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Can I offer you a nice egg in this trying time?
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A guide writer talking about how her favourite gaming related moment of 2025 was uncovering secrets? Who saw that coming… Seriously though, let me tell you about a little downside of my job: if we’re covering a game, or considering doing so, I have to spoil everything for myself for planning purposes. End-game boss? Spoiled. Every collectible location and what happens after you’ve collected every magic hat or whatever? Spoiled. Plot twists, because I might as well go all in at this point? Spoiled. If I don’t learn it before the game comes out, I’ll certainly know about it shortly after release thanks to research. (I learned what happened to Zelda in Tears of the Kingdom via Google Trends. Google bloody Trends.)
So it is an understatement to say I was happy when it was announced that Chapter Three and Four of Deltarune – something I had been waiting four years for – were being released the day before the Switch 2. There was absolutely no way I had the time to cover them. Not in the slightest! It guaranteed I could enjoy finding the hidden eggs all by myself.
Before we go any further, however, I must first establish two things. Firstly, minor spoilers for Deltarune ahead. (Look how nice I am compared to Google.) Secondly, when I’m talking about eggs in Deltarune, I mean literal physical eggs you can find in-game. Not an easter egg. We good? We’re good.
Eggsample 1. | Image credit: Eurogamer/tobyfox
I played Deltarune Chapter One back when it was called ‘Survey Program’ and all that was really known about it was how it was a new game from Toby Fox (developer of Undertale). There I was on Halloween night, not conducting the dark arts, but being mystified as the game transformed from what is essentially a survey to a world filled with familiar Undertale faces to being thrust into a Wonderland inspired setting. I spent a lot of time backtracking – completely lost to the desire of cracking the game’s ribs open so I could taste everything – when, during an area transition, the world fell away.
The thin path fenced in by foliage that had existed here during all of my past visits was gone. Instead, I was faced with a single tree. Unsure of what to do and unwilling to leave what was clearly a secret area, I investigated. Behind the tree, hidden by its leaves, I found a man and he gave me an egg. I left the area and, despite all of my attempts, could not revisit that tree. I did find a fridge to put the egg in, though.
Eggsample 2. | Image credit: Eurogamer/tobyfox
When Chapter 2 arrived in 2021, finding the hidden egg was one of my top priorities. I knew they were going to build into something important. Deltarune is from the creator of Undertale after all: the game where every mechanic is tied to either the plot or world building. Fox wouldn’t include these eggs – not easter eggs as we typically know them, but a clear reference to them – without it building to something. Thankfully, I wasn’t overthinking this as chapters Three and Four paid off my trust in Fox, but man did I have to work for it.
Chapter Three’s egg hunt is the most elaborate in Deltarune so far. I honestly thought I’d missed it and was mentally preparing myself for a second playthrough when, literally five minutes before the final boss, I picked a jokey line of dialogue which sent me to a room of ‘Clear Egg Importance’. What followed was a recipe of backtracking, puzzle solving and returning to a puzzle because I missed something. All caramelised with a dash of sheer luck. The relief I felt when I saw that now familiar tree was joyous. The laugh I let out when I realised I needed to complete a cryptic dialogue tree to get my egg was loud.
After the gauntlet Chapter Three put me through, I didn’t mind at all that finding Chapter Four’s egg was far easier; relying more on paying attention to the environment than anything else. It didn’t stop finding both eggs from being a rewarding process, either. I truly felt like I was uncovering something the game was actively trying to hide from me as I investigated anything that felt a little bit off or a tad unfinished, pulling the threads until I unravelled the prize. The fact that I avoided being spoiled made my success all the sweeter, especially since I now have a solid theory of what the eggs are building up to.
Eggsample 3. | Image credit: Eurogamer/tobyfox
Like I’d hoped, Fox is using the mechanic of hidden easter eggs to tell part of Deltarune’s story – be it an optional addition for those willing to pick the game apart. The areas containing the egg man and his tree have transformed from simple spaces to almost surrealist retellings of Kris’ (the character you control) childhood. Kris has the ability to hide information from the player, so these insights into their past only intensify my drive to find each egg. I have a feeling collecting all of the eggs will offer some added context to the events of Deltarune and I’m looking forward to learning what it is.
Tying a collectible hunt to the story like this is the best way to get me invested. Far better than, say, hiding hundreds upon hundreds of seeds about a map with the ultimate reward clearly being a pile of feces. It’s exactly the kind of secret hunt I was looking for this year too. Now I have to know what Kris is hiding and who the egg man is! (I highly doubt it’s Frank Reynolds.) True answers are still a way off, but I’ll bide my time watching Deltarune lore theory videos until Chapter Five hopefully arrives in 2026.