Shadow Step takes the night shift.
By the Eggverse team · · 2 min read
Ways to play Shadow Step
Shadow Step is a free browser game where you run up two walls and swap places with your shadow to dodge obstacles. Play alone or with friends in a 2–4 player room on the same course. Climb as high as you can before your egg cracks.
Bring your egg crew
2–4 players, one moonlit alley. Create a room, share the invite link and ready up together. If you crack, watch the survivors finish their climb.
Play with friendsYour own night shift
Just you and your shadow. No bots. Keep climbing, then chase a new personal best.
Play soloOn a keyboard
Press Space to swap walls. Press P to pause solo play.
On your phone
Tap Swap to change walls. Play with your phone upright or sideways; desktop works too.
What do updrafts, surges and shields do?
- Updraft
- Catch a teal vent for a brief burst of wind and a faster climb.
- Shadow Surge
- A rare pickup that blasts you higher and lets you pass through danger for a short time.
- Shadow shield
- A rare pickup that blocks one hit. After it breaks, your next hit cracks your egg.
With friends, one egg grabbing a pickup gives that power to every living player. Cracked eggs stay cracked.
Swap places with your shadow and race up a moonlit alley. Shadow Step is now an endless wall runner with falling enemies, faster climbs, true solo play and rare powers that help your friends.
Your shadow is your escape route.
Shadow Sprint becomes Shadow Step: an endless climb between two apartment walls. Press Space or tap Swap to trade places with your own shadow and escape a hazard. Your egg runs sideways with its feet against the wall, using the same original character artwork.
Higher means harder.
The climb gradually gets faster and obstacles get closer together as you gain height. One unprotected hit cracks your egg. There is no finish line: keep going until your shell gives out, then try to beat your own last climb.
Trouble drops in from above.
Watch for warnings before diving pigeons and angry plant pots fall into your path. Flaming toasters, haunted shutters, swinging signs and fans join the climb, all set against a pixel-art alley full of warm windows, balconies and moonlight.
Solo means solo. Friends share the climb.
Play solo with just your egg and its shadow, with no bots filling the screen. Or bring one, two or three friends into the same course. If an egg cracks, the survivors keep moving; the last survivor can keep climbing until they fall too.
Catch a draft. Treasure a lucky find.
Teal vents give a visible burst of wind and a faster climb. Rare Shadow Surge pickups blast you through danger, while rare shields block one hit. In a friends room, one player collecting a power grants it to every living teammate. Each egg gets its own protection; cracked eggs stay cracked.
The whole night shift fits your screen.
Portrait and landscape keep the illustrated alley and the original eggs. Height, pace, the menu and the Swap control stay inside the game. Keyboard keycaps make Space to swap and P to pause solo play easy to spot.
Every release gets its own notes.
New public releases now bring their update to Eggstra! Eggstra! and patch notes together, so you can see what changed without waiting for a separate news post. Older updates keep their own links.