Honk Honk Hiss Honk

In Untitled Goose Game, you are a goose, who wreaks havoc in a small English village. Because you're apparently the only goose in town, and have nothing better to do. Or maybe it's revenge, revolving around the series of events that resulted in you being the only goose in the village.

Nah, probably just a goose having fun. 

The game gives you an entire checklist of things to do at five different locations. Steal enough stuff from the town garden to have yourself a picnic on the lawn. Scare the brat in the town square so badly he locks himself in a phone booth. Or the garage. Or one, then the other. Traumatize that kid! Show him who's boss! (You.)

Once you finish most of the list in a given location, the game will add one more task. If you can get through it, the path to the next location will open, along with whoever you've annoyed putting up some sort of sign declaring their intolerance of geese. Once you get the whole way through, the game adds a bunch more things to do.

As a goose, you have a limited number of moves in your repertoire. You can grab things with your bill and carry or drag them. You can honk, you can flap your wings (but not fly), swim in the various waterways, duck low enough to get under tables or other low-hanging objects. How you combine those skills to make an old man fall on his bum or steal a toy boat from a sink, that's for you to figure out.

Some solutions are as simple as grabbing the object and running. You can't outrun a person over the long haul, and if they catch you, you'll drop whatever you've got. But if you can get to someplace they can't, a pond or through a hole in the fence, you're golden.

Others require more steps. If you want to open an umbrella in the TV store, you'll have to get past the shopkeeper to swipe an umbrella, then stash it somewhere she won't find it and take it back, but still close enough to the store you can drag it in after you've lured the salesperson out by terrorizing a child, and before they return.

And, of course, you can just run around causing mayhem for the heck of it. Do you think the nosy artist lady's "fish with legs" statue is obnoxious? Steal it! Drag it off somewhere and dump it in a hole, or at least keep her busy having to put it back where she wants it. Pull stuff off the shopkeeper's shelves. Turn on the sprinklers while the gardener is standing next to them. Uproot all the figures in the model village. Ring bells. Turn on radios. Turn off radios. Topple trash cans. Steal flowers. The world is your dumpster. (I don't think geese care for oysters.)