It is an unexpected impulse that the developers of Goose Goose Duck They have received. This video game brings together up to 16 players who embody the geese around a concept that combines mini-games and investigation. If the Gaggle Studios title released on October 3, 2021, it’s only been a few weeks since the game sparked massive interest, all thanks to a singer from the South Korean boy band BTS, says Polygon.
In November, V (real name Kim Taehyung), one of the band members, performed at Goose Goose Duck and shared their games on the Weverse app, one of the most popular in South Korea. Before a large and committed audience, the title’s statistics skyrocketed.
More than 563,000 simultaneous players
Over the past three months, the SteamDB site has seen a massive influx of new players onto the Steam platform: up from just over 5,000 in October, there were over 563,000 on January 5. A number like Goose Goose Duck joined the top 10 games with the most simultaneous players on the platform. The independent title thus stands next to Grand Theft Auto 5, PUBG: Battlegrounds either Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2.
The success is such that the servers that host the game sessions of Goose Goose Duck didn’t hold up. On January 2, the game’s creators even apologized on Twitter and assured that they would quickly increase their hosting capabilities.
Mechanics similar to Among Us
The game Goose Goose Duck uses the principle popularized during the confinements linked to the Covid-19 by Among us. Here they are not astronauts, but geese who must perform a series of tasks. But impostors hide in the crew to eliminate each member and win the game. The games are marked by phases of vocal exchanges where each one can, depending on her strategy, accuse a player or defend themselves of being an impostor.
The mechanics may be similar, but the copy stands out from the original with its peculiar spirit. First, by putting the players in the shoes of the birds. But also offering many customization elements. In this plane, Goose Goose Duck it is much more advanced. Finally, it is also for its price that the video game stands out. Unlike the 3.99 euros requested by Among us, the Gaggle Studios title is free. It remains to be seen if Goose Goose Duck it will resist the fashion, which quickly regressed to its predecessor.
Source: BFM TV
