The Viral Video Game Where You Play a Horrible Goose

begins with a honk. A goose emerges from a bush, focused and feathered, with no other purpose than to test the mettle of local villagers. The makers of this video game—the for the Nintendo Switch as of this week—describe it as a “slapstick-stealth-sandbox” experience, in which players direct a bird to do mildly mean things to people as they go about their day. This rude creature shrieks at villagers, takes their things, and gets in their way, all while solving puzzles that grow more complex and twisted. The best encapsulation of the game comes in its tagline: “It’s a lovely morning in the village, and you are a horrible goose.”