Tingus Goose is completely absurd and possibly 2025's strangest game

Tingus Goose has released recently and after being mystified by the demo, I took a look at the full game and I honestly still have no idea what is going on.

It's a clicker / idle game about growing a weird human-goose hybrid tree, one that spawns little babies called Tingis to help you earn money to continue growing your freak of nature towards the sky to mate with another goose. Once they've mated, your tree fully blossoms and explodes a whole bunch of new geese out into the world and you continue onto the next level.

It's so utterly bizarre I don't quite know how to properly explain it to you. Seeing is believing, and still wildly confusing. Not confusing in the sense of I don't know what I'm doing, the objective is clear to keep growing, I'm just confused on what goes through the mind of the creators when they thought this up.

Tingus Goose is laughably nuts but at the same time it's weirdly captivating of your attention too, as you progress you just want to see more of it to see how batshit insane it will become in the later levels. And to appreciate all the little animations sprinkled into the game.

As you grow your freaky baby spawning goose tree, you get various growths (Blossoms) on the side that are various forms of geese with their own screwed up style and benefits. The key is to get the babies crawling and bouncing all over them as they fall down the goose tree to earn you more credits to keep watering that freaky goose to grow some more towards your mate up in the sky.

You get a sprinkle of upgrades as you go through it too. This system is also completely ridiculous. Below the ground are the roots, which get supplied with calcium from a cow. Yes, there's an underground cow hooked up to supply calcium and that's probably the least weirdest thing in the game.

It's here where you can spend bones to unlock permanent upgrades for you run. Like the ability to combine babies into screwed up abominations that earn you even more money to grow your goose.

On top of that there's a freaky doctor who will allow you to buy various extras using gems you find as you grow, that help you earn even more monies. You can buy up new types of Blossoms for your tree, DNA to upgrade your clicks on babies and more weirdness.

With it being an idle / clicker incremental game the main point is just to keep on going. With each chapter you start fresh with a new goose tree and the amount you need to grow gets longer, but you bring with it all the upgrades you've earned to keep things interesting and not even remotely difficult. It's a casual game that just takes time and not much else.

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Game Highlights:

• Plant seeds in people: Pop a goose seed into a patient's torso, add water, and watch a towering goose-tree burst to life in MasterTingus's unmistakably twisted style.
• Idle meets Rube Goldberg: Babies rain down branches, ricocheting off "Blossoms" to generate cash while "Specimens" chain wild synergies for exponential growth.
• 17 unsettling chapters, 150 plus unlockables: Every chapter introduces new modifiers, lore, Blossoms, Specimens, and Relics. All art is hand-illustrated by MasterTingus.
• Each run offers a uniquely bizarre experience.

There is one issue running the game with Proton - there's a few brief animation videos that don't work on Linux / SteamOS where you end up seeing a video test screen due to the unsupported codec used by the developer. It's quite a common problem and you'll need to use GE-Proton to solve that until the developer fixes it. Apart from that, the game appeared to run fine.

If you like games that try to be different, weird, unique and like nothing else but you also appreciate more chilled games — Tingus Goose is a seriously easy recommendation to pick up.