My favorite easter egg is the option to kill Guybrush Threepwood in The Secret of Monkey Island by making him hold his breath for more than ten minutes underwater.

Loads in Skara Brae in Ultima V -

Tombstone that reads "Here lies the Tale End of a Bard" (referencing the Bard's Tale)
Tika the barmaid from the Wayfarers' Inn is named after Tika Waylan from the Dragonlance novels.
And one I didn't find but read about- if you swear at any of the characters in converstion you will be scolded - one of the swear words is Electronic Arts :)

Assassin's Creed Origins
Finding the Tardis of Dr. Who at the bottom of a river. One of his journeys ended badly and a very long time ago. The blue of the Tardis is gone. Instead it's weathered and grey and it seems the good Doctor was smashed by his Tardis because a pair of mummified legs are sticking out from under the Tardis.

The time paradox of this Easter egg is fantastic. The Tardis and the Doctor which are from the future (in relation to when the game takes place) but because of time travel they became way older than the protagonist and the event of the game.

The Secret Cow Level in Diablo 2.

It was amazing back then to discover this secret map, with all its amazing loot, which alluded to Diablo 1 (Wirt's Leg ... Wirt said: "pssst over here!").
Good old memories!

Far cry primal and finding the car from Flintstones at the bottom of the lake.

Secret rooms in RAGE referencing the previous id Software games. Really shows how the graphics evolved and a nice touch for FPS fans.

In Lesuire Suit Larry 7: Love for sail, if you click on the crotch of the third statue on the left side of the hallway outside the Boning cabin. Select Other, and type “unzip”.

Then you get to see Annette Boning play in a big pile of money in her birthday suit. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

My favorite Easter egg is the X-Com Fighter Alpha arcade cabinet located in the barracks of XCOM Enemy Unknown. This arcade cabinet uses the original soldier and sectoid artwork from X-COM UFO Defense as an homage to the original X-COM game that kicked off this genre back in 1994. Many younger players won't even realize this is an Easter egg, much less notice it, because their first introduction to this franchise would have been the 2012 reboot.

The hidden mini-game with smacking a fly in Excessive Speed.

Not only because I want to use a car named "Elvis", but also because it's always toying with my ambitions. Not sure why, it's a bit hard and long to achieve, yet I'm always falling into that.

My favourite easter egg (probably my first ever easter egg) is from the monkey island games (forgot the specific one) where if you keep talking to some people playing darts in a bar, the conversation breaks the fourth wall and the they throw a dart on to the screen where we are (the player) and making it crack.

"What is your favorite video game secret/easter egg? "


Video Game Secret huh..?


My favorite video game secret would be the E.T. - Extra terrestrial graveyard. The story of a game so terrible it is credited with crashing the entire video game industry back in the 1980's. Indeed, this failure was of such great magnitude, Atari was rumored to have buried the unsold copies in the desert. And under concrete no less!

Of course, such obvious hyperbole could only ever bee an urban legend.

... Right?



Well, they say say every legend has at least some small element of truth.

Thanks a an excavation effort in 2014, we now know where that element of truth lays. A fun little Easter egg that can be found in the city of Alamogordo, New Mexico, U.S.

- E.T. was a terrible game that possibly contributed to (but by no means caused) the 1980's crash.
- They were buried in a land fill, along with many other Atari goods (including consoles and other games).
- . . . There was also a layer of concrete added to the landfill.
- And the disposal was such a popular topic, that even the game's creator supposedly didn't believe they were trashed.




This answer may be a little too meta to qualify. But I'll stand by it anyways as one of the best video game "secrets" ever uncovered.

My favourite Easter egg in any game had to be the Monty python quest for the holy grail reference in the original Shadow Warrior.

There are many of them, but my favourite is the one in Uplink where you can enter the Protovision Game Server and start a game of Global Thermonuclear War - a reference to Wargames

The one in Fallout 2 where you can encounter an actual egg in New Reno also deserves a mention :)

My favourite must be the coffin of Jackie Chan in Shadow Warrior. He slipped in the shower :(

I think my favourite easter egg of the recent years is the secret town from Realms of Arkania - Star Trail (Das Schwarze Auge - Sternenschweif) in Blade of Agony. Imagine my surprise, when I was strolling through that game, killing Nazis and looking for secrets, only to find myself suddenly in one of my favourite role playing games. Even the music changed to the original soundtrack of that game. There were elves, dwarves and all kinds of adventurers standing around and I remembered that town from long ago. It was really a special moment in that awesome game. First very confusing, then exhilarating.

And by the way, this game contains a lot of great easter eggs! Try to find them all!