Arctic Eggs

In a standard PC setup, the player walks around with WASD, while the pan is controlled entirely with the mouse. With the exception of live ammunition that appears in some of the later challenges, everything dropped into the pan must remain there for the duration of the challenge. Different things have to be cooked in different ways — for example, eggs and bacon have to be cooked on both sides, while tins of fish must be heated until they pop open and the fish fall out to be cooked. Each challenge ends when everything is cooked.

Some challenges have unique elements, such as a request to cook a whole stingray, or a request to help an aspiring chef whose pan controls are inverted from the player's own. The game also has a sandbox mode, in which the player can build custom cooking challenges and attempt to complete them.

The game begins with the player character being lectured by a guard for trying to escape. They are then made a Poultry Prepper and sent out into the unnamed city to cook things on request for its occupants. The people will also talk to the player, sharing surreal musings and occasional history details about the story's world.

The city is overseen by a mysterious entity known as the Saint of Six Stomachs, about whom the residents express a mixture of respect and fear. The Saint is responsible for a poultry ban, and armed guards stand around cages of chickens at various points around the city.

Reviews have been positive, praising both the game's atmosphere and its mechanics. Zoey Handley of Destructoid wrote that "You might wonder how much gameplay you could really stretch out of a single Mario Party mini-game, but it turns out it's a lot." Writing for TheGamer, Ben Sledge described the play experience as "unsettling"; both he and Polygon's Cass Marshall wrote that the egg-flipping mechanic was unique among games they'd played.

Per TechRaptor, "Underneath all this humor and oddity is a shockingly well-made game, from Arctic Eggs' music, art design, and most importantly gameplay."