{"id":178449,"date":"2023-01-06T03:52:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/goose-goose-duck-is-a-viral-hit-on-steam-thanks-to-bts-member-v\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T03:52:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T03:52:00","slug":"goose-goose-duck-is-a-viral-hit-on-steam-thanks-to-bts-member-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/goose-goose-duck-is-a-viral-hit-on-steam-thanks-to-bts-member-v\/","title":{"rendered":"Goose Goose Duck is a viral hit on Steam, thanks to BTS member V"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fire up Steam in the early hours of the day and you might notice a surprising new entry near the top of the platform’s Most Played list: Goose Goose Duck<\/em>. The free-to-play social deduction game was the No. 3 most-played game on Steam on Thursday, reaching a peak of 563,677 players and pushing past Steam favorites like PUBG: Battlegrounds<\/em>, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2<\/em>and Apex Legends<\/em>. <\/p>\n

What has driven Goose Goose Duck<\/em>‘s surge in popularity? Gaggle.fun, the developers behind Goose Goose Duck<\/em>can thank Korean pop behemoth BTS, of course.<\/p>\n

Goose Goose Duck<\/em> was originally released in October 2021, after an Early Access launch six months earlier. The social deduction game, in which players take on the role of geese trying to root out the masquerading duck (or other bird) among them, typically had a few thousand players each day, previously peaking in February last year with 21,362 players, according to data from Steamcharts.<\/p>\n

But in November of last year, V from BTS \u2014 real name Kim Taehyung \u2014 started streaming Goose Goose Duck<\/em> to fans through the social app and web platform Weverse. (He also streamed Fall Guys<\/em> and Among Us<\/em>.) Almost immediately, Goose Goose Duck<\/em> quickly became a much bigger hit, going from around 6,000 peak concurrent players in mid-November to nearly 130,000 peak concurrent players a month later. The game’s peak player numbers tripled by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

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