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Arctic Eggs and CHICKENS ramble
There is a ton of themes and stuff and different interpretations going on in this game but Im going to just talk about the chickens an the stuff i noticed.
To start off, the chickens are modeled after a red sex link production hens a type of hen bred for egg production at the cost of their lifespan. Battery hens rarely make it past their second birthday. Im not sure if the devs chose this breed on purpose or if it was just what a generic chicken looked like in their mind. Maybe they chose this breed because a white chicken would be washed out in the arctic environment.
The game starts with the player looking at the chickens in the cages and it brings up a lot of questions. Why are there so many chickens? Why are we the player character here? After you walk through this poultry prison you are tasked with the job of a poultry prepper meaning you cook eggs. It doesn't matter how many eggs you drop there is always more to fall into your pan. Its interesting to me that there is a surplus of chickens and eggs but their is apparently a food shortage going on in the game.
I think the player character has much more in common with the battery hens then they realize. It doesn't matter though you are greeted with the first line in the game, "Can you fry eggs ontop of Mount Everest?" It seems like and irrelevant question and in a way it is.
This game is quick to show you that you have very little freedom, same with the people you are cooking for. A lot of people are hungry and its not really for food is it? You cook cigs, bullets, beer, sardine cans and cockroaches. Eggs are not the only thing on the menu.
As you play the game multiple people tell you they are caring for the chickens but they are worried about what happens to them when they get taken away. Many seem quite distraught that they aren't being told what is happening to them especially since eating poultry has been banned (but not eggs). Some people still think about eating the chickens but are quickly disgusted by it soon after. One person even said they all "taste like tomatos now"
We can almost see this worry about caring for something and having it be taken away paralleled to the robot prisoners and their cockroaches, one of them weeping over the roaches you cooked for them like they were their own children. We can assume people also get taken away in this game, we see the prisons and the discarded brain in the garbage after all. Maybe this isnt about losing the chickens or the roaches? Maybe the poeple raising the chickens wish to know if they are being eaten?
There is no privacy in this game, people squat over toilets full of feces in front of everyone and the prisoners do the same as the guards watch. It reminds me of the conditions of a chicken battery cage, cramped and full of feces. These people are living very similar lives to the chickens with little freedom to choose how they live.
After feeding the necessary amount of people you go and meet the Saint of Six Stomachs, the supposed ruler/dictator of this place. He is an amalgam of organs and.. chickens? To me It is implied 3 of his stomachs are hens. You see these trapped chickens right before you see his face. Perhaps this is why chickens are banned because the Saint is made up of chickens, maybe this is where the chickens who are taken away go. This part of the Saint's anatomy fascinates me. You go and cook the hens 6 eggs.
Afterwards you are met with the Saint's head eerily making eye contact from their glass container. After cooking his egg he asks "Can you fry eggs ontop of Mount Everest?" He says he never thought about it since it was irrelevant to him. He is right about that, how would someone in his situation even think about doing that, like you and the chickens he is trapped. Just like to the player character it is a nonsense question that is irrelevant.
The credits roll after you grasp the saints hand, you pilot some kind of fighter plane to a mountain where you have a serious crash landing. As you and your friend look over the wreckage (where you may have died in tbh) you ignore your objective of frying eggs since you abandoned your pan at the Saint's and climb the mountain finding a chicken out of her cage perched on a rock. Maybe the chicken is here because you need an egg or maybe she is here because she made the choice to be. It is quite likely the player character will die on the mountain or is already dead.
The game ends after you slowly reach out and pet the chicken.
This game is absurd and challenging. The surreal vibes can kind of make it easy to not take it seriously especially with all the silly dialog but there is something very special about this game and what it is saying. I think it really "gets" chickens as a symbol as well and it was nice to see a game really use them for its story.
#chicken#arctic eggs#indie games#its going to sit in my brain forever and ever#yes it is worth 10 bucks ffs#spoliers
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Arctic Eggs (2024)
#Arctic Eggs#arcticeggsedit#gamingedit#usermichi#userksusha#theashenphoenix#miyku#thelvadams#useranya#smoking tw#my gifs#here's your 500 cigarettes
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Can you How Fish Is Mouthwashing ontop of Mount Everest?
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tonight i shall cook my illegal eggs for the enjoyful mouths of my dear consumers.
8PM EST @ http://twitch.tv/socpens
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#arctic eggs#presented without comment because the bullet clinking into the pan made me laugh so hard i am lightheaded
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Y'all should play Arctic Eggs, the game where you cook eggs in Antarctica
#arctic eggs#this is said by a guy who was throwing bullets into your frying pan while you cooked him food by the way#also the soundtrack is great
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🍳🐔🚬
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‘Arctic Eggs’, an indie game from ‘The Water Museum’.
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arctic eggs is a work of art
#arctic eggs#you should really play arctic eggs#this is just a small sample of the amazing writing in this game
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Dungeon meshi x my new favorite game….
Go download Arctic Eggs on steam NOWWWW
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🍳 Arctic Eggs (2024) ❄️
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ranboo is live! playing “arctic eggs”!
[title: “Cooking illegal eggs”]
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i’m always saying this
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live now cooking illegal eggs
https://www.twitch.tv/socpens
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Arctic Eggs
Steam / Itch.io
#arctic eggs#the water museum#indie games#sci-fi games#simulation games#screenshots#steam#itch.io#gif
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