History VideoGame / UntitledGooseGame

HONK HONK!

* AlternateHistory: In response to player comments that the villagers were probably all supporters of Brexit, House House joked on Twitter that the game takes place in a timeline where a goose chased Margaret Thatcher out of office, which spurred a Bennite revolution that lead to the irreparable decline of the Tory party; thus, all of the villagers are peaceful Marxists. This is all PlayedForLaughs and ''[[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment should not be taken seriously]]''.
** A minor case, but one of the TV sets in the TV shop displays what looks like a UsefulNotes/{{Teletext}} page; teletext was phased out with the UK analogue TV switchoff in 2012 (and more recently, the BBC announced their successor service, BBC Red Button, would be discontinued to a lack of usage in comparison to the internet and apps).

* AcrophobicBird: Despite being a goose, an animal capable of flight, the goose is unable to fly, despite the fact that it would make many tasks much easier, [[spoiler: such as bringing the bell back home.]]

** Breakable items will respawn, meaning you can't lock yourself out of an objective like making someone else break the vase or throw a pint glass in the canal by accidently breaking these items. In the former case the vase will be re-assembled if you wait long enough. In the later case the publican will fetch another pint glass from a cart full of dishes. This also saves you from having to reset and lose any other set ups you might've had.

* AssholeVictim: It's hard to feel too sorry for the male neighbor when you see how he reacts to finding his neighbor's pot in his yard. Not to mention, his tendency to take ''any'' garbage you drop in his yard, even if it doesn't belong to her, and toss it into her property makes it clear he's an asshole of a neighbor who's [[LaserGuidedKarma overdue for a good goosing]].

* CosmeticAward: For completing everything on the to-do list, you get [[spoiler: a crown, which you can wear by going to any villager and getting them to put it on you.]]

* ForTheEvulz: The majority of the objectives have nothing to do with the goose's goal of [[spoiler:stealing the bell]]. However, the developers have stated that you shouldn't ascribe human-like morality or higher functioning to the goose's actions: it does the things it does because it is a goose.

** The staff members working at the fourth level's pub will shoo you out if you get spotted. If you hide from the publican and her husband by going under the tables however, they'll eventually give up the chase even though they might have cornered you.

* HundredPercentCompletion: There's a special checklist item for completing all ''other'' assigned tasks, shown only after you beat the game.

* MarketBasedTitle: Ironically, the official Japanese version ''does'' have a title, or more specifically a [[TheForeignSubtitle subtitle]] (''Untitled Goose Game ~Mischievous Goose is Comin’~'').

* NotCompletelyUseless: Though spreading your wings is fun, it's effectively just a TauntButton that has no real effect on anything in the game. Late in the game however it's actually a required action to be awarded a flower.

* ShoutOut: One of the [=TVs=] in the TV shop is showing a small character rolling a ball about most of its size, a shoutout to [[VideoGame/KatamariDamacy a very different game where the aim is to ruin lots of peoples' lives at once]].

* {{Troll}}: The whole point of the game. As the goose, your objective is to complete the various tasks on your checklist -- all of which are ways of harassing humans, because you are a goose.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Practically custom-built for it. The entire point of the game is to be a "horrible goose" and terrorize the village by stealing food, playing keep away with the things they need, startle them with loud honks, and just being a nuisance in general.

* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"steal the beautiful miniature golden bell"]] ...[[spoiler:"and take it all the way back home"]]

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** A minor case, but one of the TVs in the TV shop displays what looks like a UsefulNotes/{{Teletext}} page; teletext was phased out with the UK analogue TV switchoff in 2012 (and more recently, the BBC announced their successor service, BBC Red Button, would be discontinued to a lack of usage in comparison to the internet and apps).

* AlternateHistory: House House joked on Twitter that the game takes place in a timeline where a goose chased Margaret Thatcher out of office, which spurred a Bennite revolution that lead to the irreparable decline of the Tory party. This is all PlayedForLaughs and ''[[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment should not be taken seriously]]''.

* ExcusePlot: The whole game is a thinly-veiled excuse to [[ForTheEvulz be a creatively obnoxious goose]], and it doesn't even tell you the main objective--[[spoiler:stealing the golden bell]]--until near the end. And why the goose wants to do ''that'' never gets explained, either.

* ForTheEvulz: The majority of the objectives have nothing to do with the goose's goal of [[spoiler:stealing the bell]]. The goose simply enjoys the villagers' suffering. [[spoiler:Most of them, however, are necessary to get the villagers to open the way forwards, such as the groundskeeper hammering his hand causing him to open the garden door behind him, or the artist removing part of the fence when she goes to draw her "No Goose Allowed" sign]].

* KarmaHoudini: The goose never receives any real punishment for his misdeeds.

* MarketBasedTitle: Ironically, the official Japanese version ''does'' have a title, or more specifically a [[TheForeignSubtitle subtitle]] (''Untitled Goose Game ~Here Comes a Horrible Goose!~'').

* PokeThePoodle: Steal or hide random objects to make their owners have to chase you or look for them. Break a few things, either directly or indirectly (like a broom or a fancy vase). Startle people, either by honking directly at them or by using more...creative methods. About the worst the goose will do is frighten a child into hiding from it, and cause a couple of the humans AmusingInjuries.

* {{Troll}}: The whole point of the game. As the goose, your objective is to complete the various tasks on your checklist -- all of which are ways of harassing everybody else for seemingly no reason. [[spoiler:It's all so the goose can get a shiny golden bell.]]

* VillainProtagonist: The goose [[VillainyFreeVillain isn't especially dangerous]], but the goal is to make a pest of yourself in an innocent, unsuspecting village.

* WouldHurtAChild: The goose has no qualms about harassing or causing injuries to children. In the game proper, there is only one juvenile villager the goose comes across in the second level. Being the only person in the game who's actually afraid of the goose makes him prime fodder to be messed with.

** By using a glitch to skip the first two areas of the game, you can still obtain objectives for the first area [[spoiler:during the bell chase]], getting into the garden via the back door and getting the groundskeeper wet when he follows you to the river.

** One item in the game is a harmonica- if you press the key that would normally make you "honk" while the harmonica is held in your beak, it produces the sound that blowing forcefully into a harmonica would instead.

* AssholeVictim: It's hard to feel too sorry for the male neighbor when you see how he reacts to finding his neighbor's pot in his yard. Not to mention, his tendency to take ''any'' garbage you drop in his yard, even if it doesn't belong to her, and toss it into her property makes it clear he's an asshole of a neighbor whose [[LaserGuidedKarma overdue for a good goosing]].

* AssholeVictim: It's hard to feel too sorry for the male neighbor when you see how he reacts to finding his neighbor's pot in his yard.

* SoMuchForStealth: Much of the game has you being very sneaky to accomplish the things on your checklist, so that's pretty much done away with at the end of the game [[spoiler:when you have to carry a noisy bell all the way back to the starting point]]. Many quests where you're ''supposed'' to use stealth can instead be accomplished by, for example, repeatedly snatching an item back from a human every time they take it from you.

* WouldHurtAChild: The goose has no qualms about harassing or causing injuries to children. In the game proper, there is only one juvenile villager the goose comes across in the second level.

''Untitled Goose Game'' is a StealthBasedGame for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and PC by House House, creator of ''Push Me Pull You''. You play as a goose in a small unnamed English village, who goes through the day doing various goose things and being a general nuisance to the humans nearby.

* FetchQuest: Each level features a task where the goose must bring several items to a specific location, such as food to a picnic basket. [[spoiler:The entire game is actually one giant FetchQuest, when it's shown the goose's goal is to steal the bell and throw it in a ditch in its home.]]

** The humans generally have [[ForgetfulJones goldfish memory]], only knowing what they're currently doing. For the "get dressed up with a ribbon" challenge, you can [[spoiler:watch as the woman stares at the empty space where her goose statue should be, then walk up and stand there when she turns around to pick up the ribbon--she'll turn right back around and put the ribbon on you, forgetting that she noticed the statue was gone a few seconds ago.]] On the flip side, they perfectly remember every object you moved, prioritizing putting them back where they were over almost everything else. It's possible to get them stuck in an endless loop this way... and just as easy to get them out of it again.
** The humans are also bad at actually doing anything about the goose; the worst they'll do is shoo/chase you away from certain places and take back things you've stolen, but outside of that they have no issues with the goose, who may have already been an absolute pest to them, wandering around their property.

* {{Recursion}}: [[spoiler: The model village in the final section of the game has its own model village.]]

* CloudCuckoolander: Debatably the goose. It may be a dumb animal, but it's a dumb animal with a checklist, and the tasks that aren't PokeThePoodle are ''decidedly'' this (have a mock picnic? Fill out a shopping basket at the outdoor shop? Impersonate a goose sculpture to get dressed up with a fancy bow, for no reason at all?)

* Acrophobic Bird: Despite being a goose, an animal capable of flight, the goose is unable to fly, despite the fact that it would make many tasks much easier, [[spoiler: such as bringing the bell back home.]]

* CloudCuckoolander: Debatably the goose. It may be a dumb animal, but it's a dumb animal with a checklist, and the tasks that aren't PokeThePoodle are ''decidely'' this (have a mock picnic? Fill out a shopping basket at the outdoor shop? Impersonate a goose sculpture to get dressed up with a fancy bow, for no reason at all?)

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Practically custom-built for it. The entire point of the game is to be a "horrible goose" and terrorize the village by stealing food, playing keepaway with the things they need, startle them with loud honks, and just being a nuisance in general.

* TooDumbToLive: The Male Neighbor, when picking up the Female Neighbor's fancy vase, instead of calling it over and handing it back to her, will ''toss the vase over the fence'', breaking it. The Female Neighbor is ''not happy,'' and he doesn't learn his lesson, throwing the repaired vase back over the fence if he sees it in his backyard again.
** The deliveryperson for the pub won't bother checking the box before taking it inside. Even though it may be heavier than before. Even though it may inexplicably honk once or twice. Even though ''they may have delivered that same box three times already''.

** The deliveryman for the pub won't bother checking the box before taking it inside. Even though it may be heavier than before. Even though it may inexplicably honk once or twice. Even though ''he may have delivered that same box three times already''.

* AmusingInjuries: Many of the goose's goals involve getting the humans to hurt themselves, such as making the gardener hit his thumb with a mallet.

* MistakenForThief: While the exact conversation isn't heard or written, the confrontation between the boy and the shopkeeper over the [[spoiler:toy plane]] suggests this is what happens. [[spoiler:The same happens with the gardener and his trowel.]]

* CloudCuckoolander: Debatably the goose. It may be a dumb animal, but it's a dumb animal with a checklist, and the
tasks that aren't PokeThePoodle are ''decidely'' this (have a mock picnic? Fill out a shopping basket at the outdoor shop? Impersonate a goose sculpture to get dressed up with a fancy bow, for no reason at all?)

** The humans generally have [[ForgetfulJones goldfish memory]], only knowing what they're currently doing. For the "get dressed up with a ribbon" challenge, you can [[spoiler:watch as the woman stares at the empty space where her goose statue should be, then walk up and stand there when she turns around to pick up the ribbon--she'll turn right back around and put the ribbon on you, forgetting that she noticed the statue was gone a few seconds ago.]]

* TreeCover: The goose is small enough to be completely covered by the hedges.