How to play Squish Egg
One tap. The whole game is deciding when.
You are an egg falling onto a springboard. It bows under your weight, then throws you back up. The instant you tap while it is compressed decides where you land next. That is the entire loop: land, squish, tap, fly.
Controls
- Tap anywhere on the screen — or press Space on a keyboard.
- There is nothing else. No swipe, no hold, no second button.
- On the game-over screen, tapping anywhere starts a new run instantly.
The one rule that explains everything
Your launch speed never changes. A badly timed tap does not make you weaker, and it never leaves you short of the next platform's height. It changes the direction you leave in, so you drift sideways and miss.
This is deliberate. It means every death has the same cause — you tapped at the wrong moment — instead of the game quietly deciding a jump was impossible. If you missed, you can always see why.
Reading the board
Two things tell you what is about to happen, and both are visible before you tap:
- Tilt — how the platform is angled tells you where you are aimed. A tilted board is not harder, it is pointing somewhere else.
- Thickness — a thick board is stiff and squishes fast, so your window arrives sooner. A thin one takes its time.
Board thickness changes from platform to platform on purpose. You cannot find one rhythm and tap along to it forever — a perfect metronome stalls out early, while a player who actually reads each landing goes far past it. The game is asking you to look, not to keep time.
How a landing is graded
| Grade | What it means |
|---|---|
| DEAD CENTER | Practically perfect. Cosmetic bragging rights. |
| PERFECT | Holds your combo. This is the one to chase. |
| GOOD | Safe landing, combo resets. |
| SAFE | You stayed on. Barely tidy. |
| CLUTCH | Landed within millimetres of the edge. Time slows on the way in. |
Your score is simply the number of platforms you cleared. There are no multipliers, so everyone's 83 means the same 83. That is what makes comparing scores worth anything.
Things that show up later
- Moving platforms sway side to side. They can break a combo but a well-timed tap will never die on one — the sway is capped for exactly that reason.
- Shrinking platforms narrow the moment you land on them.
- Sectors arrive every 25 platforms. The sky changes as you climb, so you can see how far you have come without reading the number.
Every modifier is labelled one platform before it matters. Nothing is sprung on you.
Getting better
- Tap at full compression — the deepest point of the bow, not the moment you touch down.
- Watch the platform edge. It lights up while your window is open.
- Early and late are equally survivable, and the window is the same width on every platform however it is tilted. If a tilted board feels harder, it is because of where it is aiming you, not because your timing got stricter.
- Your first few landings draw a closing ring around the egg. It touches the shell at exactly the right instant. It fades away once you have the feel for it.
Play with your friends
A crew is a private leaderboard for one group of people — a group chat, an office, a family. One person creates it and shares the link; anyone who taps that link is in. No account, no sign-up.
It works because of the daily egg: everyone in a crew plays the identical run, so a crew rank compares like with like. On a random level it would mean nothing.
- Open crew from the title screen to create one or join with a code.
- After a run you see where you sit — #2 of 7 — and who is just ahead of you.
- The crew screen shows today's board, who won yesterday, how many days in a row everyone has played, and who took the most days this week.
A group of eight is the point. On a global board a new player is up against the whole world and has no real reason to push for one more platform. In a crew, anyone can top the day — and everyone can see it.
One egg a day
Every player in the world gets the same egg, chosen by the date, and it changes at midnight UTC. Play it as many times as you like — attempts are not limited. Your best for that day is what counts, what the leaderboard keeps, and what you share.
Come back tomorrow and your streak grows. If everyone in your crew plays, the crew streak grows too.
There is deliberately only one mode. Unlimited attempts at a shared daily egg already give you both things a second mode could — as much play as you want, and a score that means the same to everyone.