How to play
When the timer reaches 0, the chicken holding the Golden Egg wins the round. That is the whole rule.
Controls
- Move — WASD or the arrow keys
- Dash / tackle — Space
- Wing flap — E
- Chat (online) — Enter · Menu — Esc
Gamepads work too — left stick to move, A to dash, B to flap. On a phone or tablet you get a thumbstick and two buttons.
Playing together on one keyboard
Up to four people can share a keyboard. Each player gets their own keys:
- Player 1 — WASD, dash Space, flap E
- Player 2 — arrow keys, dash Enter, flap Right Shift
- Player 3 — IJKL, dash O, flap U
- Player 4 — numpad 8456, dash Num 0, flap Num +
The egg
The Golden Egg starts in the middle, the same distance from every chicken. Whoever reaches it first picks it up and immediately becomes the most popular chicken in the arena.
Holding the egg makes you glow, gives you a floating egg above your head — and makes you about 10% slower. In exchange you shrug off some knockback and your wing flap hits harder. You are slower, not helpless.
Stealing it
Only a dash knocks the egg loose. Walking into someone just jostles them, so possession never changes by accident. Land a dash on the holder and the egg pops out, bounces and rolls — then it is anyone's.
Two things stop that turning into chaos:
- For about half a second after a drop, nobody can pick the egg up. You will see a shrinking ring around it.
- The chicken who knocked it loose is locked out slightly longer than everyone else, so a steal creates a scramble instead of an instant handover.
Getting hit stuns you briefly and then makes you immune for a moment, so you can never be stun-locked into irrelevance.
The wing flap
A short-range shove with a longer cooldown than the dash. It pushes chickens (and a loose egg) away from you. The egg holder's flap is stronger — it is your main defensive tool when three chickens are converging on you at once.
Chaos events
Every 12–20 seconds the farm does something stupid: a tornado, a butter floor, an eagle, decoy eggs, falling chickens, a speed frenzy, a giant broom. Every event is telegraphed with a warning marker before it does anything.
Events move chickens around; they never hand anyone the egg, and none of them fire in the closing seconds. Luck creates the situation, you still have to play it.
Winning
Hold the egg when the timer hits zero and you take the round. First to the required number of round wins takes the match.
If the egg happens to be loose exactly as the horn sounds, the clock stops and the round goes to overtime: the next chicken to grab the egg wins it, immediately. Those are the good rounds.