Arcade-Style Shooter with ‘Very Positive’ Reviews Is Free to Play on Steam

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Steam’s newest game, Evil Egg, is a free-to-play twin-stick shooter that’s getting good feedback. It joins a growing number of successful indie shooters on Steam, like Greedland, Dead Estate, and Kill Knight. Evil Egg stands out with its fast-paced, arcade-style gameplay, which clearly takes inspiration from classic games from the 1980s.

Twin-stick shooter games usually let you move your character with one stick and aim with the other, firing bullets automatically – that’s the basic way they’re played. This setup became popular with arcade games and then moved to home consoles when controllers with two thumbsticks were introduced. Evil Egg uses this same classic control scheme, bringing players back to the golden age of arcades.

Evil Egg Is a Top-Down Twin-Stick Shooter Inspired by Arcade Machines

The Steam page for Evil Egg says it’s inspired by classic ’80s arcade games, but the developer, Ivy Sly, presents a more captivating story. The game is designed to feel like a rediscovered, notoriously difficult arcade title, supposedly based on the last remaining Evil Egg machine. However, this backstory is likely fictional, created to emphasize the game’s retro style. There’s no evidence a real Evil Egg arcade game ever existed; the Steam release appears to be a brand new game that launched on October 30, 2025. Luckily for gamers, Evil Egg is available for free on Steam and has received overwhelmingly positive reviews, making it a game worth checking out.

Evil Egg uses flashing lights and strobe effects, which could cause problems for people sensitive to light.

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In terms of gameplay, players maneuver a 2D shape and destroy enemies close by. It looks a lot like Geometry Wars, a well-known twin-stick shooter. The developer, Ivy Sly, says Evil Egg has endless levels and online leaderboards, which should keep fans of the shoot ’em up genre engaged for hours as they try to beat their best scores.

Developer Ivy Sly had a big hit on Steam last year with their 2D strategy game, Your Only Move Is HUSTLE, which received overwhelmingly positive reviews from over 30,000 players. Because of that success, their new game, Evil Egg, is expected to gain a lot of attention, and its free-to-play model should help it become popular and attract a dedicated community.

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2025-11-02 19:49