This game has you win your freedom by cooking up some tasty eggs

polygon.com:

We are currently in the middle of a bountiful month for indie games, and our collective cup runneth over with inventive, stunning, and incredible titles. So I apologize that I have to stop and beg you, upon bended knee, to please play this game about flipping eggs in the Arctic.

That’s not me simplifying the plot as a joke; that’s just the game. It’s stylized like games of the PlayStation era, and the game starts with the camera pointed straight at a chicken. I stumble forward past rows and rows of chickens, until I see a guard. His mask is intimidating, but he’s pretty polite to me. It seems like I tried to escape from… whatever this place is, and as a result, I have been forcibly downgraded. I can walk, and I can cook. That’s it.

Walking is pretty simple, but cooking is not. All those chickens lay a lot of eggs, and I cook ’em up for people. One of my hands grasps the pan, and I can control the intensity or sensitivity of my grip with the scroll wheel. Then, I move the mouse to slide the egg inside the pan.

Arctic Eggs is OUT NOW! Please flip my eggs pic.twitter.com/UUlJtkM3ud

This isn’t incredibly difficult per se, and some people will grasp it easier than others. I can’t think of another game that has physics-based instrument controls attached to the mouse, so I had to learn how to do that from scratch. As a result, I’m a pretty terrible chef.

Once one side of the egg is cooked, I have to do the Dark Souls of egg cooking and flip it delicately onto its other side. I can see why this place needs so many chickens; I’ve tossed dozens of eggs out of the pan. Some people want me to throw stuff like bacon in with their egg, which makes for a greater challenge because if anything falls out of the pan, I have to start over from scratch. The more ingredients, the higher the risk that something goes flying. Sometimes, god forbid, they want more eggs.

No one seems to mind my frequent stumbles; after spending 15 minutes juggling one lady’s egg and her cigarette — an