Game: Chicken Run: Eggstraction
Genre: Stealth, Adventure
System: Steam (Windows) (also available for PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series)
Developer | Publisher: Aardman Animations Limited | Outright Games Ltd.
Controller Support: Full
Price: US $29.99 | UK £24.99 | EU € 28,99
Release Date: October 24, 2025
Review code provided, with many thanks to Swipe Right PR.
As a massive Aardman fan, I was pretty excited to play a game about one of their properties: Chicken Run. It’s a great claymation movie about chickens who are trying to run away from a chicken farm. Let’s see what a licensed game about it looks like.
Not All Licensed Games, Right?
If you are familiar with licensed games, you know that most of them are not great. There are the legendary Aladdin and Lion King games for the SNES that were so challenging, most kids never even got close to finishing. There is also E.T., a game so bad that many of the remaining copies were buried in the desert to prevent people from continuing to play it.
Not to say there have never been good licensed games; Goldeneye 007 and The Simpsons: Hit and Run are two notable, beloved licensed games, along with a host of modern Batman titles. Another is SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom, which was actually “rehydrated” for modern consoles in the last few years.
However, if you ask most folks, licensed games aren’t very good overall. This is always a challenge for people looking to pick up a game based on something they love: will it be worth it or not?
How Eggstraction Stacks Up
When I booted up Chicken Run: Eggstraction, I was immediately surprised. The game is pretty; they managed to recreate the claymation type of look with the graphics, and there was a return of characters that fans already love. The opening cutscene is gorgeous and fun, and this game appears to be a sequel to another recent Chicken Run game. It is fully voice-acted and has some fantastic sound design.
So far, so good.
Next up, the game introduces the gameplay. You play as one or a group of the many recognizable chickens, like Ginger, Rocky, and Frizzle. You have to sneak into chicken factories and farms, breaking other chickens out without triggering too many alarms or being captured by people. It has a lot in common with games like Humanity or Lemmings since you need to guide a bunch of panicking chickens out of the level.
The first few levels are fun. They establish the whole story and concept, have some humorous exchanges, and give you an idea of what it will be like to save some chickens. The tutorial is great at teaching you how to use everything, and the levels are fairly easy to understand (though you might have to start over a few times to get where you need to go). I had a pretty good feeling about the first couple of levels.
The Gameplay of Chicken Run: Eggstraction
However, as you dive deeper into Chicken Run: Eggstraction‘s levels, you start to see the flaws. There is a lot of lag, and it is extremely easy to have one of your group members fall off a ledge and make the level impossible to finish. The ladder climbing animation is illustrative; it is jumpy and laggy, and sometimes you just leave one of the eggs following you around behind. It will never catch up with you either. One time, one of my group members disappeared and never reappeared again; I had to start the level over.
There are several other small things that I found annoying. For example, you can be seen by some alarms when you are at the top of ladders, but not others, and I found this incredibly frustrating. When you start a level open, you have to listen to the voice lines every time, which gets old very quickly if you have to start over again and again. Especially if the reason you had to start the level over again was not your fault, like a chicken disappearing.
Not to mention that all the levels seem to look the same. They all have the same kinds of color pallets, enemies, and similar buildings. It’s kind of repetitive.
Conclusion
Overall, Chicken Run: Eggstraction was pretty disappointing. There was a lot that was so good about it, but the play had a lot of issues with it. If you can grab this title on sale, and you like these types of games, you should pick it up and try it out. However, I don’t think it is worth the full price. Like many licensed games before it, Chicken Run: Eggstraction was more focused on the animations rather than the gameplay.
I think it would be a lot more fun if you had someone to play with as well. The co-op would give you someone else to help mitigate some of the issues I had.
Final Verdict: I’m Not Sure.
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