Over the weekend, a friend casually texted me a link to the Steam store page for Thank Goodness You’re Here!, saying that he thought I might enjoy it as a fan of both the brawler genre and weird British humor.
He was comically right. My personal hype meter went from zero to one hundred just from watching the trailers, and after I played its still-live Steam Next Fest demo — it’s now one of my most-anticipated games of the year.
The marketing for the game proudly declares that it’s published by Panic, those folks behind the Untitled Goose Game — and also some popular legacy Mac software. This might ensare you right away if you liked the brazen adventures of that miscreant goose, but I’m one of the five people who that game didn’t connect with. Thank Goodness You’re Here! has no real connection to it other than the publisher, and a general top-level interest in “town-based tomfoolery,” and it’s being developed by a small team in Yorkshire called Coal Supper. The full game is out on August 1st across all modern platforms except for Xbox — presumably because Microsoft is a ridiculous company which loathes any console video game that doesn’t have “infinite growth” potential, while they also bleed tons of market share to their competitors.
