Throw an Egg!

The pitch

A Roblox-style egg simulator. Lift weights to build Power, time the throw meter and hurl your egg across seven themed zones from Sunny Meadow to the Cosmic Rift. Then grab it and sprint home before a giant tsunami catches you. Hatch 21 blocky pets across 9 rarities with Huge, Gold, Shiny and Rainbow variants. Your pets earn cash every second, even offline, so you can buy heavier weights, faster shoes and more pens, then rebirth for permanent multipliers.

Controls & how it runs

Stand on the orange pad and LIFT (tap, hold or AUTO) to build Power. On the yellow launch pad press THROW and stop the meter in the green for a PERFECT throw. When the egg lands, run home toward the camera (W or stick up) before the tsunami hits. Walk up to a ready egg to hatch it. Controls: WASD or joystick to move, E / Space / click to lift, throw and hatch, drag to look, wheel to zoom.

Getting a run going takes exactly one press: Press start, up top, and the game boots inside this page — nothing downloads in the background and no form wants your details before the first jump. The cabinet is drawn for a flexible screen and listens to mouse, keyboard or touch, whichever the game prefers. It reshapes itself for tall and wide screens alike, so phone, tablet and desktop all get the full picture. Given a fullscreen button, use it — scores look better at full size, that's just science.

Pro tips for arcade cabinets

• Treat your first run as a scouting mission. Arcade cabinets hide their cruelty in the second minute, not the first — learn where the difficulty spikes before you start chasing numbers.
• Small scores compound. Grab the easy pickups on every pass instead of gambling the whole run on one heroic line; heroes respawn, banked points don't evaporate.
• Watch the edges of the screen. In classic arcade design the next problem almost always enters from somewhere you weren't looking — build the habit of scanning the borders.

Throw an Egg! — quick-fire questions

Does Throw an Egg! cost anything to play?

Not a token. The cabinet is free from the first run to the five-hundredth — no wallet, no sign-up, no toll booth hiding three levels in. The adverts around the page are what keep the floor's lights on.

What sort of game is Throw an Egg!?

It stands on our Arcade row — that's the family it plays most like. The pitch above is the publisher's own rundown of what it throws at you and what it hands back.

Can I play Throw an Egg! on my phone?

Happily, yes. It runs inside the browser on phones and tablets the same way it does on a computer. It reshapes itself for tall and wide screens alike, so phone, tablet and desktop all get the full picture.

Do I need to install anything first?

Nothing whatsoever. Throw an Egg! is an HTML5 game: hit the start button and it boots on this page, and shutting the tab sweeps the cabinet clean behind you.

Before you wander off

Personal best banked, or still chasing it? Either way the full Arcade row is powered on and waiting — The main floor: 415 cabinets of pure arcade stock — the quick, the loud and the gloriously unfair. If it beeps, flashes and dares you to beat a number, it lives on this row.