Egg Hunt 2020: Agents of E.G.G.

Egg Hunt 2020: Agents of E.G.G. or simply Egg Hunt 2020 was a Roblox egg hunt similar in gameplay to Egg Hunt 2019. Players travel to different games to collect eggs. Unlike previous years, the event did not contain a lobby. However, and an official explanation as to such was later provided. Instead, Roblox chose a community-made version as an official alternative to this, known as the Egg Hunt 2020 Fan Hub. This was discovered as it was the only game selected on the Egg Hunt section of the Games page to have not been originally featured alongside the main games.

The event was first revealed in an announcement on the Developer Forums, where Roblox staff held a submissions survey for developers to send their games in for approval. The name, logo, theme, and duration of the egg hunt were all revealed in the 7th Annual Bloxys. It was also revealed that there will be 53 different eggs to collect. The egg hunt began on April 7, 2020, and ended on April 28, 2020, although most of the eggs were released early a day prior for soft testing.

Like the previous year's egg hunt, on March 30, 2020, the Roblox Twitter account made a challenge tweet which said that an egg for the egg hunt would be revealed at 6K retweets and another at 13K likes. On the same day, the Roblox Instagram account posted a challenge to reveal an egg for 80,000 likes. The challenge tweet quickly reached post milestones, and on April 1, the eggs were revealed. On April 5, 2020, all eggs for the event were published in the avatar shop. The next day, the challenge post on Instagram reached 80,000 likes and the egg was revealed.

On April 7, 2020, the event's official start, a page for the event on the Roblox website was created along with a blog post announcing the start of the event.

Games
49 games participated in this event:

Eggs
There were a total of 53 eggs available for this event:

Criticism
Although the egg designs have mostly been praised, there have been a lot notable concerns raised by event participants:
 * Some players were disappointed due to lack of an official formal hub to collect eggs in, compared to previous egg hunts.
 * The PC players were criticizing the egg hunt because in some games, like Tiny Tanks, the mobile players can get the egg when they log into the game, while the PC players could have had to take hours to try to get the egg if they are unlucky.
 * Certain games such as Time Travel Eggventures and Tiny Tanks have been criticized for attempting to profit off of the event. In Time Travel Eggventure's case particularly, the game was not well-received as a whole due to the difficulty of the parkour sections which led to many players constantly having to either try the entire mission again or pay Robux for extra lives. However, after they received the criticism, they made the parkour easier and gave the players more lives.
 * Some games were criticized for having challenges that were too easy (sometimes just requiring people to join in some cases) or too hard (not including optional challenging methods of getting the eggs.)
 * Several eggs were lazily implemented, usually involving fetch quests, obbies, or relatively easy boss fights, with little to no relevance to the actual gameplay.
 * Some eggs were in games that decided to make the egg obtaining method take unnecessarily long, such as cutscenes being longer than they need to be, unskippable dialog that takes a long time which prevents progressing until it finishes scrolling, walking simulators, intermissions in round-based games taking excessively long amounts of time, extremely well-hidden objects for fetch quests, and other forms of stretching out egg hunting in an attempt at getting people to play for longer, while also getting more Robux from artificially longer playtime from premium users in the process, usually forcing players who don't have all the time in the world to buy a VIP server in hopes of speeding up the process. Serious offenders include A Wolf Or Other, Mad City, Epic Minigames, Break In, Monsters of Etheria, Ski Resort, The Wild West, and Tower Defense Simulator, for various reasons.
 * Large games such as Minery, Royale High, The Wild West, Sinking Ship Roblox Britannic, Robot Inc, VentureLand, and Super Striker League have been observed to lag immensely on low-end devices, which has resulted in frustration from players.
 * Flop has resulted in frustration due to the mechanics of the game itself making it time-consuming to obtain the egg if the player does not know how to handle their fish effectively. There have also been complaints about lag and difficulty in locating an unclaimed egg in populated servers.
 * Theme Park: Gravity Oasis's quest has been considered quite time-consuming and there were a few instances in which the game would break in the portal world due to the narrator not saying anything when the keycard was picked up, resulting in the player having to restart the entire quest over again.
 * For an unknown reason, salvage didn't save when the player leaves/resets, so the player had to regain the salvage by riding the roller coasters again, which could prove to be tedious.
 * Ski Resort was considered very time-consuming due to difficult controls and occasional server-side lag, as well as having a bug for some players where they would be put back at spawn after taking out a snowboard at the top of the mountain, in addition to having some of the 11 ramps being out of the way and hard to find without watching guides.
 * Bad Business' quest was criticized for being boring and time-consuming, despite it being possible to sometimes get it with only a few kills, due to its RNG-based egg obtaining method.
 * Build a Boat for Treasure had a hard quest for first-time players. The boat controls were difficult with all the obstacles in the water, making it tricky to maneuver the player's boat through the paths, paired by the length of crafting and the inability to flip the crafts upward.
 * Mad City has been criticized for the number of slots for heroes on a server. YouTubers recommended that the player be a hero if they did not have any aerial vehicles so that it would be easier to collect eggs for the altar. Many servers players were joining, the heroes team was full and if the player were a cop then they would be killed by a criminal. Some players complained that there weren't any eggs spawning on servers.
 * Initially, 4 games did not allow mobile players to join and receive the egg, essentially preventing them from being able to acquire the respective games' eggs as well as the Faberge egg if they could not or did not want to access the games on a PC:
 * Tiny Tanks and Monsters Of Etheria gave mobile players their eggs for free when the event started.
 * On April 9, 2020, Ultimate Driving: Westover Islands opened up its game for mobile users and gave them the egg for free, while The Wild West created a mobile-only place that only contains the temple in order to allow mobile users to acquire the egg manually.
 * A large number of games were unavailable on the Xbox One platform, and there was no workarounds making players of this platform unable to acquire all of the respective games' eggs as well as the Faberge egg if they could not or did not want to access the games on PC/Mobile.
 * Royale High was quite hard as that you have to aim 3 times to win the egg, people can get very mad at this for having bad aim and have bad inconsistensy devices such as mobile where you have to tap the target.
 * The accessibility to mobile players in this year's egg hunt contradicts Egg Hunt 2019, when there was 5 eggs completely inaccessible to mobile users.
 * Some of the servers for the Egg Hunt game mode for Royale High were very laggy and players would need to constantly serverhop for working servers.
 * Tower Defense Simulator was somewhat criticized for its method of obtaining. New players would often not know what to do, relying on other players to carry them through the map. It was also criticized to be time-consuming as the average match lasts 15 minutes and newer players may get confused on which elevator to use as you could not get the egg in hard mode. However, it was somewhat praised for giving all players the same loadout (regardless of level) so that newer players could complete the quest and higher level players could not obtain the egg with high-level towers.
 * A Wolf Or Other's quest was criticized because the mission was very difficult since the egg could appear anywhere on the map and only one player could take it, so looking for it was not easy because the Wolf could kill you. Even if you got the egg it was very difficult to win since you would have to hide from the Wolf and every time the Wolf killed a player, the time increased so that the Wolf had more time to kill the other players leading players to frustration.
 * Additionally, the Wolf could claim the egg themselves which meant they had a much higher chance of getting the egg themselves.
 * SharkBite was criticized because trying to get the key for the vault in the lobby was very frustrating since it was held by the shark. The shark has a higher speed than a user's boat, making people chasing the shark and getting the key very difficult.
 * For some reason, when the shark is killed, the survivors don't get the key, which means that the survivors have to wait for another round and try getting the key again.
 * Roblox was somewhat criticized for publishing the Dragon Eggventures egg into the avatar shop before revealing it on Instagram.
 * Many people criticized the theme for this egg hunt, as a majority of the missions in the hunt had little or no relevance to the theme "Agents of E.G.G". Many people said the Egg Phone was glitchy and sometimes wouldn't show the eggs the user had resulting in confusion from the player.
 * Some people who got all the Eggs in the Egg hunt didn't earn the Fabergegg of the New Decade while others got more than one, sometimes even 3 Fabergegg Eggs.
 * Roblox made the event very similar to both Egg Hunt 2019 and 2015, unlike 2018 and many other egg hunts, the event is spread out through games instead of in a single game.
 * This also means controls in the games are different, taking people longer to get the eggs.
 * Despite obtaining all the eggs being considered difficult by many players, some very skilled players, such as Merely, believe it to be very easy.

Trivia

 * Some eggs reference external media and items:
 * Marine Egghibit's description references caviar, a delicacy in fancy restaurants.
 * iEgg 12 Max Pro is based on Apple's iPhone brand, more specifically the iPhone 12 Pro Max, which had not been announced at the time.
 * iEgg 12 Max Pro is also a reference to the iEgg from Egg Hunt 2013.
 * Despacitegg is directly inspired by the Despacito Spider, which was created in Robloxian High School and went viral after being used in memes on the subreddit /r/GoCommitDie.
 * Egg of Cthulhu references the fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft.
 * Adopt Me, Chick! references the famous paradox: "What came first, the chicken or the egg?"
 * Britannegg references the British cruise liner known as the Britannic, which is the ship featured in the game.
 * Cheggered Flag is a recreation of the checkered flag seen in most racecourses.
 * Tenteggcle Alien's description references the famous science fiction writer H. G. Wells.
 * Doc Holidegg is a reference to the notorious gambler and criminal Doc Holiday.
 * The name of it, Agents of E.G.G., is possibly a reference to Marvel Studios and ABC's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * This event contradicts the Developer Events replacement of events, which was put in-place after Egg Hunt 2019 concluded.
 * Much like its predecessor, the trailer for the hunt was first unveiled during the Bloxy Awards.
 * E.G.G. stands for Extract, Gather, Guard.
 * This is the second egg hunt to have an exclusive gear and egg for Video Stars and the first for Developers.
 * At around April 5, 2020 at 7:15 PM PDT, games for the egg hunt began to open.
 * On Google Play and the Microsoft Store, Roblox announced the event's start on April 6, despite the announcement reading April 7 to April 28.
 * The first of these games was Texting Simulator.
 * The second was Hero Havoc.
 * For unknown reasons, Roblox administrators mixed up the names (including texture names) of the Egg of the High Skies and the Eggobot.
 * The event was originally going to consist of 50 games and 55 eggs, however one game dropped out for unknown reasons and the 54th egg went unused.
 * This egg hunt had a total of 6 returning games from Egg Hunt 2019: Scrambled in Time.
 * These are: Epic Minigames, SharkBite, Deathrun, Bee Swarm Simulator, Robloxian High School and Zombie Rush.
 * This is the first egg hunt to not place its respective admin launcher on-sale.
 * BEAR, MURDER, and A Wolf or Other are the first horror-classed games to be in an Egg Hunt.
 * However, MURDER and A Wolf or Other are simply just murder mystery type games while BEAR has an actual horror aesthetic.
 * This is the fifth egg hunt to feature games from the Roblox platform.
 * The other four being Eggstravaganza (2008), Eggstravaganza 2010, Roblox Easter Egg Hunt 2015 and Egg Hunt 2019: Scrambled in Time.
 * QA testers who tested the egg hunt received all 3 launchers on March 30, 2020.
 * Break In's boss fight and boss arena are designed to pay homage to Egg Hunt 2013.
 * This is the 9th time Epic Minigames has been featured in an event. Before this event, it was featured in ROBLOX Holiday 2015, ROBLOX Summer Camp 2016, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Smurfs: The Lost Village, DuckTales, Space Battle, Kids' Choice Awards 2018 and Egg Hunt 2019: Scrambled in Time.
 * This is the fourth time Deathrun has been featured in an event. Before this event, it was featured in Buried Treasure, Hallow's Eve (2018) and Egg Hunt 2019: Scrambled in Time.
 * This is the second time Speed Race has been featured in an event. Before this event, it was featured in Smurfs: The Lost Village.
 * The FabergEgg of the New Decade wasn't obtainable during the hunt but was instead given as a grand prize after the end of the hunt for the people that got all 49 regular eggs.
 * The Admin Egg, Video Star Egg, and Eggveloper Egg of "X,Y,Z" were not required to be eligible for this egg.
 * At the time, this event had the most games participating in an event; with 49 games. This was beaten a year later by Metaverse Champions; with over 180 games.
 * Time Travel Eggventures now holds the title of the worst received game in an Egg Hunt, at a 27% LTDR (Like to Dislike Ratio). This beats HACKR (featured in Egg Hunt 2019), which currently has an LTDR of 38%.
 * Not only that, Minery takes second place, with an LTDR of 36%.
 * Despite this, Time Travel Eggventures is still tied with Mountaineers from Roblox Holiday 2017 for lowest LDTR on a game featured in an event.
 * The way that the E.g. Egg was obtained is a reference to the Ernest Cline book Ready Player One and its film adaptation, where Wade Watts has to unlock the door with three different colored keys to obtain the golden egg.
 * The colors of the keys in the game Eg is also similar to the keys in Ready Player One. The red key resembles the copper key, the green key resembles the jade key, and the blue key resembles the crystal key.
 * The way the egg was obtained was also used in the Egg Hunt 2019: Scrambled in Time event, where the Roller-eggster was in a compartment which was meant to be unlocked with three different colored keys.
 * The music in the Egg Hunt trailers is the CounterSpy theme.
 * Despite having them awarded early, Roblox prohibited users to utilize the egg launchers until the hunt started. Users who launched them early were limited. This is most notably seen in star program member SharkBlox, who uploaded a video detailing how he was warned and barred from events for launching eggs early.
 * Epic Minigames had a bug in which getting the Eleggtrifying Eggmin of 2020 in-game would've resulted in the player being awarded with the Eggveloper Egg of "X,Y,Z" instead. This issue was later resolved.
 * On some devices, when players got all 5 drumsticks in Zombie Rush, they didn't get the egg. This was fixed later on.
 * Early in the morning of April 29, games begin to remove their egg hunt updates. The second-to-last of these games was The Wild West, with the egg still obtainable until April 29, 2020. Tiny Tank's egg was obtainable until May 5, 2020, although many games did not shut down servers, and the egg hunt could have kept going in some servers.
 * This is the second consecutive egg hunt to include an ice related egg.