Upon wanting on the social deduction recreation Goose Goose Duck for the primary time, comparisons to Amongst Us will seemingly instantly come to thoughts. And funnily sufficient, the similarities go nicely past its gameplay, visuals, and premise. Very similar to how Amongst Us exploded in reputation nicely after its launch, Goose Goose Duck has dominated the Steam charts just lately — although it got here out in 2021. In actual fact, in accordance with SteamDB, Goose Goose Duck has reached an all-time peak of 563,677 concurrent gamers as of this writing, which truly exceeds Amongst Us‘ all-time peak of 447,476 gamers. As noticed by PC Gamer, this surge occurred after Kim Tae-hyung, a member of the favored Okay-pop group BTS, streamed the sport.
Based on a latest Steam information replace, this huge spike within the participant depend led to a server outage earlier this week. Developer Gaggle Studios made certain to thank gamers for the assist, saying that though it anticipated a major increase to the participant depend, it didn’t anticipate that it will develop this massive.
The developer said that Goose Goose Duck’s participant depend particularly went up by round 250,000, virtually necessitating a rise within the server capability. A tweet posted shortly after the information replace confirmed that the servers went again on-line, with the builders guaranteeing that they are going to “work on server stability and enlargement.”
What’s Goose Goose Duck all about?
Goose Goose Duck‘s gameplay loop sees a bunch of participant geese collaborating to finish sure targets. Gamers have to stay vigilant, although, as each crew may have a sole imposter duck aiming to kill everybody after they least anticipate it. That is the place the sport’s social deduction facet comes into play, because the geese want to determine who the duck is and put an finish to their nefarious scheme.
If Goose Goose Duck appears fascinating to you, then it received’t take a lot effort in any respect to get into the sport. You possibly can test it out on Steam without cost, though it does include just a few microtransactions for beauty gadgets.
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