

You’re a particularly organized goose with a to-do list directing you toward your single-minded mission of upsetting the lives of everyone around you to the best of your ability.

You’re not just any goose in Untitled Goose Game. It’s about executing one simple idea (you are a goose who is here to wreck things) as well as possible, seeing how far it can be stretched, and committing completely to the bit. Untitled Goose Game isn’t about dazzling you with mechanical complexity, nor is it about over-the-top silliness and sheer anarchy like the similarly animal antics-based Goat Simulator. Anyone picking up the controller for the first time would have all the nuance down in about a minute. You can run, you can honk, you can duck, you can pick things up, and you can flap your wings. Playing Untitled Goose Game is as simple as can be. Enter Untitled Goose Game, which dares to fulfill a fantasy no other game has attempted, and most players probably didn’t even know they had: that of casually but absolutely dismantling a small village bit by bit in the body of a persistent but otherwise unremarkable goose.

Even playing as a wizard slinging spells or a starship pilot fighting back aliens starts to feel ordinary once you’ve done it a few dozen times. But so many stick to mundane fantasies like being a star athlete, a city planner, or someone who’s just really good at shooting guns that none of it feels particularly transformative. One of the great things about video games, it’s often said, is that they let players inhabit different roles and have new experiences that they never could in real life.
