Tingus Goose: Weird Idle Game in IOS

App Store Editors’ Notes

Great game; terrible level

I want to say first and foremost that I like this game a lot. I’ve been playing since it came out and have happily contributed money to the developers for making it. That said, there is one level “Apocalypse” that is so poorly designed, thought out and frustrating, that I’m considering no longer supporting the game. In a game that is designed around constructing complicated chains of Rube Goldberg-esque machines to maximize how much money you make, having a level that randomly destroys your babies to prevent you from doing so is an absolutely stupid design choice. And not only do they destroy your potential to make money, they take money away! Absolute madness. Other levels provide obstacles and different paths to force you to work around, but this level is simply random destruction and, unlike the other levels, they provide no means to counter it or even minimize it somehow. It would be scummy to make a player pay to somehow mitigate it, but they don’t even allow that; it is simply a bad design choice. This may seem like a minor gripe in the scheme of things, but I was really enjoying the game and happily supporting it before this absolutely frustrating level put a stop to any desire I had to keep going. I really hope they rethink how that level works, or else I fear many others will fell the same.

Crazier than you’d expect, but in the best way

I downloaded this because it looked silly and fun, and because my nickname for my girlfriend is “goose” so I thought she might get a kick out of it. Day after I downloaded it we were in the ER because she broke both her feet and was on a bunch of pain meds when I showed it to her, which heightened her experience of this game even more. She has since also downloaded it and it is our weird little chaotic competitive thing we do together, which has been nice since she wasn’t able to work while both her feet healed. Our roommates have just given up asking what we are talking about when we yell into the void about how our babies got snatched by bees or crawling eggs with spider legs, and just go “goose?” as if they don’t already know. This game gives off the feeling that the devs were high on *something* when conceiving of every little aspect of this, and I mean that as a compliment. If you want a game that is absolutely bonkers off the wall crazy, while also being something that you can play in small spurts, this is your game.

Fun game, great art

I’ll start this review saying that I spent money on this game and do not regret it. I really, really want to give this game 5 stars, but there are enough irritations that I can’t (edit: I decided to give it 5. It’s perfect, but this team did a really great job and I want more apps like this to be made). First the good: The artwork and writing are great. It’s kookie and fun. The game element is also fairly original in the mobile market and has some very satisfying aspects. It’s also like $10 to get rid of ads forever. The bad: This drains my battery. It’s entirely possible it’s my somewhat dated phone (11 pro) but my hunch is that the rendering of everything is just very processor intensive. Without giving too much away, one part of the game is replaying old levels. This is a pretty standard gimmick in these types of games, but every time you do it, there are, essentially, unskipable cutscenes. You can speed up the game, but that just means the cutscenes play at 2x (or whatever) speed. I would really like it to be able to skip the very beginning and the very end of each level. There are also two levels that are just a chore to complete. They are both interesting, to a certain degree, the first time around, but they are just a slog on subsequent playthroughs. Overall, you should totally download this game, and I hope the dev team continues to make some small improvements.

GOOD

this game is good because it barely has any ads yeah I may have or may not have got a very few ads but still good game I love ducks and geese but this is a whole new experience idk but in this game I thought about something ... HOW ARE THERE ADULTS??? cause the babies just fall into a hole and explode so how did these people make it?? anyways really good game I recommend this game to people all around the globe I think this has different language so yeah get it now where ever you get your games from this game is recommend to 10+ ages in my opinion but it could be a 4+ type game this message is to all parents and yeah im only 10 but this game is Really entertaining im not the only one who loves this game right??? pls get this game I would appreciate it also for the creator of this marvelous game im a great artist can I help with the next game ? anyways I 💜 this game 😍😍😍😍😍😍💜😍💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

This game was actually really good!!

I loved how goofy it was, all the weird stuff made me laugh, genuinely. The concept of the game seems actually quite interesting, and well-thought of. Helping patient's ducks (I suppose it’s theirs), reach their mate, while also making money, is very creative. I also loved how there wasn’t ads everywhere. Not a single one. Unless you wanted something, there wasn’t ads, you could just peacefully play the game, unlike other games. Now onto the actual game play. It was well-coded, not finding any bugs, or any glitches (yet). Which I’m super surprised, given most beta games have extremely bad bugs that they never fix. I found this game to have quality control, and no issues or problems whatsoever while playing the game. I do however, find it somewhat frustrating that you have to wait so long to get to a bigger height, or have a new blossom hatch, without watching ads. That’s okay though. I hope you found this somewhat useful or helpful. If you are reading this, dear, MasterTingus, I watch your videos all the time, and pre-ordered the app once I found it. I enjoyed it a lot, and hope that it grows, and improves. If you, one who thinks you should give this game a try, please do, you won’t regret it. Have fun playing!! <3 (\__/) (>’.’<) (“)_(“)

Was so fun and quirky at first! But annoying progression…

To start, two hours idle unless you pay 10 dollars is crazy! & what’s with things not being unlocked when they’re supposed to be? It seems that ascension is not longer available at level 9 as it’s stated? Really disappointing as that was the hook keeping me playing despite being confused about the game for most of the gameplay as it’s very much a “figure it out on your own” (almost to the point of being un-playable) game. I think developers may need to take a moment and think about how to keep people interested in an idle game… because the two hours limit is not serving what they think it’s serving LOL, but I think the worst part is the misleading milestones, it’s really just discouraging and annoying… This was very much a game I thought I could see myself playing for a long time and from what I’ve read about it, it seems that it *WAS* once incredibly wonderful until developers got greedy, thus subsequent updates have ruined the play experience.

Good idea poor execution

Had been waiting for months for this game to come out as it had on preorder for a while, the game starts out really nice and quirky, with cool and unique game mechanics as well as REALLY great art and design. By the second level I had figured I would be in for the long haul and would support the devs by buying some things in the shop, which did not work. Figured I would continue playing the game just fine without the purchases, but progressed stalled to a STEEP halt at around 4-5 rebirths. I get that it’s an idle game, and things are meant to take time but 1-3 took no time at all compared to 4 and 5. 4-5 you basically come on once a day to grow 0.5-0.8. Legendaries are also not as powerful as they may appear, as you can’t move a lot of them up and down on the tree where as the commons you can. So you either move it as a common and reroll and pray, or you just give up entirely. Rebirth 9 is way too far away for it to be useful.