Guidebook author reveals how her favorite gaming moment of 2025 was revealing secrets? Who saw this coming… But seriously, let me tell you a little downside of my job: if we're covering a game, or going to do so, I have to ruin everything for myself for planning purposes. Boss at the end of the game? Spoiled. All the collectible locations and what happens after you collect all the magic hats or something else? Spoiled. Plot twists because at this point I might go all in? Spoiled. If I don't find out about it before the game comes out, I'll definitely find out about it soon after release through research. (I found out what happened to Zelda in Tears of the Kingdom via Google Trends. Google damn trends.)
So it would be an understatement to say that I was glad when it was announced that chapters three and four Deltarune – what I had been waiting for four years – were released the day before Switch 2. I had absolutely no time to cover them. Not in the least! This ensured that I could find the hidden eggs on my own.
However, before we go any further, I must first establish two things. First, there are minor spoilers for Deltarune ahead. (Look how good I am compared to Google.) Secondly, when I talk about eggs in Deltarune, I'm literally talking about the physical eggs you can find in the game. Not an Easter egg. Are we okay? We're doing well.
I played the first chapter of Deltarune when it was called “The Survey Program” and all that was known about it was that it was a new game from Toby Fox (developer Undertale). There I was on Halloween night, not dabbling in the dark arts, but was perplexed by how the game had morphed from what was essentially a review into a world filled with familiar Undertale faces to a Wonderland-inspired setting. I spent a lot of time going back – having completely lost the desire to crack open the game's ribs so I could taste everything – when, midway between areas, the world disappeared.
The thin, foliage-lined path that had existed here on all my previous visits had disappeared. Instead, I encountered a single tree. Not knowing what to do, and not wanting to leave the apparently secret area, I began to investigate. I found a man behind a tree, hidden by its leaves, and he gave me an egg. I left this place and, despite all my attempts, was unable to visit this tree again. However, I found a refrigerator to put the egg in.
When Chapter 2 came out in 2021, finding the hidden egg was one of my top priorities. I knew they were going to create something important. After all, Deltarune comes from the creator of Undertale: a game where every mechanic is tied to either story or world-building. Fox wouldn't include these eggs – not Easter eggs as we usually know them, but a clear reference to them – without it leading to something. Thankfully, I didn't think too much about it as chapters three and four redeemed my trust in Fox, but damn, I had to work for it.
The egg hunt in Chapter 3 is by far the hardest in Deltarune. Honestly, I thought I'd missed it and was mentally preparing for a second playthrough when, literally five minutes before the final boss, I picked a humorous line of dialogue that sent me into the “Importance of a Clear Egg” room. What followed was a recipe for going back, solving the puzzle, and going back to the puzzle because I missed something. Everything is caramelized thanks to pure luck. The relief I felt when I saw this now familiar tree was joyful. The laugh I let out when I realized I had to complete the mysterious dialogue tree to get the egg was loud.
After going through the ordeal in Chapter 3, I didn't mind at all that finding the egg from Chapter 4 was much easier; relying more on attention to the environment than anything else. This did not stop us from finding both eggs – a useful process. I truly felt like I was discovering something the game was actively trying to hide from me as I explored anything that seemed a little off or unfinished, tugging at strings until I unraveled the prize. The fact that I avoided being corrupted made my success even sweeter, especially because I now have a solid theory about what the eggs are.
As I had hoped, Fox uses the hidden Easter egg mechanic to tell part of Deltarune's story – whether as an optional extra for those who want to pick the game apart. The areas containing the egg man and his tree have evolved from simple spaces into an almost surreal retelling of Chris's (the character you control) childhood. Chris has the ability to hide information from the player, so this information about their past only makes me more determined to find every egg. I have a feeling that collecting all the eggs will add additional context to the events of Deltarune, and I'm looking forward to finding out what that is.
Linking a collectible hunt to a story like this is the best way to get attention. Much better than, say, hiding hundreds and hundreds of seeds on the map, with the end reward obviously being a bunch of poop. This is exactly the kind of secret hunt I was looking for this year. Now I need to know what Chris is hiding and who the egg man is! (I highly doubt it's Frank Reynolds.) The real answers are still a long way off, but I'll wait by watching videos of Deltarune's lore theory until, hopefully, chapter 5 comes out in 2026.
