Steal An Egg: the guide to Roblox's number one game

At our check on November 10, 2026, Steal An Egg had about 938,000 players online, the most of any game on Roblox (see our trending Roblox games). It has 10.9 billion visits in just over three months. Servers hold 7 players, and it runs on desktop, console, mobile and tablet.

How to play

The game page lists the whole loop in seven lines, and it really is that simple:

1. Steal eggs from pets. Each area has a guardian creature watching its eggs.
2. Hatch eggs at your base to collect pets.
3. Earn money from your pets.
4. Upgrade your treadmill and base.
5. Train on the treadmill to gain Speed.
6. Steal eggs from other players, and guard yours.
7. Find rarer eggs, pets, sizes and mutations as you get faster.

Speed is everything

Speed decides where you can go. The first area, the Forest, has no Speed requirement. Every area after it is guarded by a bigger creature and asks for more Speed, and the rarest eggs sit in the farthest areas. If you are too slow, the guardian catches you before you get home.

• Train on the treadmill at your base whenever you are not on a run.
• Upgrade the treadmill and base with the money your pets make.
• Trails also add Speed, and Speed can be bought with Robux, but you never need to.

Best early strategy

1. Start in the Forest and only grab eggs you can carry home safely.
2. Hatch everything. Any pet earns more than an empty slot.
3. Spend money on the treadmill and base first. More Speed opens the next area, and the next area pays more.
4. Train between runs. Do not stand still waiting for money.
5. Protect your base. Other players can steal your eggs, so do not leave a rare egg unguarded.

Areas and guardians

Every area in Steal An Egg has its own guardian creature sleeping on its eggs, and the art on the game page shows a few of them: a T-Rex on the sand, a striped snake in the grass, a yeti in the snow and a black dragon in the far cosmic zone. The developers keep adding new areas. Since September 2026 the official updates added Angels vs Demons, The Enchanted Forest, a Halloween Dimension and, on November 7, an Alien biome.

The way to read the map is simple: the farther an area is from the start, the more Speed you need, and the better its eggs are. Do not rush ahead. Getting caught by a guardian on the way back means losing the egg and the time it took to get there. Farm the last area you can escape from safely until the treadmill makes the next one easy.

Stealing from players, and stopping them

The game page lists it plainly: you can steal eggs from other players, and they can steal from you. A few habits keep your base safe:

• Bank rare eggs quickly. Do not walk around the lobby with a rare egg in your hands.
• Watch your base when a fast player is in the server. Speed works for thieves too.
• Play with a friend. One runs to the areas, the other stays home and trains on the treadmill.
• Keep it friendly. Stealing is part of the game, but never chase the same small player all session. Everybody started in the Forest once.

Mutations, sizes and the Fuse Machine

Pets can roll different sizes and mutations, which make them worth more. Rainbow is one mutation that the big guides agree on. The Fuse Machine sits on the left side of the lobby near the Sell Shop: put in three pets of the same type and it rolls a bigger egg of that pet. Every fusion costs money, the result is random, and mutations can be lost unless all three pets share them. So do not fuse your only mutated pet.

Late game hides a Secret Fusion Shrine in the Angels and Demons biome. It takes one Light and one Dark Eternal or Divine pet from that biome. Pegasus and Skeleton Horse make Equinox, and ArchAngel and World Burner make Aetheron.

Mounts and badges

Since October 10, 2026 you can ride your pets. During the Shooting Star event a star falls to the ground; feed it to a pet and it becomes a mount. The official badges also show what the game rewards: Welcome for joining, Hatched Secret, Hatched Eternal and Hatched Divine for the top egg rarities, Angelic Treadmill and Divine Trail, plus two event badges from Roblox's Halloween season, The Hollow 26 and the Jonas Brothers concert. Hatched Secret is the most common of the three hatch badges, with about 99 million players; Hatched Divine has about 14 million.

Updates and events

Steal An Egg updates every Saturday. These are the developer's own event posts on Roblox.

Steal an Egg: Angels Vs Demons Official Trailer

Mounts arrived on October 10: during the Shooting Star event a fallen star lets you turn a pet into a mount. On Halloween the Jonas Brothers played a concert inside the game, announced on Roblox's own channel:

Jonas Brothers live in Steal an Egg (Roblox)

The story behind the game

Steal An Egg went viral within weeks. Dexerto reported close to 300 million plays one month after launch, and GamesRadar+ and Massively Overpowered reported more than 500,000 players online at the same time in late August 2026. Then Roblox pulled it, over the scrolling video feed on the treadmill, and wrote new rules for games that reward watching a feed. The game returned without the feed and kept growing: by our check on November 10 it was close to a million players online. The developers also tell a story through weekly events, with characters like Ben, his friend Sammy and the villain Dr. Scramble, whose "revenge" was the big showdown in late September.

Steal An Egg codes

Codes for look-alike games such as Break and Steal an Egg do not work here. Free rewards in Steal An Egg come from events and updates instead. For games that do have codes, see our Roblox codes list.

Left: Break and Steal an Egg, a separate game that says it was inspired by Steal An Egg. Right: the official Steal An Egg icon.

Like the stealing part most? Steal a Brainrot is the game that started the trend. Want a long RPG grind instead? Try Blox Fruits. Everything is on the Roblox hub.

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