Arctic Eggs – frying eggs at the edge of the world

In Arctic Eggs you fry eggs. The eggs are physics items that bounce on the pan controlled by you. Fry them on one side and then carefully flip them to do the other one. It's giving Umurangi Generation with half poetic half absurd NPC dialogue like Cruelty Squad. Is it "Eastern European"? You could say that! Is it janky? I guess so.

The setting, the NPCs, the situations they are in, and the things you fry come together to form a world that is intriguing but leaves enough to the player's imagination so they can come up with the rest on their own. Is the game a critique of capitalism? If you want it to be. A game by someone bored of clubbing? Sure! The NPCs are pleasantly friendly and complement your cooking. Judging by the game's overall aesthetic I was convinced that they were going to be berating you every chance they get, and honestly that's something the game's already depressing vibe doesn't need.



Sometimes the physics get annoyingly janky, objects collide with each other while you're flicking the pan and they explode out of the scene. Bugging out like this seems unintended and it gets into the way of mastering the frying mechanics. For all I know this might be platform specific too, I played on Steam Deck. I kept my cool and didn't let the occasional egg explosion bother me.

There are surprisingly many creative things you need to fry or things that affect your frying. Cigarettes are like timers, cockroaches are best kept on their backside, bullets explode after a short time. Frying stays interesting to the end and the game doesn't feel too long. I fed everyone on the normal setting and it took me 3.5 hours.

Play to the end, there's a sweet small thing waiting for you that I'm not going to spoil.