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06/01/2023, 06:20
Timothy “Timaugustin” Augustine
Picture: Gaggle Studios
Goose Goose Duck has already surpassed the utmost variety of concurrent gamers for Amongst Us by over 100 thousand gamers on Steam.
An Amongst Us-like social dishonest recreation known as Goose Goose Duck rocketed to the highest of the Steam charts this week, hitting a peak concurrent participant rely of 563,677 gamers. The sport has managed to surpass the all-time file of Amongst Us by over 100 thousand gamers, regardless of being roughly the identical recreation.
Goose Goose Duck’s success story can be strikingly just like that of Amongst Us. Amongst Us skilled a surge in reputation in 2020 when streamers started taking part in the sport throughout lockdown. Alternatively, Goose Goose Duck made it to Steam’s most performed charts in November when BTS member Kim Taehyung streamed the sport. Since then, the sport has grown in reputation in China, and one solely has to see that its Steam dialogue threads are all in Chinese language for clear proof.
In the event you’re not conversant in Goose Goose Duck, we would not blame you, however that might not be the case for lengthy. Like Amongst Us, the sport assigns gamers (pleasant geese) the situation of impostors (killer geese) hiding inside their groups. Nonetheless, developer Gaggle Studios has been doing an important job including new content material and steadiness updates to the sport, so it is easy to see why gamers would soar from a relatively stagnant recreation like Amongst Us to this one.
Nonetheless, even Gaggle Studios could not see this stage of success coming. The sport’s servers went down after large quantities of recent gamers began logging into the sport, prompting its builders to Cheep, “We anticipated a big enhance in gamers however not like that. We’re working to extend capability as rapidly as attainable and can hold everybody up to date. We apologize for the inconvenience, we’re all working arduous so everybody can play.”
These points have now been mounted, however the developer will now have to determine find out how to sustain with their quickly increasing participant base for the long run. It is actually a repeat of the Amongst Us success story, with an equally small growth staff instantly having to scramble to keep up their recreation’s sudden success. What might push Goose Goose Duck forward of the competitors is its fixed updates, completely different participant roles, and customarily extra content material for gamers to latch on to.