History YMMV / UntitledGooseGame

** HJÖNK HJÖNK AM GOOSE[[labelnote:Explanation]]LetsPlay/{{Jacksepticeye}}'s catchphrase for the goose in his playthrough of the game.[[/labelnote]]

* GuideDangIt: The task "Make the Groundskeeper wear his sun hat" has puzzled many gamers. Most people who stream the game often end up having to ask viewers how to perform the task, or look it up online. [[note]]You have to either uproot the tulip and snatch the hat when he's replanting the tulip, then run off with the hat until he loses track of you, repeat the "make the Groundskeeper hammer his thumb" task, and snatch away his gardening hat after he falls down.[[/note]]

* GuideDangIt: The task "Make the Groundskeeper wear his sun hat" has puzzled many gamers. Most people who stream the game often end up having to ask viewers how to perform the task, or look it up online. [[note]]You have to repeat the "make the Groundskeeper hammer his thumb" task, and snatch away his gardening hat after he falls down.[[/note]]

* TheWoobie: That poor boy, since many of the second level's objectives focus around being especially cruel to him. The goose can steal his toy plane, force him to buy it back, trip him, swap out his glasses for the wrong pair, and trap him inside a telephone booth. He's so scared of the bird, [[spoiler:you can honk him away during the final level even though he's supposed to stand guard and take back the bell]].

* GuideDangIt: The task "Make the Groundskeeper wear his sun hat" has puzzled many gamers. Most people who stream the game often end up having to ask viewers how to perform the task, or look it up online. [[note]]You have to repeat the "make the Groundskeeper hammer his thumb", and snatch his gardening hat after he falls down.[[/note]]

* SpiritualAdaptation: Of a genre rather than a specific media. As stated by ''WebVideo/TheCompletionist'', the {{Practical Joke}}s and other AmusingInjuries the titular goose subjects the townspeople to, as well as the absence of dialogue and the MickeyMousing piano music, all transposes the comedy style of classic {{Slapstick}} {{Silent Movie}}s of the 1920s.

* GoodBadBugs: Though it's finicky to master, you can clip certain objects or the goose himself through certain walls, closed gates, or insurmountable slopes by fidgeting toward the barrier while repeatedly dropping and picking the item back up. It works the best with the radio from the garden, the bottle from uptown, and of course [[spoiler:the beautiful golden bell. Using this allows you to skip straight to the pub, and to bypass the entire final mission by clipping through the DoorToBefore that connects the miniature village to the outside of the garden, letting you get the bell home in about 30 seconds without ever encountering a villager]].

** The Burly Man/Publican's Husband, due to his [[SuperPersistentPredator sheer]] [[ImplacableMan determination]] to make sure the pub is goose-free. He completely blocks you out of the pub at the beginning of the area, and once he sees you, he won't stop chasing you until you're out or hidden, or unless you manage to untie his shoelaces and make him trip over.

* DemonicSpiders:
** The Burly Man/Publican's Husband, due to being a SuperPersistentPredator. He won't let you into the pub, and once he sees you, he won't stop chasing you until you're out or hidden, or unless you manage to untie his shoelaces and make him trip over.
** The Tidy Neighbor will take and throw away ''everything'' you bring to his garden, greatly hindering your progress. [[KickTheDog He'll even rip off your pretty red bow!]]

* MagnificentBastard: [[FeatheredFiend The goose]] itself is a mischievous prankster out to [[{{Troll}} screw with the neighboring villagers]] as much as it can. Using cleverness and stealth, the goose progresses through the village, outwitting the denizens and accomplishing whatever antics it desires. At the game's climax, the goose steals the village's prized golden bell, causing the entire area to go into lockdown in a last-ditch effort to stop it. Even so, the goose [[TheBadGuyWins evades its opposition]], takes the bell home, and dumps it in a pile of identical bells, showing that [[HistoryRepeats it's done this time and time again]].

* ItsShortSoItSucks: One of the few complaints about the game is that it's far too short, with the main game being only four levels long plus a finale and over in just a few hours, with even the bonus challenges only adding a few more to it.

* SoOkayItsAverage: While the game gained memetic status because of what [[MemeticTroll you can make the goose do]], it only really served to hide [[ItsShortSoItSucks how short the game really is]], and how [[ItsEasySoItSucks straight-forward the puzzles are]], tainting the experience from a mechanical standpoint. That said, the game isn't ''badly designed'', it's just not really doing anything different, even with the addition of the goose. On the flipside, plenty of praise went the graphics and aesthetic, and especially the music used scoring your time in-game.

* WhatAnIdiot: The Tidy Neighbor, when picking up the Messy Neighbor's fancy vase, instead of calling her 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.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is the shopkeeper really oblivious and think the toy airplane is part of her shop inventory, or is she aware it isn't and is deliberately swindling money out of an innocent child trying to get ''his own toy'' back?

* AntiClimaxBoss: [[spoiler: For the FinalBoss, the Groundskeeper you harassed at the beginning of the game stands guard at the gate to his garden to block your progress with the bell. Except he moves away to snatch your bell the instant you approach and from there he functions like any other NPC chasing after you, including getting stunned by the water of the lake. You don't even have to approach him if you exit the garden through the hole in the hedge.]]

** The Tidy Neighbor will and throw away ''everything'' you bring to his garden, greatly hindering your progress. [[KickTheDog He'll even rip off your pretty red bow!]]

** There's also some friendliness with the [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppets]] fandom, [[spoiler:mostly because of the Goose's cameo in their segment of the Video Game Awards 2019.]]

* MemeticBadass: The goose itself. Discussions about the game are usually littered with comments like "Game of the Year/[[{{Pun}} Goose of the Year]]", "Goose for ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Smash Bros]]''", or "R.I.P. ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening Link's Awakening]]''"[[note]]The ''Link's Awakening'' remake came out on the same day[[/note]]. There's been fanart of turning the goose into Geese Howard from ''VideoGame/FatalFury'' not only due to the names but also to their psychopathic tendencies. The Goose and the gameplay of its title have been compared to ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'' of all games due to the ability to complete your objectives as stealthily as you want, at the expense of however many people you deem necessary.

** [[VideoGame/FatalFury Goose Howard/Untitled Geese Game]][[labelnote:Explanation]]With Geese Howard being a FountainOfMemes, there are many fanworks that attributed whatever memes Geese had to the goose. Chiefly including his many {{Leitmotif}}, his voice clips and especially his many many Engrish phrases. Take your pick from "PREDICTABO!" or just anything else that came out from Geese's mouth, apply that to the goose.[[/labelnote]]

* SpiritualAdaptation: Of a genre rather than a specific media. As stated by ''WebVideo/TheCompletionist'', the {{Practical Joke}}s and other AmusingInjuries the titular goose subject the townspeople to, as well as the absence of dialogue and the MickeyMousing piano music, all transposes the comedy style of classic {{Slapstick}} {{Silent Movie}}s of the 1920s.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is the shopkeeper really oblivious and think the toy airplane is part of her shop inventory, or is she aware it isn't and is deliberately swindling money out of an innocent child trying to get ''his own toy'' back.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The playful piano that serves as the game's background music does a great job of setting the light-hearted, mischievous mood.

** "Oh dear. Two horrible geese!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin; the August 2020 Nintendo Indie World presentation ended with a trailer for the game revealing two-player co-op. Cue commentators making ''numerous'' gags about this, and even repurposing old jokes/memes such as [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} "Prepare for trouble, and make it double!"]] and [[Film/ThePhantomMenace "This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them!"]][[/labelnote]]

** The Tidy Neighbor will and throw away ''everything'' you bring to his garden, greatly hindering your progress.

* DemonicSpiders: The Burly Man/Publican's Husband, due to being a SuperPersistentPredator. He won't let you into the pub, and once he sees you, he won't stop chasing you until you're out or hidden, or unless you manage to untie his shoelaces and make him trip over.

* ItsShortSoItSucks: One of the few complaints about the game is that it's far too short, with the main game being only four levels long and over in just a few hours, with even the bonus challenges only adding a few more to it.