Mighty Goose

Mighty Goose follows Mighty Goose chasing after a villain known as the Void King.^[1] The game can be played in local cooperative mode.^[2] Mighty Goose can take four hits before dying.^[3] Enemies can drop coins and healing items.^[3] Coins can be used to purchase weapons and vehicles.^[1][3] The player can activate various abilities to aid them in battle, such as the ability to increase their movement. The player can also select a secondary weapon.^[4] Players can bring companions into each level. The companions can be controlled by AI or a second player.^[5]

At the start of each level, Mighty Goose is equipped with an arm cannon.^[2] Mighty Goose can pick up special weapons such as a machine gun, a shotgun, a rocket launcher, and a tesla coil.^[1] These weapons have a limited amount of ammunition.^[1] Shooting downwards allows Mighty Goose to hover for a short amount of time.^[4] Special attacks can be unlocked, such as summoning minions, or instantly filling the player's Mighty Meter.^[1] The Mighty Meter fills up as Mighty Goose attacks enemies.^[3][1] When the Mighty Meter is full, it can be activated, making Mighty Goose deal more damage and become invincible.^[3] Some areas may task the player with activating a switch to open a door.^[1] Mighty Goose can perform a dodge roll that allows them to avoid damage.^[6] Most levels end with a boss fight.^[1] The player can revisit stages to improve performance and earn higher rankings.^[1]

Mighty Goose was developed by Richard Lems, who previously worked on Kunai, an action platformer.^[7] The game's development took two years, and overlapped Kunai's development by a year.^[8] Lems worked on the game alone for around half a year, and met MP2 Games, who would offer to port the game to consoles.^[8] A QA team and composer were hired, and the developers signed with Playism.^[8] It took 1.5 more years to complete the game's development.^[8] The core of Mighty Goose took inspiration from Metal Slug.^[8] A level from the game, where Mighty Goose has to jump from vehicle to vehicle in a convoy, took inspiration from Mad Max.^[9] The character of Mighty Goose was created from Lems' character sketches in a Moleskine-style book.^[8] One of the characters was a goose wearing power armor.^[8] Lems was unaware that Untitled Goose Game was in development, stating that he was "facing a dilemma" on whether to change the character.^[8]

Mighty Goose was announced in September 2020 for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch, and was scheduled to release in 2021.^[10] Mighty Goose launched on June 5 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Switch, and PC.^[11] Mighty Goose was added to Xbox Game Pass on September 30.^[12] In November, Mighty Goose was one of 17 games to receive Xbox Touch Controls.^[13] In January 2022, a trailer was released for an update that would add a water-themed stage to the game.^[14] The update was planned to release in Q1 2022,^[15][16] then released on April 19.^[17][18] The levels could be unlocked after completing Mighty Goose's campaign.^[19]