What happened to Egg Breaker?

The short answer

Egg Breaker was made by DJArts Games, a studio founded in 2008 in Victoria, British Columbia by David Whittaker and Justin Stocks. Egg Breaker was their very first title, and it did well enough to spawn a whole series — Egg Breaker 2, Egg Drop, and finally Egg Breaker Adventures, which folded the multiplier-and-prize chase of the original into the stage progression of the sequel. In July 2014 the studio renamed itself Codename Entertainment, which is still operating today.

Here is the part almost everyone gets wrong: nobody shut Egg Breaker down. On 17 May 2016 the studio announced it would stop making new content for the series — it shipped one last monkey and one last hat — but it was explicit that the game itself was staying: the existing game would stay on indefinitely, progress would not be lost, and the chat would stay live so players could keep breaking eggs together.

What actually killed it was industry-wide and had nothing to do with the studio. Adobe discontinued Flash at the end of 2020 and every major browser removed the plugin. Games built on Flash — which is to say most Facebook games of that era — became genuinely unplayable, not merely unpopular. The game you remember was left running exactly as promised, right up until the technology underneath it was switched off. That is why you cannot find a working link today no matter how deep you dig.

"I played the original constantly as a kid. When it vanished, I figured someone would eventually remake it — nobody did. So in 2025 I built it myself."

Why it is so hard to find anything about it

Four things conspired to erase Egg Breaker from the searchable web more thoroughly than most games of its generation:

• It lived inside Facebook. Facebook app pages were never well-indexed by search engines, and when an app stops working its canvas page returns an error rather than an archived copy. Scattered traces survive on the developer's own site and on the portals that carried it, but the thing you actually played left nothing behind that a search engine can show you.
• The studio changed its name. Egg Breaker was released by DJArts Games; that company became Codename Entertainment in 2014. Half the trail is therefore filed under a name that no longer exists, and the other half under a name that never appears next to the game you remember. It is also widely misattributed online to unrelated studios — including on earlier versions of this page.
• It was Flash. Flash games cannot be archived by simply saving a web page. Preservation projects such as Flashpoint have rescued tens of thousands of titles, but Facebook-only games that required a logged-in social session are among the hardest to capture — the game could not run without the platform around it.
• The name is generic. "Egg breaker" also describes kitchen tools, Easter apps and a dozen unrelated mobile clones released since. Genuine memories of the original get buried under noise.

The result is a game a lot of people distinctly remember playing and almost nobody can prove existed — which is exactly the kind of thing that sends you searching years later.

What the original actually played like

The loop was disarmingly simple, and that was the point. A tray of eggs appeared. You spent a hammer to crack one. Out came gold, a multiplier, a bonus — or, if you were lucky, a collection item you did not have yet. Fill a collection and you unlocked the next stage, with a new theme and a new set of things to find.

Hammers regenerated over time, so a session had a natural end. There was no story and nothing to fail. The pull was entirely the gap between "I have 6 of 7 items" and having all 7 — the same itch that makes sticker albums work.

The revival: Egg Smash Adventures

Nobody remade it, so a solo developer did. Egg Smash Adventures is a fan revival that rebuilds the original loop from scratch in HTML5 — no Flash, no Facebook login, no install. It runs in a browser tab and on Android.

It keeps what made the original work and drops what did not age well:

• The same core loop — smash eggs, roll prizes, complete a collection, unlock the next stage.
• 6 monkey companions, each with their own themed world, 8–9 stages and its own collection to finish.
• 353 collectible items in total, from Common up to the mythical Century Egg tier.
• No ads, no energy timers, no paywalls. Hammers regenerate; nothing asks you to wait eight hours or watch a video.
• Cloud save via Google, so progress survives a reinstall or a switch between phone and desktop.

It is a spiritual successor rather than a copy — the art, the worlds and the items are all new. What is faithful is the feel: crack an egg, watch the prize land, get slightly too invested in finishing a set.

Frequently asked

Is the original Egg Breaker coming back?

There is no sign of it. The rights sit with Codename Entertainment, which is still an active studio but stopped developing the Egg Breaker series in 2016 and has spent the years since on other titles. The original was Flash, so bringing it back would mean rebuilding it rather than switching it on. Egg Smash Adventures is an independent fan project, not an official continuation.

Is this the same game I played?

Not literally. It is a rebuild of the same idea by someone who played the original for years. If you remember the tray of eggs, the hammer counter and the collection album, you will recognise the rhythm immediately — but the worlds and items are new.

Does it cost anything?

No. It is free on web and on Android. There are optional one-time premium purchases for convenience and cosmetics, and nothing in the game is gated behind them.

Do I need an account?

No. Progress saves to your browser automatically. Signing in with Google is optional and only exists so your save can follow you to another device.