Egg Thief

Prospectus

Sneak up on a sleeping guardian, grab its egg and carry it home before it wakes up. Steal An Egg! is a 3D stealth chase game you play with one finger: push the stick a little to tiptoe in silence, push it all the way to sprint – and make noise. Common eggs lie at the edge of the nest. The rare ones sit right under the guardian's nose, and they are heavy. Every egg you bring home hatches into a pet that earns coins, and coins open the next zone: a yeti in the snow, a fire dragon on the lava, a snake in the desert, a gummy bear in candy land and an alien in space. Other thieves raid the same nests – while a guardian chases one of them, its eggs are yours. Rebirth to start a new world with guardians that patrol and watch, keep your collection and fill it up to Cosmic rarity.

How it plays

Mobile: drag anywhere on the screen to move. A short drag sneaks quietly, a long drag runs. Desktop: WASD or arrow keys to move, hold Shift to sneak. You can also click and drag with the mouse. Eggs are picked up and delivered automatically.

Opening an account with this game takes one press: Open the holding, above, and it loads on this page itself — nothing downloads and no form stands between you and the first decision. It is drawn for a flexible screen and takes its instructions from mouse, keyboard or touch, as the game prefers. It adjusts itself to upright and wide screens alike, so phone, tablet and desktop all present it properly. If a fullscreen control is offered, take it — a growing enterprise deserves the whole desk.

Analyst's notes for management holdings

• Fix the queue before the product. In management games the line out the door is rarely a quality problem; it is a staffing and layout problem wearing a quality costume.
• Hire for the hour you cannot cover. Your own attention is the scarcest employee in any management sim — spend money wherever it buys your attention back.
• Read the complaint, not the rating. Averages hide the one broken station that is quietly taxing every customer; the written grumble names it for free.

Egg Thief — questions from the readership

What does it cost to open Egg Thief?

Nothing, at any point. The holding is free from the first click to the last upgrade — no account to open, no download to wait for, no paywall filed anywhere in its pages. The advertising around this page is what pays the bookkeeping.

What kind of game is Egg Thief, exactly?

We file it on the Management shelf of the ledger. It is a browser game through and through — the prospectus above is the publisher's own summary of what the game asks of you and what it gives back.

Can I play Egg Thief on a phone or tablet?

Yes — it runs in the browser on phones and tablets just as it does on a computer. It adjusts itself to upright and wide screens alike, so phone, tablet and desktop all present it properly.

Is there anything to download or install first?

Nothing at all. Egg Thief is an HTML5 game: press the open button and it loads on this very page, and closing the tab leaves nothing behind on your device.

Closing entry

Finished the audit, or still mid-season? The full Management shelf is one click away — One hundred and eighty-one exercises in being in charge: rotas, stock, queues, budgets and the eternal discovery that the bottleneck was you. Management games for people who enjoy a tidy operation.