Egg Time Rewind is a side-scrolling space shooter drawn on a tiny 84 by 48 pixel screen in two shades of green. You pilot a small ship, blast waves of aliens, and try to crack the huge space egg that drifts through the field. The twist is what happens when you die. Time rewinds to the start of the run, and your earlier lives return as ghost ships that repeat every move and shot they made.
How to Play Egg Time Rewind
Press Space or click on the title screen. A card shows your remaining ships, then the run begins. Your ship always fires to the right, and a single hit from anything destroys it.
Aliens arrive from the right in groups. Saucers fly in a column of three and then turn back. Squid-like enemies bob up and down, ghosts drift toward you, and gunners fire slow shots in your direction. Every alien you destroy is worth 1 point. Every few seconds a big egg floats in, and cracking it gives 50 points. Each new egg takes more hits than the last.
You start with three ships. When one is lost, the same run restarts with the same enemy pattern, and your score carries over. Your old lives fly again as ghosts, shooting wherever they shot before. The pace picks up over the first minute of each run. When the last ship goes down, the game shows your score and returns to the title.
Egg Time Rewind Controls
| Action | Keyboard | Mouse |
|---|---|---|
| Move the ship | W A S D, arrow keys, or number pad 8 4 6 2 | After a click, the ship flies toward the pointer |
| Fire (hold for a stream of shots) | Space, Shift, or number pad 5 or 0 | Left button |
| Start from the title screen | Space | Click |
| Pause or resume | Esc | — |
| Restart the whole game | R | — |
Tips and Strategies
- Plan your first life. It replays in every later attempt, so a life that fires steadily at the egg keeps damaging it for you.
- Learn the pattern. Enemies repeat after each death, so use what you saw last time to pick safer lanes.
- Pause your trigger to charge. A full charge makes a piercing shot that is ideal for the egg or a line of saucers.
- Do not waste shots on the block columns. Look for the open gap and slide through it.
- Keep an eye on gunners. Their bullets aim at where you are, so move up or down right after they fire.
Features
- Rewind lives: each death adds a ghost ship that repeats your earlier run.
- Fresh layout each game: the enemy pattern is shuffled for every new game but stays fixed across your three lives.
- Charged shots: release fire to build up a stronger, piercing bullet.
- Saved high score: your best score stays in your browser and shows on the title screen.
- Gamepad support: the left stick moves and the face button fires.
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