Agar.io

Agar.io
Developer(s)	Matheus Valadares
Publisher(s)	Miniclip
Designer(s)	Matheus Valadares[1]
Programmer(s)	Matheus Valadares
Platform(s)	Browser, Android, iOS, iPadOS
Release	Browser 28 April 2015[2] Android 7 July 2015 iOS, iPadOS 8 July 2015
Genre(s)	Casual
Mode(s)	Multiplayer

Agar.io is a massive multiplayer online action game created by Brazilian developer Matheus Valadares. Players control one or more circular cells in a map representing a Petri dish.

The objective of Agar.io is to grow a cell on a Petri dish by swallowing both randomly generated cells, known as "agar", which slightly increases a cell's mass, and other smaller cells (players), without being swallowed by even larger cells. This can be played in a deathmatch or between teams. There is no salvation; players restarting when all their cells are swallowed. There are certain usernames that style the players' cells.

Agar.io contains three entities: Pellets, Cells and Viruses: The browser version currently holds five game modes: FFA (Free-For-All), Battle Royale, Teams, Experimental, and Party. The mobile version of the game includes Classic (like FFA), Rush Mode, Burst, and Battle Royale. Viruses divide large cells into several pieces thus becoming vulnerable. Small cells can hide behind them for protection against larger cells.

Because it was frequently propagated through social media and broadcast on Twitch^[3] and YouTube,^[4] Agar.io was a quick success. The agar.io website (for the browser version) was ranked by Alexa as one of the 1,000 most visited websites^[5] and the mobile versions were downloaded more than ten million times during their first week,^[6] and 113 million times as of December 2016.^[7] During 2015, Agar.io was Google's most searched video game.^[8] It was Google's second-most searched game in the United States in 2016.^[9] A 2015 press release by Miniclip stated that Agar.io was listed as the fifth top game on YouTube's list of top games.^[10]

1. ↑ "Agar.io, le nouveau jeu phénomène sur iPhone/iPad et Android". Pockett.net (in French). Archived from the original on 17 September 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
2. ↑ Irmak, Şafak (14 May 2015). "İnternetin Yeni Çılgınlığı: Agar.io" [The Internet's new craze: Agar.io]. Webtekno (in Turkish). Archived from the original on 11 October 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
3. ↑ Livingston, Christopher (27 May 2015). "Agario: the dot-gobbling browser game that's a hit on Twitch". PC Gamer. Archived from the original on 29 May 2015. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
4. ↑ Matuk, Pablo. "Agar.io, el nuevo y sencillo juego de moda" [Agar.io, the new and simple game in fashion]. Unocero (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 1 August 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
5. ↑ "agar.io Site Overview". Alexa Internet. Archived from the original on 1 September 2015.
6. ↑ "How Agari.io conquered the App Store, without spending a penny". Pocket Gamer. 28 July 2015. Archived from the original on 1 August 2015. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
7. ↑ "Agar.io amasses 113 million mobile downloads in 20 months". Pocket Gamer. 6 December 2016. Archived from the original on 22 September 2020. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
8. ↑ Makuch, Eddie (16 December 2015). "2015's Top Trending US Games on Google Revealed, Number 1 May Surprise You". GameSpot. Archived from the original on 28 January 2023. Retrieved May 6, 2023.
9. ↑ Fitzpatrick, Alex (13 December 2016). "These Were the Most-Googled Video Games of 2016". Time. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
10. ↑ "Agar.io is #5 on YouTube's list of top games". corporate.miniclip.com. 22 December 2015. Archived from the original on 23 August 2016. Retrieved 3 April 2018.