Ells Tales: Egg

POSITIVE POINTS:

- “Ells Tales: Egg” is a survival horror clicker that challenges you to save a chicken egg while fighting for your life. A simple concept, but a lot of fun.
- You wake up in a chicken coop, chained up. In front of you is a game machine with a chicken egg and a counter.
- You must use your wits and attention to free yourself from this strange place, if possible with your hands intact.
- The game features retro-style graphics that add a nostalgic touch.

NEGATIVE POINTS:

- It is not a game for all audiences because of its rawness.
- The chickens can be very scary.

CONCLUSIONS:

“Ells Tales: Egg” is a skill clicker that combines elements of horror in a unique environment.
Your goal is to get out of the place alive and to do this, at first, you must press the button at the right time so that the egg jumps and does not break.

EVALUATION:

8/10.
Despite its simplicity, the game offers a unique and exciting experience that is sure to appeal to those who enjoy demonstrating their skill with a focus on horror in the background.

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Being Jazz Chicken I felt I needed to play this game for Spooktober.
The concept of the game is good but the execution was pretty bad.
The hand icon to interact gets in the way which prevents you from pressing the button to make the egg jump causing you to die. So you have to look away from the egg, BUT if a chicken runs across the screen as you press the button to bounce the egg, the game thinks you want to interact with the chicken and so prevents you pressing the button and instead makes you shake your head as in "No, I cant grab the chicken"
I didn't even want the chicken!

Once free, naturally you are going to want to pull the lever. But if you do it breaks the egg thus getting you killed and you have to start all over again.....this I find to be a ♥♥♥♥ move by the creator.
The shotgun mechanics are garbage. Naturally you will want to press left click to shoot. But instead it pumps the shotgun removing the 1 and only shell that's loaded. As there is NO checkpoint after beating the egg game I feel the shotgun should have unlimited ammo. It would have been very satisfying to shoot all the chickens and the random "creatures" after beating the game lol. Right click is the only way to shoot. There is no cursor so you need to be spot on when shooting, otherwise you have to start the game all over again.

At this point after restarting multiple times until I finally land the shot, the egg jumping game has become very monotonous at this point. Once escaped the ending is completely random. If you solve the puzzles you are treated to the true ending which equally makes no sense and is just completely random. It left me unsatisfied. Seeing your character leave the building and a fade to black would have been more satisfactory.
Solving the puzzles was like grinding my teeth too as the hand icon wouldn't always appear. The saw blade would activate even though my hand is free which I don't know why the 2nd button is still an option at that point. That mixed with the gun mechanics caused me to restart multiple times.

The graphics, sounds and overall ambience was great. But how it was all put together made me want to peck my own eyes out and deep fry my nuggets in a vat of boiling oil.

This game reminds you that your BALLS are the moste precious thing you have.