If you fire up Steam early in the day, you may notice a surprising new entry near the top of the platform’s most-played list. goose gooseThe free-to-play social reasoning game was the third most-played game on Steam on Thursday, peaking at 563,677 players, pushing out Steam favorites. PUBG: Battlegrounds, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2When apex legends.
what drove it goose goosesurge in popularity? Gaggle.fun, the developer behind goose gooseOf course, we can thank South Korean pop giants BTS.
goose goose was first released in October 2021 after entering Early Access six months ago. This social reasoning game, in which players assume the role of a goose and try to exterminate ducks (or other birds) in disguise, typically has thousands of players each day, and last February he had 21,362. peaked at 10 players. Data from Steamcharts.
But in November of last year, BTS’s V (real name Kim Taehyung) started streaming. goose goose To fans through social apps and web platform Weverse. (he also streamed Fall Guys When in us. ) almost immediately, goose goose In mid-November, the maximum number of concurrent players was around 6,000, but a month later, the maximum number of concurrent players was around 130,000. The game’s peak player count tripled by the end of the year.
Its success has been overwhelming for Gaggle.fun. goose goose The January 2nd server outage was due to a large influx of new players.
“Thank you for all the love and support,” the developer said in a Steam post. His 250k increase for an already large player base was too much. We are working on increasing capacity as soon as possible and will keep everyone updated. ”
goose goose‘s largest player base, unsurprisingly, seems to be concentrated in Asia.based on Data from steam charts, South Korea sees a surge in player numbers in the evening, while North America sees much fewer during the day.upon convulsionsthe game enjoys a modest audience, with only a few hundred viewers at the time of this writing.
while doing so goose goose could have seemed to draw gameplay and aesthetic direction from in usthe game seems to follow the lead in a different way. By becoming an “overnight” success long after its debut, thanks to popular streamers. I hope the band’s hitmakers help other obscure games find new audiences.