
- 70/100
- Players7 ratings
- 70/100
- Critics2 reviews
More scores
- Metacritic7 critic reviews
- 71/100
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 74/100
- GameFAQsEasy-Just Right
- 3.46/5
- Player reviews
- 86% positive958 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Verified
- Runs on
- Windows, Mac, Linux
- Price
- US$19.99
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2021 · Blastmode · Arcade · Indie
Mighty Goose
Mighty Goose is a fast paced run & gun shooter starring a bounty hunter Goose. Use epic weapons and devastating war machines to battle against screen filling bosses and hordes of enemies!
- Released
- 5 June 2021
- Platforms
- LinuxNintendo SwitchPlayStation 4PlayStation 5WindowsXbox OneXbox Series X/SmacOS
- Genres
- ArcadeIndiePlatformerRun and gunShooter
- Developers
- Blastmode
- Publishers
- Playism
- Modes
- Co-opLocal multiplayerSingle-player
- Perspective
- Side view
- Themes
- ActionComedy
- Engine
- Construct
- Country
- Netherlands
- Age ratings
- USK 16ESRB E10+GRAC 12+PEGI 12
- Languages
- Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal) and 2 more
- Time to beat
- 2.5hmain story6hcompletionist
About
Mighty Goose is a run and gun video game developed by Blastmode and published by Playism. It was released for Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S. The game follows Mighty Goose, a bounty hunter travelling across the galaxy to defeat the Void King.
Development of Mighty Goose took two years, and overlapped the development of a game called Kunai. Richard Lems worked on the game alone for around half a year, and MP2 Games ported Mighty Goose to consoles. The team later hired a composer, QA team, and signed with Playism. The game took inspiration from Metal Slug, and an in-game level took inspiration from Mad Max. Mighty Goose received mixed reviews from critics.
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The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
Mighty Goose follows Mighty Goose chasing after a villain known as the Void King. The game can be played in local cooperative mode. Mighty Goose can take four hits before dying. Enemies can drop coins and healing items.
Coins can be used to purchase weapons and vehicles. The player can activate various abilities to aid them in battle, such as the ability to increase their movement. The player can also select a secondary weapon. Players can bring companions into each level.
Development
Mighty Goose was developed by Richard Lems, who previously worked on Kunai, an action platformer. The game's development took two years, and overlapped Kunai's development by a year. Lems worked on the game alone for around half a year, and met MP2 Games, who would offer to port the game to consoles. A QA team and composer were hired, and the developers signed with Playism.
5 more years to complete the game's development. The core of Mighty Goose took inspiration from Metal Slug. A level from the game, where Mighty Goose has to jump from vehicle to vehicle in a convoy, took inspiration from Mad Max. The character of Mighty Goose was created from Lems' character sketches in a Moleskine-style book.
Reception
Mighty Goose received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic. Reviewers from Famitsu gave Mighty Goose scores of 9, 8, 8, and 8.
TouchArcade's Shaun Musgrave called Mighty Goose "fun" and a "real run-and-gun treat while it lasts". He praised the pixel art, calling it "excellent". However, Musgrave felt that the game was "too slight for its own good", but wrote that it ended "where it needs to". He believed that there could be "bits of frustration" due to the placing of the checkpoints.
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Collections3 collections
Platform libraries
Years
- Games released in 2021List › April–June
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