Easter eggs are fun to discover. Whether you find them as a small cat in a robot-filled city or as a young boy chased by killer animatronics, easter eggs are features that make you slow down and appreciate the game developer’s wittiness.
However, as fun as those are, what about eggs? Just eggs. Not fun pieces that you accidentally find, but eggs that are significant to the game you are playing. Eggs that are weapons, eggs that are cooked, eggs that are integral to the plot, eggs in need of hatching, eggs for special events, or eggs that are power-ups - these eggs are easier to find and fun to interact with.
10 Walk Until Your Egg Hatches In Pokemon
In the Pokemon world, it takes a lot of walking to crack open one egg. These eggs can be discovered either as part of the game's plot or by leaving two Pokemon in the daycare. Patience is the key to hatching these eggs. Patience and walking.
In games such as Pokemon Go, you have to physically walk in order to hatch your egg. Despite being a laborious process, once the egg hatches it is worth it if you can get that perfect Pokemon. If not, you can always try (and walk) again.
9 Eat The Egg In Yakuza Like A Dragon
Yakuza Like A Dragon allows you to summon fellow heroes and friends to help you in battles. One of these poundmates that you can call is Omelette, the chicken and mascot of Ichiban Confectioneries (later Ichiban Holdings).
Using her special skill, Egg of Wonders, Omelette lays an egg that, once eaten with rice, can restore your MP or HP. This boost can help you in a pinch when fighting foes. Though it is strange to summon a chicken during the battle, it is comforting to know that she (and her eggs) are only one phone call away.
8 Cook Up Egg Dishes In Cooking Mama
Cooking Mama is a game that lets you create delicious dishes. To make these eye-catching recipes, all you have to do is follow Mama's instructions and complete a short minigame within a time limit.
In Cooking Mama, you have a variety of egg-based meals to make such as boiled eggs, fried eggs, and even egg on toast. For more complicated delicacies, there are egg tarts, pudding, and omelets. Since her DS debut, Cooking Mama has been creating delicious eggy meals on platforms such as the Wii, the 3DS, and even Apple Arcade.
7 Defeat Enemies With Eggs In Yoshi’s Island
The main objective in Yoshi’s Island is to protect baby Mario from enemies that could hurt him and make him cry. As nice as it would be to flutter jump your way to victory, Yoshi requires a weapon to protect the Mushroom Kingdom’s future hero. Thus, the usage of eggs.
Yoshi can create eggs by swallowing enemies and can then throw those eggs to deal damage. It is a handy weapon but unfortunately, you can only carry so many. Luckily, there are many enemies to swallow, so you can rest assured knowing that you have plenty of eggs in your arsenal.
6 Find Eggs In Animal Crossing
Taking place during an event called Bunny Day, you can find these painted eggs all over your town in Animal Crossing. In games such as City Folk and New Leaf, these eggs will hold candy or a prize ticket. If you get a prize ticket, you can exchange it for a piece of furniture in the Egg Series.
New Horizons takes a different approach, where you can use the eggs you find to craft the furniture in the Bunny Day series. Both the Egg Series and the Bunny Day Series feature many egg-shaped memorabilia to remind you of the delightful adventures you had fishing, digging, and searching for eggs.
5 Grab The Eggs In Splatoon
In Splatoon and Splatoon 2, you have the orange power eggs. These eggs can be used to upgrade your weapons in single-player missions. In Splatoon 2, collecting a lot of these eggs (and golden eggs) is the main objective for Salmon Run.
After a successful Salmon Run completion, you will be rewarded Grizzco Points. Accumulating a certain amount of these points can get you prize capsules that can then be traded for bonuses such as meal tickets, cash, or gear. These eggs may be small, but they are useful (and stressful) to collect.
4 Protect The Eggs In Angry Birds
The first Angry Birds had you using a slingshot and an arsenal of birds to reclaim and protect your stolen eggs from the thieving green pigs. Flash forward a decade, several phone upgrades, and a couple of movies, and these birds are still crashing into wobbly infrastructures and decimating their enemy green pigs.
Even after all these years, these colorful fowl will still do their best to protect their eggs. Level after level, gold star after gold star, the Angry Birds will stop at nothing till their eggs have returned to their nest.
3 Wake The Egg In Link’s Awakening
The giant pink and white egg is your only way off Koholint Island in Link’s Awakening. This ominous egg sits on top of Mt. Tamaranch and looms over the entire island. It houses the sleeping Wind Fish and is a constant reminder of what your main mission is.
To open this egg, you will need to collect instruments from the island's eight dungeons and play the Ballad of the Wind Fish. Just know that after you crack this egg open, there is no going back.
2 Run From The Egg In BurgerTime
BurgerTime has you running away from animated eggs as you try to construct the perfect burger. These sunny-side-up enemies chase you up, down, and all across the stage. The BurgerTime eggs are merciless in their quest to stop you, so you will have to constantly run away from them.
Luckily, they can be temporarily stunned, allowing you to slip past and continue on with your burger construction. Unluckily, they will not stay stunned for long so try to finish your cooking as soon as possible.
1 Eggs Everywhere In Billy Hatcher
In Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg, you play as Billy, who must save the world of chickens from the evil crows. Not only is the word 'egg' in the title, but Billy's arsenal of weapons is all egg based.
You can roll your egg to an enormous size and flatten enemies, throw your eggs to damage your foes, and even bounce with your egg to crush your opponents. Billy himself also wears a chicken suit, adding to the egg themes of this game. How eggcellent!