Goose Goose Duck becomes the third most popular title on Steam thanks to a BTS member

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The Among Us inspired free-to-play game Goose Goose Duck reached a peak of 563,677 players on Steam this Thursday, January 5, and it is believed that the high popularity of this title has been thanks to Kim Tae-Hyung, professionally known as V, of the South Korean boy band BTS.

On late November 2022, Taehyung did a live stream where he got to play Goose Goose Duck with fans. Since then, there has been an exponential increase in players to the point of surpassing the game from which it was originally inspired, Among Us.

Daniel Ahmad, an industry analyst, also stated via]Twitter that the game is receiving much of this popularity in Asian markets including China and Korea, and also considers that the reason for this is due to the BTS member playing this title on stream.

This social deduction game has been going viral over the past month and just surpassed Among Us' PCCU on Steas

China and Korea have been key markets. According to our China Games Streaming Tracker it was the #8 most watched PC game on live streaming platforms in the past 2 weeks https://t.co/iXCqh3YyB1

— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) January 5, 2023

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Many people are jumping into this indie title and this situation is similar to what Among Us experienced when popular streamers decided to play it and the huge wave of players arrived collapsing servers. It became so popular that countless memes were created and many are still relevant today.

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