I should stress that the images are, of course, harmless and you can easily shut them down. Only he's not a Clippy-style office assistant he's a horrible in-game malware program that floods your HypnOS terminal with adverts, viruses and other online nasties until you pay to have him removed.ĭesktop Goose operates in a similar fashion, dragging all sorts of goose-related meme content onto your desktop to cause as much havoc as possible so you pay attention to him. He reminded me a lot of Hypnospace Outlaw's Professor Helper character, who you can download from the game's HypnOS directory to act as a kind of Microsoft Clippy kind of character to help you navigate its pages and get advice on how to use HypnOS most effectively. Even worse, he'd peck at my mouse cursor if I tried to close any of this text and pictorial based handy work, which is not especially helpful when you're trying to get a day's work done. When he first waddled onto my desktop, it wasn't long before he pulled in a notes saying, 'i cause problems on purpose' and 'mess with the honk, you get the bonk', and I was starting to regret ever hatching his little batch file into existence. To be clear, Desktop Goose is, for the most part, incredibly ominous. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Thank you, desktop goose, you're all right. Occasionally he'll bring you notes of encouragement saying you're doing a good job, and it actually made my heart swell to one hundred times its normal size. The goose is, as you'd expect, a monster, slapping his tiny feet all across your monitor, dragging in goose-related pictures and notepad messages that he's apparently typed with his own feet, and if you try and shut them down he'll come after you and bite your mouse cursor.ĭesktop Goose has been out for a while, but it's one of the many hundreds of games now available as part of the stupendously good value Itch Bundle For Racial Justice And Equality, which has just ticked over an incredible $7 million. We all loved playing as the horrible goose in Untitled Goose Game last year, but Sam Person's Desktop Goose companion has now given me a taste of what it feels like to be on the receiving end of that terrible honking machine.

Desktop goose review