A new Roblox hit game gives players free speed if they’re willing to sit through short videos first, unless they pay Robux to skip them.
The game, called Steal An Egg, launched last month and has already racked up close to 300 million plays, arriving right behind Catch a Brainrot, the platform’s latest cash-in on its own meme obsession.
However, for Steal An Egg, the mysterious catch turns out to be a TikTok-style feed built into a treadmill lifted straight from Black Mirror’s Fifteen Million Merits.
Roblox YouTuber Foltyn had never heard of Steal An Egg before loading in to find 150,000 people already playing. In the game, progress runs through a Speed stat, and the only way to raise it is by standing on a treadmill at your base with a TikTok-style video feed built directly into the screen.
Players can like, comment, and share clips without ever stepping off, and the feed runs its own attention games inside the game itself.
So, in other words, training your character in this Roblox game becomes a scroll session dressed up as a game mechanic.
Treadmill section starts at 5:38 mark.
You can watch Foltyn discover the mechanic in real-time in his video, going from amazement to pure terror in the span of three minutes.
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