14 Best Getting Over It Easter Eggs | Hidden Secrets
Are you a fan of Getting Over It and want to know about its hidden secrets? Then this article is for you. We have listed the 14 best Getting Over It easter eggs below, with the exact location of each one and how you can find it yourself.
Getting Over It is a platform game famous for its brutal difficulty. You climb a mountain while stuck in a metal pot, and it takes hours of practice to master the hammer. But the mountain is not just obstacles as Bennett Foddy hid many small secrets in it. Some reward patience, some punish curiosity, and one of them is a secret room that only players who finish the game ever see. Let’s find them all.
What are Easter Eggs?
An easter egg is a hidden message, image, joke or feature that a developer hides inside a game for players to discover. It does not change the story or the gameplay, it is just a fun secret. Getting Over It has many of them, and most players climb straight past them without noticing.
How to find Getting Over It Easter Eggs?
Most easter eggs in this game are found by exploring instead of rushing. Read every sign on the mountain, look at the objects around you while you climb, and pay attention to the places where you get stuck the longest — Foddy placed several secrets exactly where frustrated players stop and look around. A few need specific actions, like clicking the mouse 500 times or staying stuck at the anvil for about 8 minutes. We have explained the exact trigger for each egg below.
1. The Golden Cauldron
This is the game’s biggest reward for dedication. Your pot starts out black, and every time you complete the game it becomes a little more golden. After you beat the game a total of 50 times, the pot turns completely golden, the famous Golden Cauldron. It does not make the game any easier; it is purely a badge of honour. Considering less than 1% of players finish this game even once, a golden pot marks a truly master hiker. If you enjoy chasing records, our Getting Over It speedrun guide lists the fastest players in the world.
2. Clicking 500 Times
This one only works on PC. Clicking the mouse has no function in this game as you move the hammer by moving the mouse, not clicking. But if you click the mouse button 500 times while playing, the game notices, and Bennett Foddy says: “Listen, this is a little awkward, but you’ve clicked the mouse button 500 times now. I’m gonna say you’re gripping the mouse a little bit hard.” It is Foddy’s joke on angry players which, in this game, is almost everyone.
3. The Orange Hell Quote
After the furniture section you reach one of the hardest obstacles in the game, which players nicknamed “Orange Hell” — a red table with an orange on it, and more oranges beside it. While you struggle here, Foddy delivers one of his most famous lines: “An orange, a sweet juicy fruit locked inside a bitter peel. That’s not how I feel about a challenge. I only want the bitterness. It’s coffee, its grapefruit, its licorice.” Most players are too frustrated at this point to listen but this quote explains the whole philosophy of the game.
4. Diogenes, the Man in the Pot
The character you play is not random. He is Diogenes, named after Diogenes of Sinope, the ancient Greek philosopher who famously lived in a large clay pot and rejected all luxury and social norms. That is why the hero of one of the hardest games ever made lives in a pot and owns nothing but a hammer as it is a joke and a philosophy lesson at the same time.
5. Foddy’s Commentary Reacts to You
Foddy’s voice-over is not a fixed recording that plays the same for everyone. Many of his lines are triggered by what you do because he comments when you reach certain places, like the bucket, the centre of the ice cliff, and the tower, and he has specific things to say when you fall and lose progress. Play long enough and the commentary starts to feel personal, which is exactly what Foddy intended.
6. The Thumb
While climbing up the mountain you might encounter a thumb that is pointing out from the mountain. With the help of as specific mod, you can view this thumb from the front side instead of viewing it sideways and see the secret easter egg that Bennett Foddy has put there.
7. The Car
Below the Orange Hell section sits a car among the junk of the mountain. It is famous among players for the worst possible reason: when you fall from the oranges, the car is one of the things you can crash into on the way down. Many rage stories in the game’s community start with “I fell and hit the car.”
8. The Gift
If you get stuck in the anvil section of the game and cannot get past it for more than 8 minutes then the game drops a gift box for you. If you move onto this gift box, a group of crows burst out from it and fly away. This is a fun little easter egg and it can also give the players a jump-scare.
9. The Purple Hat
One of the jumps on the mountain is known among players simply as “the jump up to the purple hat”. The hat is one of those strange objects like furniture, food, vehicles, clothes that the whole mountain is built from, and players have turned several of them into landmarks with their own nicknames.
10. The Snake
Next to the bucket, high on the ice cliff, there is a snake with a sign above it that reads “DO NOT RIDE SNAKE”. Foddy even warns you in his commentary at the bucket: “You’ll feel bad if you win, so I put this snake in for you.” If you ignore the warning and ride the snake, it sends you uncontrollably all the way back down to the very beginning of the game, next to the lake. It is a direct reference to the board game Snakes and Ladders, where landing on a snake sends you back to the start. You can see the snake’s exact spot on our Getting Over It map.
11. The Bad Ending
There is a second, secret way your run can end at the final tower. Climb to the top of the radio tower and place your hammer on the other side of it, then shimmy down with the tower between you and the head of your hammer. You will fall to the base, trapped — and Foddy delivers a special line: “You got so close, but this is past mending. You got the bad ending.” There is almost no way to recover from this, and most players caught here have to restart the game just metres from victory.
12. The Secret Chatroom at the End
This is the egg almost nobody sees. When you finally reach the top and finish the game, after the credits the game asks you a question: are you recording or streaming your gameplay? If you answer no, you are given access to a private chatroom where you can talk with other players who have finished the game. For a long time, Bennett Foddy himself would receive a notification whenever someone finished, and if he was awake, he would join the chat and congratulate them personally.
13. Unused Lines
Foddy recorded more commentary than you will ever hear in a normal run. Players who dig through the game files have found extra recorded lines that never play in the final game like more quotes, jokes and thoughts on failure that were cut before release. It shows how much writing went into a game where the developer is the only voice you ever hear.
14. The Dedication in Space
The ending itself hides a soft moment. After the tower you propel yourself up into space, climbing on floating asteroids among the stars while the credits roll. There, Foddy’s final words are not a joke but a dedication: “I dedicate this game to you, the one who came this far. I give it to you with all my love.” After hours of teasing, it is a genuinely sweet reward for the players who made it.
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Conclusion
These were the 14 best easter eggs hidden in Getting Over It. Some reward patience, like the Golden Cauldron. Some punish curiosity, like the Snake. And one, the winners’ chatroom, is seen by almost nobody. Next time you climb, slow down and look around — the mountain has more secrets than the climb itself. And if you want to climb better, read our Getting Over It tips and tricks.
