There’s not a lot of it and when something shows up, it’s as a cue that something’s happening. You stole something, you got caught, someone’s chasing you, all these merit a little flourish of the soundtrack. Otherwise, it’s all ambient sounds and, of course, triumphant honking.

Let me start off this review by saying the following: Untitled Goose Game is a very, very, very dumb game. If you thought that this was negative criticism, you’re wrong, as I’m 500% sure that this was the developer’s intention from the start. It’s not a pretentious indie that tries to take itself seriously with a supposedly deep story and biting off more than it can chew. In fact, it’s the complete opposite: it’s a game in which you’re a goose and your objective is to annoy peop...

Untitled Goose Game proves that you don’t need complex mechanics or an involved story to make a great game. It takes a simple premise — you’re a goose here to make trouble — and spins it out into a short but extremely satisfying slapstick journey. Untitled Goose Game is effortlessly funny, succeeding as much on its physical comedy as its clever puzzles.

Untitled Goose Game is a charming, simple title that lets you live out the fantasy of being a jerk goose. From the fowl’s lovely waddle to stealing slippers or pulling chairs from under people as they try to sit down, its simplicity carries it well over its short run-time. The small village has quite a bit of activity going on within its small area, always giving you something to do, while more optional tasks pop up once you’ve “beaten” it the first time. Its idea might not have much juice left after a few hours, but for what it offers, Untitled Goose Game is a wonderful, silly, and surprisingly relaxing escapade.

Untitled Goose Game is a stealth puzzle game developed by House House in Melbourne and published by Panic. In it, you are a goose causing mischief in an otherwise peaceful village. Set in a nondescript and quaint little town, it’s your job to cause mayhem and make sure the villagers have an awful day.

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Completely charming and wonderfully presented stealth puzzle game, that turns a horrible goose into one of the year’s most endearing video game stars.

Renegade Shepard’s got nothing on you in Untitled Goose Game

At the end of the day – the long hard day of being a naughty little goose – Untitled Goose Game is something truly unique and special. It’s a beautifully clean and simple puzzle game which will have you howling with delight, both when you play it through for the first time, and when you pass the controller to your partner saying, “You absolutely need to play this game where you're a naughty little goose…”

Who knew a game about a goose could be so entertaining? Untitled Goose Game is one of those games that sets out to accomplish a very specific goal, and it does so with flying colors. It's focused and charming although a little on the short side. It also has a…

Getting in trouble and annoying humans has never been so much fun, with Untitled Goose Game providing a guilt-free, honking-ly good time that is sure to make you laugh both happily and evilly.

Geese are the chaotic evil of birds. Their existence revolves around being annoyed at anything standing within a 20-feet radius of their awful, hissing faces, treating every nearby living thing as though its presence is a personal affront. As such, they make for an unlikely video game protagonist. Yet that’s exactly what developer House House has attempted with Untitled Goose Game, an unlikely stealth game featuring nature’s greatest anti-hero as its star.

But there’s little precedence for Untitled Goose Game. In each stage, I can sense the creators stretching, with great effort, to find new, fun things that don’t fall on old habits. The magic, when it really materializes, is punctuating a perfectly executed stealth maneuver with a quack.

The way Untitled Goose Game’s goose moves, I think, is what makes it so endearing. Its self-assured waddle. The way it leans its feathered neck forward, with an almost innocent inquisitiveness, before turning on some poor guy’s sprinklers and drenching him. How it flaps and flutters after its plans have been thwarted by a human, only to immediately compose itself and clap back with a look that says, “Actually, I’m the one who should be feeling offended after you took back the priceless vase I stole from you and was planning to shatter into a million pieces.” The goose is a piece of shit. I love the goose.

Video games have made me a god, a superhero, and a savior of planets, but rarely have I felt more powerful than in Untitled Goose Game. Being given control of this feathered menace and armed with a checklist of hilarious, dickish tasks to complete is some of the most fun I’ve had with a game all year. My only real complaint is its fairly short runtime – I would have gladly spent hours longer goosing around. But even still, the charming design of its world and the clever challenges within it had me laughing, smiling, and eagerly honking the whole way through.

I'm somewhat reluctant to stick by all of my larger criticisms because perhaps the game that I was expecting and wanting simply wasn't the same game that House House was aiming to make. But after being presented with all of these tools in a fun world, I just kept imagining how much farther and funnier this concept could have gone. I'm always thankful for relatively shorter game experiences, but I'd love to see more goose hijinx from these developers in the future. Take the openness of Goat Simulator but remove the memes, take the versatility of Hitman but remove the murder, and absolutely keep the fun aesthetic and sounds of Untitled Goose Game that made it unique.

Making mischief can be fun, but imagine doing it as one of nature’s biggest pests: a goose. Untitled Goose Game is a simple-but-amusing experience about being a goose and harassing unsuspecting humans. While there’s something charming and delightful about that, the game shows all its cards upfront and never reaches outside the initial thrill of the premise. Untitled Goose Game is a lighthearted jaunt that I’m glad I took, but it left me without much of a lasting impression as the credits rolled.