Over my years of playing video games, I’ve come to realize that there is one thing any developer can do to grab my attention and keep it for the long haul, even for a game that’s a genre I’m usually not a fan of: Make it weird (or cute, but weird works better). I’m a sucker for all things bizarre, and the latest game to achieve this feat is the incredibly strange Tingus Goose.

Described as an ‘accurate goose-growing simulator’, Tingus Goose is a clicker game by SweatyChair. It is bizarre, hilarious, and at times utterly depraved, with goose heads sprouting from the bodies of humans, rat-king-like clusters of geese shaped into human office workers on the verge of a mental break, and a certain amount of charm that has me weirdly obsessed.

The game originally released in 2023 on iOS and Android, but now it’s coming to Steam free of micro transactions.

It’s hard to explain

I’m fairly confident that if you’ve never heard of Tingus Goose or its animator, Master Tingus, then you’re going to read what follows and assume I’m entering into some kind of fever dream. You may end up with more questions than answers just from reading this article, and I can honestly say I have none of those answers for you. Still, I’ll try to explain this bizarre little indie gem. 

Tingus Goose is all about a goose with an ever-growing neck that vomits out human babies, using them to make money as they fall down the neck and eventually travel into the piggy bank at the bottom. That money can then be used to extend the neck, eventually allowing the goose to grow long enough to reach its love interest high above and mate to reach the next level. 

As you reach new heights with your unsettlingly long-necked goose, ‘Blossoms’ erupt from the sides that can be hatched to provide more money-making opportunities. These Blossoms are actually various goose-adjacent Lovecraftian horror creatures with many legs or extendable necks of their own. Each Blossom acts differently, criss-crossing the poor unsuspecting newborn children down the neck. There’s even one that eats one baby and then poops out twins, and you can merge babies to make… Bigger babies. 

Your family might have some questions

In hindsight, I can categorically admit that playing Tingus Goose with my five-year-old at my side was probably not the brightest idea I’ve ever had. In my defense, she seemed to be distracted doing her own thing, but it momentarily slipped my mind how utterly distracting animations by Master Tingus have always been. I’ve fallen into the Master Tingus wormhole on TikTok a few more times than I care to admit, but somehow I thought the game would be different. 

I was wrong. 

As my five-year-old asked me why things were happening, I found myself saying a single three-word sentence on repeat: “I don’t know.” There are no explanations for any of the things you’ll witness if you dive into this Next Fest demo, especially ones such as “why is that lady’s baby a goose?” or “why is that man just a bunch of gooses?” Let’s face it, Master Tingus has a talent for creating bizarre and unsettling animations, and this is just a showcase of that oddity in playable form.

More weirdness on the horizon

The demo of Tingus Goose has been available to play through Steam since October 9, but as part of Steam Next Fest, a new demo chapter will be added on October 17. This additional chapter will bring the total number of demo chapters to four, so even if you’ve played the demo previously, there’s more coming that’s sure to take the weirdness just another step onward. 

There isn’t a release date for the full game just yet, although it is set to drop at some point before the end of 2025. Until then, the demo is there to confuse and amuse, and you could always get sucked into the same TikTok wormhole that I regularly find myself in if you look up Master Tingus. His penchant for the wildly strange goes far beyond geese.