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<b>BEST CORE CONCEPT OF THE DECADE:
Untitled Goose Game
Released on 9/20/2019
Switch</b>
(written in 2020)

Few games have ever so clearly known their core concept for a game and then successfully explored the truths within that concept.

Their tagline is "It's a lovely day in the village, and you are a horrible goose." It is all you need to know.

It is a well-known story in my family about the time a goose attacked me as probably a six year old kid. Years later, my nephew and niece made a game with each other called Uncle and the Goose, and they just swatted their arms at each other. I'm glad neither of them bit each other, <I>unlike that goose from years ago..</I>

Anyway, House House figured out that universal fact about these geese-demons and then made a neat game, though it's hard to take descriptions of UGG seriously. Wikipedia calls it a puzzle-stealth game...and while that is correct, I can't read that with a straight face.

There's a lot to laugh at here, but I think the funniest aspect is that they made a regular goose but also recognized this false perception that geese have elegance, so they arm the goose-terrorist you play as with a playful piano soundtrack and cursive-written checklist of trouble to cause. This development team gooses.

The game's a little overpriced at $20, but while you wait for a sale the trailer is immediately clear if you want this game or not.

https://youtu.be/9LL2AtHo1gk

This is more Octodad than Goat Simulator, but that too doesn't really describe it well -- this isn't a ragdoll physics-type of comedy. You don't have wacky waving limbs or a super-elastic tongue. You're a goose, and your powers are limiting to honking and stealing.

Geese are the worst.

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