Goose Goose Duck, a post-Among Us take on the ✤social deduction genre, is suddenly one of the biggest games on Steam - and that popularity seems to have been kickstarted by a livestream from K-pop sensation V from BTS.
launched in October 2021, well after the peak of Among Us fever had passed. It's very similar to Among Us, right down 💧to the visual style - except for the part where the crew of adorably stubby astronauts have been replaced by mischievous ducks. Its main advantage over its inspiration is an even bigger variety of game modes and options.
.But suddenly, in November, Goose Goose Duck sta♈rted rising from its usual daily concurrent player peaks, which were🍰 in the 4k to 5k range. On November 18, it reached 10k. 25k on November 25. 50k on November 30. Today, December 6, that concurrent player count reached 166,452.
It's tough to t൩rack down all the factors leading to a game's sudden jump in popularity. A for Duck Duck Goose introduced some notable new features, but there was nothing out of line with what had been in previous patches. Then I found this.
Lmaooo this is so funny that imposter k!ll!ng everyone except kim taehyung 😭 and he’s just done pic.twitter.com/j9mGDXUOVc
That's Kim Taehyung, better known as V of BTS fame, playing Duck Duck Goose with fans on a November 14 live stream. The extremely🍸 sudden jump in popularity makes a lot more sense now. Dread it. Run from it. K-pop stans arrive all the same. And now, at the time of writing, Goose Goose Duck is the seventh♓-biggest game on Steam.
Among Us has become a terrible art tool and the devs love it.
Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional 🔯dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-a🌊dventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.
