Thank Goodness You’re Here!
It’s easy to compare this to Untitled Goose Game. Both share a publisher, the Portland-based Playdate manufacturer Panic, and both are about going into a cheerful country village and absolutely wrecking the place. In Thank Goodness You’re Here! (out Aug. 1 for Steam; Switch TBA), however, you’re actually trying to solve these villagers’ problems. Somehow invading the homes to break all their dishware is what they secretly needed all along.
As an inexplicably tiny office worker, you’ve been sent to the scenic village of Barnsworth for a sales meeting with its mayor. When he leaves you hanging in the meeting room, you wander outside and immediately get dragged into the villagers’ everyday problems.
TGYH is designed to look like one of the cheerfully gross comic strips from magazines like Viz or Mad. You play it by simply wandering around and punching the environment, which dents things, makes a mess, and often gets you in trouble. The graphics are pure Cartoon Network, but the humor is aimed at adults, and TGYH is never afraid to go for the gross-out.
