Arctic Eggs

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Overwhelmingly PositiveOverwhelmingly Positive · 96%2024

$9.99

US Steam price, checked 3 h ago

The verdict

A short, bizarre, atmospheric physics-cooking game with great music and absurdist writing. Skip it if a slippery, finicky pan or random quirky dialogue sounds annoying.

Great for

Fans of surreal indie games, PS1 aesthetics and short, quirky challenge experiences

Main risk

Frustrating, finicky pan physics and dialogue that feels random or pretentious

What players love

Weird, funny, thought-provoking writing

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews

“It's exploring free will and the desire for more and everything that makes us human.”
Steam review · 3.5 h played ↗

“hilarious dialogue, actual fun challenging gameplay loop that adds new features in a really cool way throughout.”
Steam review · 2.6 h played ↗

“how deep this game really is.. from outside it seems like absurd nonsense, but listen closely and you realize it's far from being about eggs and strange people.”
Steam review · translated · 4.3 h played ↗

Satisfying, varied pan-flipping gameplay

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews

“like bullets that explode, ice cubes that need to be kept inside a shot glas, roaches that try and escape the pan.”
Steam review · 3.7 h played ↗

“Mastering the craft feels good and even when you fail, the ridiculousness of the situation is too humorous to be mad at.”
Steam review · 2.3 h played ↗

“this mechanic, though simple, is developed simply wonderfully, constantly new objects to fry”
Steam review · translated · 2.9 h played ↗

Unique surreal dystopian world and PS1 visuals

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews

“I love the PSX (?) style graphics with some modern post fx on top.”
Steam review · 3.1 h played ↗

“The low-poly, retro style fits the strange frozen world perfectly and gives it a lot of charm.”
Steam review · 2.1 h played ↗

Great soundtrack and atmosphere

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews

“The music is jazzy and fantastic, and compliments the setting in a way that I would never have anticipated.”
Steam review · 5.5 h played ↗

“you're here to cook to probably one of the best soundtracks in a game ever”
Steam review · 5.3 h played ↗

“From chill environments to even smoother jazz! this lil gem had it all!!!!”
Steam review · 5.6 h played ↗

Short and doesn't overstay its welcome

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews

“The game respects your time and never overstays its welcome.”
Steam review · 4.6 h played ↗

“Game doesn't overstay its welcome either, I think its the perfect length.”
Steam review · 3.1 h played ↗

What players complain about

Frustrating, janky pan physics

Mentioned in ~2 in 5 negative reviews

“Very often an object will be stubbornly and impossibly stuck standing vertical on its side, or two or three objects will remain stacked and not cook.”
Steam review · 0.6 h played ↗

“It's impossible to really control the pan. Makes the game horribly unfun to play.”
Steam review · 0.3 h played ↗

“The process is awfully annoying, ingredients constantly ride over each other, eggs stick together.”
Steam review · translated · 0.5 h played ↗

Random, pretentious dialogue

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews

“When everything is weird, nothing is weird. Every line is a non-sequitur”
Steam review · 0.6 h played ↗

“it was just pseudo-profound dialogue... intentionally obtuse to the point of being pretentious.”
Steam review · 2.8 h played ↗

“Nonsense instead of a plot and dialogues, which I just started skipping midway.”
Steam review · translated · 2.2 h played ↗

Repetitive, tedious core mechanic

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“It's extremely repetitive and boring at its core.”
Steam review · 0.5 h played ↗

“one tiny minigame your gonna do 1000+ times”
Steam review · 16.3 h played ↗

Too short and too pricey

Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews

“it's over too quickly and there isn't any replayability.”
Steam review · 3.8 h played ↗

“$10 is comparatively expensive for what you get”
Steam review · 2.6 h played ↗

Frame-rate-tied physics, stutter and crashes

Mentioned in ~1 in 13 negative reviews

“devs forgot to lock a game with physics tied to frame rate to 60fps”
Steam review · 2.2 h played ↗

“at a random moment the game can freeze for a few milliseconds and then pretend you just spun the pan wildly”
Steam review · translated · 2.7 h played ↗

White screen visual bug on some GPUs

Mentioned in ~1 in 30 negative reviews

“I get nothing but a white screen unless I'm right up against a wall, so it's impossible to play.”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗

“Currently unplayable on NVIDIA GPU due to visual bug (everything is bright white)”
Steam review · 0.2 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Verified

Minimum

OSWindows 7 and up

Processorntel® Core™ i5-3470 or newer

Memory4 GB RAM

GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 or newer

Storage1 GB available space

OSWindows 7 and up

Processorntel® Core™ i5-3470 or newer

Memory4 GB RAM

GraphicsNVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 or newer

Storage1 GB available space

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