The free-to-play recreation’s recognition has grown steadily since V from the Okay-pop group BTS — actual identify Kim Tae-hyung — performed it on a reside stream. He started streaming “Goose Goose Duck” on Nov. 27 on the social networking app Weverse, the place he’s additionally performed different common multiplayer titles like the unique “Amongst Us” and “Fall Guys.” (Weverse is owned and operated by Hybe, the corporate behind BTS.)
In “Goose Goose Duck,” gamers tackle the position of geese and should work collectively to suss out the dastardly geese hiding amongst them in disguise. It shares an analogous premise and 2D visuals of “Amongst Us,” however with a extra in depth listing of recreation modes and attainable roles for gamers, together with different birds just like the Dodo, who wins by getting voted off, or the Vulture, who wins by consuming the stays of their less-fortunate crewmates.
“Goose Goose Duck” first launched in October 2021 after a six-month early entry interval, and on common noticed a couple of thousand gamers every day, primarily based on knowledge from Steam Charts. After Tae-hyung started streaming it, the variety of concurrent gamers shot up virtually instantly, from round 15,000 firstly of November to 160,000 by the tip.
In response to business analyst Daniel Ahmad, “Goose Goose Duck” has been going viral in Asian markets over the previous month, notably in China and Korea. “We’ve been monitoring the title since late November when it first began gaining traction. Attention-grabbing to see it’s solely actually beginning to obtain consideration globally now,” he mentioned in a Thursday tweet.
With that highlight has comes its fair proportion of points. Earlier this week, the flood of recent gamers briefly overwhelmed developer Gaggle Studios’ servers, leading to an outage.
“We admire all of the love and help, we anticipated a big improve in gamers however not like this,” the indie studio wrote in an replace on Steam. “250k improve of our already huge participant base was an excessive amount of. We’re engaged on rising capability as quick as we are able to and can maintain everybody up to date. We apologize for the inconvenience, we’re all working laborious to ensure everybody can play.”
The outpouring is indicative of the sheer recognition of BTS, one of many world’s most profitable recording artists with tens of thousands and thousands of followers. The group, which is at present on hiatus, has beforehand made waves within the video games business with its collaborations with common titles “Cookie Run: Kingdom” and “Fortnite.”
