Eggcavation

Eggcavation is a first-person digging game with a giant egg as the worksite. Chip away its plates, fill a bucket with shards and sell them at the terminal. Earnings buy stronger tools and equipment, but repeated hits on one spot can make the egg angry enough to throw you across the room.

Learn the digging and selling loop

On desktop, move with WASD, look with the mouse and hold the left mouse button to hit. Q or the right mouse button uses dynamite, and E operates the lift. The number keys 1–7 open the shop and menus; within the shop, 1–8 select purchases. Esc pauses. On mobile, use the left side to move, drag the right side to look and follow the HIT, BOOM and LIFT buttons.

Begin with a short period of ordinary digging so you can read the bucket and the egg's reaction. The supplier describes a payout that rises as the egg becomes angrier, until it wakes and sends you flying. Watch the current feedback before committing to more hits in the same place. More potential money and a manageable digging position are separate considerations.

Choose equipment for the next layer

The tool options described by the supplier include a pickaxe, sledgehammer, jackhammer, plasma drill and laser cutter. Dynamite, drones and other gear provide further purchases. Inspect the options actually available at the terminal instead of assuming that every tool is already owned or that one purchase order fits every stage.

The route goes through shell, membrane and gold-veined ore toward a glowing core that you can hatch. The published overview describes ten unusual specimens before increasingly large eggs continue the progression. It also lists boss fights, random events and hatchling pets. Respond to the event on screen rather than treating a power cut or an eggquake as part of the ordinary hitting rhythm.

Keep a clear next objective

Decide whether the next trip is for another bucket sale, an equipment purchase or progress through the current layer. That gives you a reason to stop digging and check the terminal. The supplier states that progress saves automatically, but read the current game's feedback before leaving a session.

For destruction driven by momentum instead of tool strikes, try Crash Core. Its rolling core, Scrap and upgrades make a different challenge from managing Eggcavation's giant egg and its temper.