Get ready to hatch your next big adventure wherever you go! Chicken Run: Eggstraction is touching down on Nintendo Switch this autumn, and here’s everything you need to know about the portable heist that picks up right after the latest movie, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget.
Eggstraction leaps directly from the closing frames of Dawn of the Nugget, letting you step into the tattered feathers of Molly, Frizzle and the rest of the escape crew as they mount one final mission against the sinister nugget empire. You’ll recognize the film’s cheeky humor, memorable lines and iconic character designs, now rendered in Aardman’s signature stop-motion style, but rebuilt for the Switch’s hardware.
Nintendo Switch’s blend of handheld freedom and TV-dock output lets you choose between immersive stealth in 1080p HD or clandestine breaks anywhere life takes you. Motion aiming turns every mission into a tactile experience, and the built-in rumble ensures you feel every near-miss alarm trigger. Eggstraction is literally the next chapter in the Chicken Run saga, bridging the gap between the big-screen escape and the ongoing fight for fowl freedom.
The game opens exactly where the 2023 film, Minutes After Dawn of the Nugget, ends: you’ve just broken out of the mega-nugget factory and liberated your friends. Eggstraction throws you straight into the aftermath, rescuing more chickens from hidden farms and sabotaging the ever-expanding nugget cartel. It feels like you never left the theater.
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Molly is still harnessing her “impossible escape” legacy, but Eggstraction shows her evolve from reluctant hero to tactical leader, planning multi-stage heists. Frizzle: Her mad-scientist contraptions get a bigger spotlight here, unlockable gadget upgrades literally mirror her growing confidence post-movie. Side characters you met on screen (Tweedy’s reformed guard chickens, the plucky coop kids) all get mini-missions that deepen their backstories. Both film and game explore how oppression breeds solidarity. Every new farm you infiltrate reinforces that core Chicken Run message: liberation isn’t a one-and-done deal—it’s an ongoing struggle requiring cunning, trust, and a little slapstick ingenuity.
We will get story secrets and easter eggs, plus secret dialogue snippets cribbed from unused movie lines that will give fans a “lost scene” feeling. Art galleries unlock behind-the-scenes concept sketches showing how Aardman iterated on the fryer-factory finale for the game. A hidden “director’s cut” level riffs on the original 2000 Chicken Run film’s opening, tying the entire franchise together. And it will feel canon because Aardman guided the script, Larry Rickard (Dawn of the Nugget writer) co-wrote the missions, so Eggstraction it’s officially stamped as Chapter 3 in the unbroken Chicken Run narrative. Die-hard fans will spot hidden nods to Dawn of the Nugget, from dialogue snippets voiced by Bella Ramsey and Josie Sedgwick-Davies to secret levels based on the film’s fry-factory finale. Unlock a bonus “story reel” gallery that stitches together behind-the-scenes concept art from both game and movie, deepening your connection to the Aardman universe. So we can be sure this will be the definitive Chicken Run experience on console.
