Hear me out on this one: Battlefield, but with eggs. No, stop moving your mouse cursor over to the home section, I’m honestly suggesting it. One of the few games I’ve enjoyed through the years of playing any and all dross indie developers slop out, is Eggs 1942. It’s a game that’s inspired by the early Battlefield games, and thus a series that has completely passed me by. I hate humans, you see.

Give me a large map, a handful or a hundred bots on each side, and whatever goal I am meant to fight towards, and I will be happy. Now you have hyperactive children demanding that everything has to be multiplayer, and if you are reviewing something but don’t mention it, you are imminently the worst human. Pol Pot, Adolf Hitler, Fozzie Bear, Jack the Ripper, John Wayne Gacy, and Earle Nelson pale in comparison if you don’t tell someone that online gameplay is boring. So, of course, this week I’ve decided in my cunning act of revenge on a random person on the internet, I’ll play something single player.

Really, there’s not much to describe of beyond that. I assume everyone understands the concept Battlefield has been hammering for several years now. You play as some kind of beam of an all-knowing, morally ambiguous, baby-eating mix between Fozzie Bear and Mother Teresa. Depending on what side you are on, baby-eating or team America, you have to kill the other side and take control of the other side’s command points, i.e respawn points.

In Eggs 1942 the concept is stripped down to reveal everything, including the prince Albert it has been wearing. There’s a red side, the evil and Nazi-like empire of omelet making proportions, and the blues, who are hard-boiled from birth so no one can get to their soft center. However, it is less about the fact you are playing as eggs and more about how simple and mundane it all looks and feels. The first level in the story mode is to fight on the kitchen table of a house that has no doors or humans.

In the next few levels, it retreats into the war setting like a comfortable pair of shoes. I don’t blame the developer for that, mostly because it is still fun to fight them on the beaches, on the landing grounds, and indeed on the kitchen counters. What I would like to blame them for is how the game has almost been abandoned in an Early Access state, with no promise of return or patchwork done.

This is the issue with Eggs 1942. It is a very simple concept with performance problems and a lack of a roadmap to where it is going. Now, without a developer sitting in command negating these concerns, there is no reason to pick up your wallet and pay the few dollars for the game. Upon returning to play it for a few hours I’ve had Eggs 1942 freeze up and crash on me, controls not working and, surprisingly, I’ve gotten a little bored of the idea of playing. Why? I suspect the issues aren’t going to be resolved anytime soon.

So the question becomes: Do I recommend a game that’s (as far as we know) abandoned in Early Access? Kind-of. The core concept is fun and satisfying, with lots of egg-based puns when you crack the reds open across the battlefield. Though I’m sure the low-quality graphics, bothersome performance, and general indie feel to the whole game, plus the lack of multiplayer, will put off several prospective players.

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Eggs 1942

$4.99 USD

6

Score

6.0/10

Pros

• Fun, Reliable Gameplay
• A Silly Little Idea

Cons

• Buggy Performance
• Possibly Abandoned