There are instincts in humans that make us feel good when we beat someone else in a game. Agar.io is the perfect playground for fueling this desire: Eat and absorb other players’ little colored cells with your own, growing bigger and bigger until nobody can stop you!
Agar.io is a game released on mobiles by Miniclip.com, the developer behind the very well known games site. They have tons of other popular games on the stores such as Plague Inc., Gravity Guy, Rail Rush, iStunt, Fragger or Monster Island, just to mention a few.
Agar.io is rated 4.3/5 stars on the Google Play Store, while sporting a 4.5/5 stars rating on the Apple App Store. This unique game was originally released as a browser game, but as it gained immense popularity in the past few months, they just released it for mobiles as well. Well, what are the changes compared to the original version? Is it just as fun and addicting? We shall answer these questions!
When you first take a look at Agar.io, you will probably notice the extremely simple artstyle. You probably think something along the lines of “Dots? There are dots everywhere and this game looks like it was made in paint!”. Well, don’t forget to not judge it by its cover, as the gameplay has something hidden in it that can make anyone look past the visuals, even if they don’t like it at first.
The gameplay is very straightforward and easy to learn, but hard to master in this game. When you first start out, you have to choose a name on the main screen. You can use any name with a character limit, even offensive names that would not be allowed in most games. This name will represent you and your dot, aka cell in the game, this is how other people will know it’s you, so choose wisely!
After you have got your name, you can start your journey in this multiplayer madness. You will be spawned at a random point on the white, squared map. From then on, you will have to control your cell by either holding your finger on the screen, or tapping in a direction and letting your cell move that way. You can customize this in the settings.
Your first goal in Agar.io is to eat small, stationary cells that are the smallest of all dots. Eating these will slowly make your own cell grow, allowing you to eat bigger things soon. There is an infinite amount of these available and they respawn after a while, so there will always be some to eat.
Moving around the map and eating stationary cells is the easy part of the game, but you are not alone, not at all. There are a huge amount of other players on this same map as well, each of them having a cell similar to yours, only in random colors and with different names. These players have the same goal as you: growing as big as possible. These player controlled cells can be eaten the same way as the stationary ones, if they are smaller than you, gaining their current mass for yourself. Players will usually do everything they can just to avoid others bigger than them, so using cunning and prediction skills are very useful here. Expecting where a player will move can greatly increase your chances of eating them.
Although chasing smaller players can be fun, you can’t be careless, as there are also players with bigger sizes than you. Anyone big enough can simply eat you the same way as you can do with small cells. It’s worth to remember though that small cells move a lot faster than big ones, so this can be used as an advantage to dodge and avoid them.
Agar.io is not this simple though, as chasing others around the map might not pay off, if they always just run away. For this reason there is an option to split your cell using a button. What splitting does is it halves your cell’s current mass, pushing half of it ahead, essentially creating two cells from one under your control. Using this to jump ahead and pick off smaller players can be a good way to gain mass and grow in size. You can split multiple times, but each of your current cells will split, causing you to become really small if you keep doing it over and over again. When a specific amount of time passes after the split, your cell will reassemble into one.
Other than the option to split, there is another button in the game. This one is used for ejecting mass ahead, which will remove some of your mass and proper it forward, creating a stationary cell that anyone can eat. This can be used for multiple purposes, including making friends by giving other players some of your mass, showing your friendliness. Be wary though, as in Agar.io the desire to grow can break any friendship!
The game also has spiky green cells scattered about, which never move. These are called viruses and have multiple purposes. When a player cell bigger than the virus moves over it, the virus explodes, tearing the player’s cell into multiple small ones. This can cause that player to be eaten by others more easily. Another use for viruses is for small cells to hide under them, as they are not hurt by the virus, but big players are, so they can’t follow them. The third use of a virus is to eject mass at it, which if you do enough times in a row will cause the virus to split into two towards the direction you were shooting, essentially creating a virus bomb that can be thrown into another player, causing them to break to little pieces.
Size does matter in Agar.io, as there is a leaderboard in the game, which is probably one of the most temporary leaderboards in any game. You can see the current top players on your server and it also shows your number in the list. As your mass increases you will move up on the top list, and if you are doing great, then you might even become the number one! Holding this position is not simple though, as everyone wants to be at the top and they will fight for their cell lives with any means neccesary!
While in-app purchases are not found in any form in the game, it features some pop in ads after playing 3-4 games in a row, usually making it so that the ad jumps into view when you are about to tap on the play button, causing you to be sent to the ad’s webpage.
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Agar.io has a lot of advanced tactics that can differentiate a normal player from a very good player, so let me share some with you. Some of these might even be considered cheats, if you can pull them off.
First I must share with you a tip about the mentality which is required to play this game. If you happen to grow to a pretty good size, but get hit by a virus and break into tiny pieces, you should not give up. You can still play and fight for your little cells until you reassemble, then take revenge on the person who shot that virus into you. In the same vein of thought, don’t be mad at the game when you are eaten, as it’s just the circle of Agar.io. Just start it again and try better, hopefully you will be the one who can eat the next player!
As for some tactics, you can use the split button to split when you are chased by a huge cell. Splitting into two smaller pieces can help, since smaller cells have a higher move speed and you might be able to get away using this trick. Not only that, but splitting into two can usually guarantee that the piece that is propelled forward can survive, while your other part gets eaten. Sometimes ejecting mass ahead can work the same way in increasing your speed. If you are tricky, you will eject the mass in a way that you can get it back as you move forward, so you don’t lose anything, but escape a huge pursuer.
An advanced tactic you might want to use is related to eating someone close in size to you, when you have two cells. If someone like that is chasing you, but can’t eat you, they will usually just turn around and go on their way, but the trick is to not let them! You should follow them instead and when your two cells reassemble on top of him, you will automatically consume that person.
A fun little cheats tactic of mine is to keep ejecting mass towards a smaller player, acting like you want to make friends, while not showing any sign of agression. This will usually make them wait for more free mass from you, giving you the time to split and consume them in a surprise move.
Another thing to keep in mind in Agar.io is that when you are one of the top players on the server, you should be very careful near viruses, as other players will try to shoot the virus onto you, causing you to break into smaller cells and giving a feast to anyone nearby. Try to move in a way that you are not overexposed to viruses.
Also remember that there are sides to the map, which are not visible until you run into them. Use the walls and especially the corners of the map to trap other cells and catch them. When a huge cell corners you, you are probably done for!
Agar.io, a very unique and immensely fun game. This was not a stranger to me, as I have played the browser version for countless days before. I’m pretty sure my knowledge of this game is good, but playing it on mobile still proven to be challenging, and not because of the well known gameplay, but technical issues.
I really just felt at home with this game right as I first started it. I choose the name “W = Team”, which is a joke on the fact that you use W in the browser version to eject mass. Using this name people tend to act friendly to others who eject mass towards them, or just trick and eat them. Of course ejecting mass and splitting here in this version works differently, using two buttons that can be chosen to be placed either to the right, left or both sides of the screen.
The general gameplay seemed to be the same, except the fact that in the browser version cells continously lose some mass as they move around, losing it faster the bigger they are. Well, in this mobile version cells don’t seem to lose any mass by moving, so big players either need to be destroyed by viruses, or they will dominate the leaderboards for a long time. Becoming really big also has its issue that you will have a harder time to see around yoruself, because of the limited field of view. Other than this, everything works just as expected and I would have enjoyed it just as much as I usually do, if not for two technical issues.
The first issue is that the game has constant lag. There seem to be less servers on this version than the browser game, which probably contributes to the laggy experience. There might be differences in latency based on where you live, but for me the lag was very annoying.
If not for the lag, the other problem I had was with the controls. Neither holding on the screen or tapping to make my cell move in a way seemed to be perfect. I always had some troubles with controlling my cell, often getting eaten either thanks to the controls or to the lag.
Overall Agar.io on the mobile is just as solid as the original, but there are some issues regarding latency and the controls. It’s definitely worth a go, just to see if maybe you won’t be lagging like I did, as the gameplay is really addicting. If you have lag troubles, you should also check out the browser version, which is basically lag free.
Ratings:
Artwork: I give the artwork in Agar.io a 7/10 rating. While the game is not something beautiful, it doesn’t even want to become that. It has a simple, yet unique style, which just works perfectly with its gameplay.
Music & SFX: The game doesn’t feature any sounds or music whatsoever, so I can’t really rate it. I can safely say though that this doesn’t hurt the game at all, as it’s just as fun in this way as it would be with sound.
Story & Originality: The originality of Agar.io gets a 9/10. I haven’t seen anything similar to this game, it’s definitely a very unique gem in the gaming world. Even if there will be clones later on, following the success of this game, it will be still remain the first to do what it does.
General Gameplay: The general gameplay gets a 6/10. The gameplay is extremely fun, thanks to the nature of competing with other cells and the advanced game mechanics such as splitting, ejecting mass and the viruses. I still can’t rate it any higher, as the lag is very annoying and the controls definitely need more work. Still, these are only the mobile port’s issues, the gameplay itself is definitely great.
Addictiveness: The addictiveness of this game deserves a 9/10. I can’t remember any other game as addicting as Agar.io. You will find yourself coming back to it time after time, just wanting to play one more, while only quitting the game after you have played ten more. The gameplay flows by fast and there is always some excitement to be found. It’s also really easy to pick up and play anywhere, without any preparations. If they fix the lag and maybe add new control options, the game will be perfect on mobiles as well.
Overall Score: 7/10.
