Goose goose duck– a social deduction game populated by lazy geese with apparently customizable farts– tears up the Steam charts. The game has been out since 2021 and was released in the wake of Between us‘ Crewmate Shaped Shadowbut his recent surge in popularity isn’t due to an inexplicable renewed interest in playing detective, it’s in K-pop.
At least that’s how it seems to have started. The game, which involves completing a mission with teammates while trying to unmask a traitor (or as one Steam review puts it, “Amongoose”), has made it onto BTS Member Kim “V” Tae-hyung‘s weaver streamwhere he plays multiplayer games like fall guys with fans, back in November.
Weverse is Korean entertainment company Hybe Corporation’s version of Patreon, essentially a spot so fans can interact with BTS and each other after them pay a membership fee
“In 10 days after the airing of V, Goose goose duckThe number of users of has increased fivefold and more than tenfold about two weeks later,” a translation of it game meka article says.
But Tae-hyung didn’t stream Goose goose duck since November, and the game is growing in popularity. On January 2nd, massive player demand forced the developers to improve server capacity. The game too recently hit its all-time high of 563,677 concurrent players on January 5, SteamDB shows. In comparison, Between us reached its peak 447,476 concurrent players two years ago. And that despite Tae-hyung Streaming this game in November, to. So maybe K-pop doesn’t have the golden touch. Maybe people really love geese.