Eggstra! Eggstra! — Notes from inside the Eggverse.

Your next climb starts here.

Try a wall swap before your next Shadow Step run. Eggstra now explains the ways to play, brings your friends straight into a room, and keeps the date beside the update you are reading.

Shadow Step's moonlit alley, with an egg on one wall and its shadow waiting on the other.

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 friends

Your own night shift

Just you and your shadow. No bots. Keep climbing, then chase a new personal best.

Play solo

On 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.

  • New: A little warm-up before the climb. Shadow Step posts now have a Ways to play guide. Try swapping your egg and shadow, check the keyboard and phone controls, and open the power guide to see what updrafts, surges and shields do.
  • Improved: Bring your crew, or take a solo shift. Play with friends opens a Shadow Step room for 2–4 players, ready for your invitations. Play solo starts your own run with no bots. Both options sit beside the rules, so the next step is easy to find.
  • Fixed: The date follows your reading. The patch-note sidebar now follows the update on screen as you scroll down or back up, including long posts and images that finish loading later. Updates published on the same day also show their titles so you can tell them apart.
  • Improved: Answers that are easier to find. Game rules and play options are available in the page text as soon as it loads. Article details, images and share descriptions now stay in sync when you move between Eggstra stories and patch notes.