Amongst Us like social deduction sport Goose Goose Duck has smashed Steam data after BTS‘ V began streaming it.
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Primarily based on the latest figures, the free-to-play sport garnered a peak of 563,677 gamers, making it the third hottest sport on the platform.
Goose Goose Duck was initially launched in October 2021, after an Early Entry launch six months earlier.
The social deduction sport, by which gamers tackle the function of geese attempting to root out the masquerading duck, beforehand peaked in February final yr with 21,362 gamers.
However after V began streaming Goose Goose Duck to followers by means of the social app and net platform Weverse, nearly instantly it rapidly turned a a lot larger hit, going from round 6,000 peak concurrent gamers in mid-November to almost 130,000 peak concurrent gamers a month later. The sport’s peak participant numbers tripled by the tip of the yr.
That surge turned overwhelming for Gaggle.enjoyable in accordance with Polygon, which posted a couple of Goose Goose Duck server outage on January 2, following a mass inflow of recent gamers.
“We respect all of the love and assist,” the developer mentioned in a publish on Steam. “We anticipated a big enhance in gamers however not like this. 250k enhance of our already large participant base was an excessive amount of. We’re engaged on rising capability as quick as we are able to and can hold everybody up to date. We apologise for the inconvenience, we’re all working laborious to verify everybody can play.”
In the meantime, V not too long ago shared a chic cowl of the festive traditional ‘It’s Starting To Look A Lot Like Christmas’.
The observe was initially written in 1951 by Meredith Wilson and was first launched in the identical yr by Perry Como and The Fontane Sisters with Mitchell Ayers & His Orchestra. Over time, it has been lined by the likes of Bing Crosby, Michael Bublé, Meghan Trainor and plenty of others.