Review of “Egg Hunter” by Kiara Falk, David Falk, and Lagomorph Rampant Studios

Score: 88/100 (8.8 out of 10)

Egg Hunter is a cute, quirky, handmade indie interactive novel / point-and-click adventure about magical rabbits, missing Eggies, fairy-glen economics, ingredient collecting, suspicious warehouses, egg vans, transformation unguents, elixirs, carrots as currency, and a glen that desperately needs saving. Yes, you read that correctly.

This is not some slick, big-budget fantasy RPG with cinematic voice acting, orchestral boss music, and a brooding protagonist staring into the rain while questioning the moral cost of destiny for 47 hours. Nope. This is a small, whimsical, obviously personal Ren’Py game where a winged rabbit named Gwenni needs help restoring fairy magic after her Eggies are stolen by Procyon, and the player must clean up the glen, gather ingredients, purchase eggs, barter with oddball rabbit merchants, and learn how to create new collector Eggies.

And honestly? There is something charming about that.

The game opens with a colorful title screen featuring two anthropomorphic rabbits in a forest glen. One is a pink-winged, wand-wielding fairy rabbit, while the other looks like a bunny scientist or exterminator equipped with a net and potion bottle. The title screen asks, “Can you find what was lost and save the glen?” That question pretty much establishes the game’s mission. Something has gone wrong. The glen is in danger. Gwenni needs help. And the player (who we named "Stannis" and "Tywin Lannister" in different playthroughs) becomes the unlikely assistant in this very strange little rescue operation. By the way, despite typing our name as "Tywin Lannister," it shortened it to "Tywin Lann" the whole rest of the playthrough, which was a slight bummer

At first, Egg Hunter seems extremely simple. Gwenni explains that all her lovely Eggies are gone and that the glen is a mess. The first task is straightforward: click six items in the glen that can be used as ingredients. There are weeds, sarracenia, crab grass, cattails, flowers, honeycombs, mushrooms, butterflies, blueberries, and other collectible objects scattered across painterly outdoor scenes. The player clicks around, collects ingredients, and earns items that can later be sold, traded, or used.

But the more the game opens up, the more obvious it becomes that Egg Hunter has more going on than its modest presentation might initially suggest.

The tone of this game is both interesting and strange. It's slightly dark, even in the absence of death and destruction. It gave us Watership Down vibes with the rabbits and things like the smuggler and the unscrupulous scientist with the sketchy lab. Speaking of the lab, it's full of cockroaches and slightly unsettling news headlines. Well, there's one about Godzilla, which is kinda funny, so it's not all gloomy.

The music isn't usually magical and cheerful, like you'd expect from a game about rabbits. It's not unpleasant. Instead, it's more like elevator music. It has this really waiting-room-sound to it, not enough to demand attention and not enough to distract.

There is a map. There are multiple locations. There is Shorty’s Warehouse, Jason’s Van, Gwenni’s Boutique, the Glen Public Library (we had trouble clicking on the books or whatever we were supposed to be clicking on there), Mooki’s Lab, and the Clean Glen. There are ingredients with assigned value. There are carrots functioning as currency. There are eggs that can be purchased or traded. There are elixirs, rose water, blue burpee, pink fairy elixir, blue pixie elixir, and an Unguent of Transformation. There are different egg types, including chicken eggs, turkey eggs, and apparently more exotic possibilities. There are choices. There are many possible endings.

That last part matters. Gwenni directly tells the player that the game has “many possible endings,” and that gives Egg Hunter a stronger sense of replay value than expected. For a small indie game, that is a real strength. The structure encourages experimentation: gather different ingredients, make different purchases, try different eggs, and see where the player’s decisions lead.

One of the game’s best surprises is its bizarre little economy. Carrots are not just a cute snack joke. They are the primary currency of the fairy glen. Shorty wants to charge the player five carrots for a tour. Charlie at Shorty’s Warehouse says Shorty sells “quality merchandise, priced to move,” then casually admits that they buy Gwenni ingredients and resell them on the black market. Jason operates a van labeled “Jason’s Van Ultimate Egg Emporium,” which is as ridiculous as it is memorable. Willow works at Gwenni’s Boutique and offers chipper customer service. Mooki runs a lab and can concoct elixirs for a price.

This gives the game a very odd sense of rabbit capitalism, and we mean that affectionately.

The humor is not polished sitcom humor. It is stranger than that. It is homemade, eccentric, and occasionally unexpectedly funny. Gwenni calling Shorty “such a mercenary” after he asks how much she is paying her helper is genuinely amusing because it feels like such an adult complaint in a world of magical rabbits and missing collector eggs. Jason being asked for “Phoenix eggs” or “bald eagle eggs” adds another silly layer. Willow snorting and calling someone a smuggler gives the dialogue a tiny bit of bite. Even Gwenni yelling, “You’re a big, blue meany!!!” has a goofy storybook charm. What's kinda funny is that even if you tell Gwenni you're not helping her with her problem, she'll call you a meanie and make you do it anyway, then go about as if things are perfectly normal. It kinda makes your choices seem inconsequential in a sense, but at least you get to make them.

The game’s writing is simple, but it often works because the world is so specific. We liked the little details about sarracenia, crab grass, ingredients, fairy magic, elixirs, and egg-making requirements. To create a simple Eggie, Gwenni explains that the player needs three components: the Unguent of Transformation, an egg elixir, and an egg. Different Eggies require different eggs, and the first requires a chicken egg. That kind of structure helps the game feel more like an actual adventure than just a sequence of cute rabbit conversations.

The character designs are also memorable. Gwenni, with her pink wings, wand, and soft expression, is immediately likable. Shorty looks like a rabbit entrepreneur, scientist, exterminator, and questionable businessman all rolled into one. Jason, Willow, Charlie, Cricket, and Mooki each bring a different tone to the world, whether through a van, boutique, warehouse, library, or lab. The game clearly wants the glen to feel like a small community with its own rules, businesses, personalities, and problems.

That said, Egg Hunter is very rough around the edges and seemingly unfinished. It crashed on us a few times.

The art style has heart, but it is uneven. Some character sprites are cute and expressive, especially Gwenni and Shorty. Some locations, like Mooki’s Lab and Gwenni’s Boutique, are visually distinct and memorable. However, many scenes also look collage-like, with objects that do not always match in style, scale, lighting, or sharpness. Shorty’s Warehouse, which we talked about briefly before, is probably the clearest example. It is packed with gold barrels, newspapers, ingredient icons, chemical products, posters, and merchandise, which makes it fun to look at, but it also feels visually crowded and inconsistent. It doesn't help that the characters, while cute in isolation, often stare into blank space and don't express any range of emotions no matter what's going on. A character will call you a "meanie!" or say something sharp like "don't waste my time!" but not show it on their face at all.

Oh, and there's a dragon and some bees later on, which is cool! And it's really cute too. A really interesting mix of cuteness and darkness.

The backgrounds have a painterly, handmade quality, but the UI does not always blend well with them. The bright pink bottom menu is functional and easy to see, but it can be distracting, especially when layered over busy environments. The map is useful, but visually crude. Some choice menus appear awkwardly placed or visually harsh. This is one of those games where the creative intent is obvious, but the visual polish is not always there.

The bigger concern is technical stability.

During the playthrough, the game hit a Ren’Py exception screen with a KeyError in the game code. That is a serious issue. In a visual novel / point-and-click adventure where players are encouraged to explore routes, visit different locations, collect ingredients, and pursue multiple endings, a crash is not just an inconvenience. It damages trust. Players need to feel like they can experiment without breaking the game.

That is especially important here because Egg Hunter seems to rely on branching paths and item-based progression. If players are supposed to try different combinations, buy different items, and uncover different endings, then stability is essential. A hard crash interrupts the charm and reminds the player that the game still needs debugging.

By the way, we lost progress a bunch of times by accidentally going back. Weird things happened like we'd click on Shorty and get Gwenni's dialogue instead.

Still, we do not want to be too harsh because Egg Hunter also does quite a few things right. It has a clear identity. It has a sweet premise. It has a strange but memorable cast. It has more interactivity than expected. It gives the player things to collect, purchase, trade, and create. It has a map, locations, inventory icons, dialogue choices, and a sense of progression. It is not just a static visual novel. It is trying to be a little adventure game inside a fairy-tale rabbit world. And that ambition counts.

Egg Hunter feels like the kind of project made by people who genuinely wanted to build their own odd little world. It is not sleek. It is not seamless. It is not going to compete visually with the best indie adventure games on the market. But it has a sincerity that is hard to fake. There is love here. There is effort here. There is personality here.

This is the kind of game where we can say, “Yes, it needs work,” while still appreciating that it exists.

The best parts of Egg Hunter are its charming premise, its weird little carrot-based economy, its multiple-location structure, its item collection, and its willingness to be unapologetically strange. The weakest parts are its inconsistent visuals, distracting UI, uneven polish, and the technical crash we encountered.

This is a sweet, eccentric, homemade-feeling indie adventure with enough charm and oddball creativity to make it memorable, even if its rough presentation and technical issues keep it from fully hatching into something great.

It's a cute, strange, sincere fairy-glen adventure full of magical rabbits, missing Eggies, questionable business practices, and carrot-based commerce. It needs more polish and debugging, but it also has heart, humor, and a surprisingly involved little world.


Check it out on Steam!