Play Mort the Chicken Online

Summary

Mort the Chicken lets you step into the feathers of a surprisingly heroic poultry. You guide Mort across colorful platforming stages, using his signature comb‑whip to smash the odd cube that threatens the farm’s newborn chicks. Health is measured by two stalks of corn, and each hit not only chips away at that corn but also lets the cubes snatch a chick, adding a tense rescue element to the run‑and‑jump action.

Power‑ups are delightfully chicken‑themed: eggs boost Mort’s abilities, chicken food patches refill his corn health, and occasional upgrades let him leap higher, grow gigantic, or even summon rescued chicks to attack foes. The levels are peppered with up to ten chicks each, encouraging you to balance aggressive cube‑whipping with careful chick‑saving.

Despite its quirky charm, the game was met with largely unfavorable reviews upon release. The character, however, found a second life in 2023’s Pizza Tower, where Mort appears as a power‑up in the "Fun Farm" stage, granting double‑jumps and hook‑launches—a nod that even the creator, Ed Annunziata, approved.

Storyline

In Mort the Chicken’s quirky world, chickens are the dominant species and the feathered hero even hosts his own television show. Across a parallel dimension, cube‑shaped beings known as the Boolyon watch the chickens with suspicion. Their commander, General Cubicles, spots the chickens’ hay piles and mistakenly believes they’re kidnapped citizens from his realm. In retaliation, he orders an invasion that pours through a mysterious well, snatching the baby chicks and scattering them throughout the Boolyon universe. Undaunted, Mort leaps down the well and embarks on a daring quest to rescue the lost chicks and thwart the cube‑like invaders.