A new game is literally becoming a craze all over the world, especially after Miniclip has released the mobile version for iPhone and for Android smartphones and tablets (as we will see you can also play on Windows Phone). After playing for a few days, I must say that I have never seen a game so simple and so addictive and fun, where one game leads to another and you can never stop. It is Agar.io, a multiplayer game in which you control a small ball that eats other smaller balls avoiding being swallowed by the older ones .
The circular sphere is like a fish that eats plankton and moves in the sea among other fish, which can be smaller or even larger.
Each sphere is a player who moves to eat the crumbs of food to grow, running away from the larger spheres and trying, at the same time, to swallow the smaller ones to incorporate them and absorb them so as to become bigger and bigger, score more points and go up in Ranking.
Who is better or luckier can become the biggest ball at that moment on the game server capable of eating others and will be first in the ranking of that moment, trying to resist and not be overcome by someone else.
Already after the first few games it is immediately clear why Agar.io has become a mania : easy to learn incredibly fun and engaging, competitive.
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As mentioned above, you can play Agario from your computer on the Agar.io website (where access with a Facebook account is required), on iPhone, Android and unofficially also on Windows Phone smartphones looking for the Hungry game in the store Cells .
In Agar.io you only play online in an all against all where there are no alliances or friendships and where each one must look after himself, resist and eat the others without scruples. Agario has a simple graphic, with many colored circles that can be given any name. Some special names draw the sphere in a particular way and, for example, by calling Italy, you will have a ball with the Italian flag while by calling Facebook, you play with the Facebook logo.
The names that activate different balls are described on this page.
If you are annoyed by too vulgar names, you can choose in the game options to hide the names and see the spheres all empty in a clean way.
The game mechanics of Agar.io may seem obvious and simple, but there are also some tricks that it is important to know in order to withstand more time in each game and become big. To begin with, you have to do everything to eat the smallest balls in order to grow. The score practically indicates the size achieved.
The main rule to keep in mind at all times is that the more the size of the sphere grows, the slower it becomes . This allows those who start a new game to grow by running away from the bigger ones who, in turn, will be forced to divide to eat the little ones who become too fast to be caught.
When you are a little older, you can tap a side button on the screen (or the space bar if you are playing on a PC) to divide the sphere into two smaller ones . This is the most important trick in Agar.io to eat the little ones even if you are slower in running.
The other key on the phone screen or the W if playing from a PC, expels some mass which is both a way to lighten and become faster in movement at that precise moment, and a way to shoot. The still green balls encountered in the painting are viruses, which can be used to protect yourself when you are younger, but should be avoided when you grow up.
A large sphere that goes against a virus is divided into dozens of small balls that become easy prey for all those around them.
If you are eaten, the game is over and you start again, with the small and fast ball.
One trick to use when you grow old enough to eat the fat of us is to shoot viruses . In fact, by shooting mass on one of the green viruses, it swells up to divide itself into two, firing the second outwards. If you can shoot a virus into a sphere, it will burst into small balls and become easy to eat.
Eventually in Agar.io a real survival battle takes place where one must try not to be swallowed by others and, at the same time, try to eat the smaller fish. The only flaw of Agar.io is the possible lag when there are many players but the game, as mentioned, is becoming the craze of summer all over the world and the developers of Miniclip are improving it every day.
