The best game to play with family
Untitled Goose Game, you are a horrible goose
- Critic score
- 80
- Player rating
- 4.5/5
- Main story
- 3 h
- Genre
- Puzzle, Family, Action
“It's a lovely day in the village, and you are a horrible goose.” The game delivers exactly that promise, in three hours, and is one of the most approachable things in the catalog.
You are a goose let loose in an English village that did nothing to deserve you. The game calls itself a slapstick-stealth-sandbox: you make your way through back gardens, the high street and the village green, setting up pranks, stealing hats, honking a great deal and generally ruining everyone's day.
The structure is a list of mischief. Each area offers a set of objectives noted on a clipboard — make a bust wear a hat, force a man to buy back his own belongings, get someone to fall in the lake. There is never a single solution: you experiment, you watch the villagers' habits, you pull an object at the wrong moment.
The controls are deliberately minimal: run, lower your head, grab an object with your beak, and a button dedicated to honking. That last one usually achieves nothing useful, which is precisely why you press it constantly.
The staging does the rest. The village is drawn in flat colours, in an almost architectural style, and the piano accompanying the action responds to what you do — racing when you are chased, cutting out when you stand still. That detail turns every prank into a small comic routine.
Three hours for the main list. This is the game you hand to someone who does not play: no prior knowledge required, and the objective is understood immediately.