I Love Egg

Posted on May 21, 2026 I stumbled into Egg in 4 great games you can finish in one sitting on mothership.blog. Spoiler: I did not finish it in one sitting (more on that in a second), but I did fall in love with it! Go download it (or fire it up in your browser) and try jumping around! It feels good. I was thinking about how I didn’t finish Egg in one sitting, despite Zoë Hannah writing on Mothership that “you can crush in a few hours.” I was having a fantastic time, but my attention wandered, despite the fact that I was playing a video game! I read Cal Newport’s newsletter Film Students Can No Longer Sit Through Films recently, and I was thinking about it as I was playing Egg. Two minutes into playing Egg I felt the pull of “I need to hop on Discord and say something cute about how Egg is my new favorite Souls-like”. I decided I would try to finish the game before telling anyone (other than my spouse) about it. I did immediately shout “come feel how good the egg jumps!” but that felt…