Thank Goodness You’re Here! Review

An adventure game that is best described as a wild fever dream. It has missable achievements but the game is short so mopping up afterward is very doable. My guess would be that completion takes around 5h or less.

Approximate amount of time to 100%: My guess would be around 4 to 5 hours if you know what to do. Or if you follow a guide it might be shorter as you won’t miss out on an achievement, so you don’t have to replay the game.
Estimated achievement difficulty: 2/10
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1,1 but probably 2,1… why the decimal number you ask… because there is an ending you can reach within under 20 minutes.
Is there a good guide available: not yet. This guide comes close, but it is still missing a few achievements.
Multiplayer achievements: No
Missable achievements: Yes, many!
Grinding Achievements: No
DLC-Only achievements: No
Speedrun achievements: No
Time-gated achievements: No
RNG-achievements: No
Does difficulty affect achievements: No difficulty option
Unobtainable/glitched achievements: No

What the heck did I just play? I expected something funny and strange.. but I wasn’t prepared for this amount of strangeness going on in this game. To be upfront, my rating for this game might be a bit lower than some others because it turned out the humor in this game wasn’t my style. There were funny moments, but also quite a lot of moments that didn’t do anything to me.

In Thank Goodness You’re Here! you play as a little guy who goes to visit the small town Barnsworth. The reason why… I’m not exactly sure. Your boss asks you to go there and don’t miss the bus. So the good employee you’re… you jump out of the window to not miss the bus! There you have an appointment with the Major, but he is busy the moment you arrive. So you have a choice… wait for the appointment, or explore the town. If you choose to explore the town.. you’ll enter the wildest fever dream you’ll have without having a fever or without dreaming. You’ll make multiple runs through town to help out the people, or sometimes make their life miserable.

The story on its own is wild and I would recommend playing the first playthrough without a guide and using a second playthrough to mop up the missing achievements. At this moment achievements don’t unlock if you start a new playthrough directly after your first one. You have to restart the game for the achievements to work on a second or third playthrough.

Thank Goodness You’re Here! has many missable achievements. a whole bunch you’ll just unlock out or curiosity and some by just following the story, but there are many where you have to do something specific. Like: listening to two potatoes talking before you chop them down to make fries or find all the singing mice. I think that the main story can be beaten in 1,5/2 hours, so a second playthrough to mop up what you missed isn’t the worst.

I hope that someone will end up writing a complete achievement guide. I tried to make a start but wasn’t sure about everything and also had no clue about a few of them, so I gave up writing one. I’m looking forward to coming back to this game after a guide is available to mop up those last few achievements I’m missing.

I give Thank Goodness You’re Here! 3 out of 5 stars.

This review for Thank Goodness You’re Here! was written on 2 August 2024, based on the current Steam version of the game which has 32 achievements at the time of writing this review. This information can be outdated, for example, when the developer adds or removes achievements or releases (new) DLC.