History VideoGame / Agario

''[[https://agar.io Agar.io]]'' is a massively multiplayer WebGame created on April 28, 2015 by at-the-time [[TeenGenius 19-year-old]] Brazilian developer Matheus Valadares as a browser game before expanding to UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on May 3, 2015, and later to Android and [=iOS=] devices on July 8, 2015.

The core mechanic of the game was seen earlier in the 2009's VideoGame/{{Osmos}}, a single-player project by the Canadian Hemisphere Games. After release, [[FollowingTheLeader it gave birth to a large number of clones itself.]]

''[[http://agar.io Agar.io]]'' is a massively multiplayer WebGame created on April 28, 2015 by at-the-time [[TeenGenius 19-year-old]] Brazilian developer Matheus Valadares as a browser game before expanding to UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on May 3, 2015, and later to Android and [=iOS=] devices on July 8, 2015.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Sometimes cells feed viruses to make them grow and eventually split. Guess who is normally hit by the splitting virus?

It is a multiplayer [[RisingUpTheFoodChainGame Rising Up The Food Chain Game]]: players control a cell on a map akin to a petri dish, and the goal is to gain as much as mass as possible by eating other cells and avoiding being eaten by other cells. [[SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds It's more interesting, more intense, and more fun than it sounds]], and was the subject of some quite monstrous popularity and success largely due to word of mouth to the point of being featured in an episode of ''Series/HouseOfCards''.

[[FollowingTheLeader It gave birth to a large number of clones.]]

* RisingUpTheFoodChainGame

* AnyoneCanDie: Downplayed in comparison to ''VideoGame/{{Slitherio}}''. In this game, you can only be eaten by cells bigger than you, so once you're the biggest on the board, you're pretty much invincible (provided you don't run into a virus and explode into dozens of smaller cells). It is very much this once you start on the path of growth, though.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Sometimes cells feed viruses to enlargen them so they split when fired at. Guess who is normally split by it?
** Also occurs when tiny cells split big ones. A large piece of cell is fired in the direction the virus was fired from.

[[FollowingTheLeader It gave birth to a large amount of clones.]]

''[[http://agar.io Agar.io]]'' is a massively multiplayer WebGame created on April 28, 2015 by at-the-time [[TeenGenius 19-year-old]] Brazilian developer Matheus Valadares as a browser game before migrating to UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on May 3, 2015, and later moving to Android and [=iOS=] devices on July 8, 2015.

[[FollowingTheLeader It did give birth to a large amount of clones.]]

* AnyoneCanDie: Downplayed in comparison to ''VideoGame/Slither.io''. In this game, you can only be eaten by cells bigger than you, so once you're the biggest on the board, you're pretty much invincible (provided you don't run into a virus and explode into dozens of smaller cells). It is very much this once you start on the path of growth, though.

In April 2016, a [[FollowTheLeader clone]] of ''Agar.io'' called ''[[VideoGame/{{Slitherio}} Slither.io]]'' was released and is currently on the path of the same big success. It can be played [[http://slither.io here]] and has also been adapted for mobile devices.

* AnyoneCanDie: Downplayed in comparison to ''Slither.io''. In this game, you can only be eaten by cells bigger than you, so once you're the biggest on the board, you're pretty much invincible (provided you don't run into a virus and explode into dozens of smaller cells). It is very much this once you start on the path of growth, though.

It is a multiplayer [[RisingUpTheFoodChainGame]]: players control a cell on a map akin to a petri dish, and the goal is to gain as much as mass as possible by eating other cells and avoiding being eaten by other cells. [[SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds It's more interesting, more intense, and more fun than it sounds]], and was the subject of some quite monstrous popularity and success largely due to word of mouth to the point of being featured in an episode of ''Series/HouseOfCards''.

It is a multiplayer [[RisingUpTheFoodChain]]: players control a cell on a map akin to a petri dish, and the goal is to gain as much as mass as possible by eating other cells and avoiding being eaten by other cells. [[SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds It's more interesting, more intense, and more fun than it sounds]], and was the subject of some quite monstrous popularity and success largely due to word of mouth to the point of being featured in an episode of ''Series/HouseOfCards''.

In the game, players control a cell on a map akin to a petri dish, and the goal is to gain as much as mass as possible by eating other cells and avoiding being eaten by other cells. [[SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds It's more interesting, more intense, and more fun than it sounds]], and was the subject of some quite monstrous popularity and success largely due to word of mouth to the point of being featured in an episode of ''Series/HouseOfCards''.

In the game, players control a cell on a map akin to a petri dish, and the goal is to gain as much as mass as possible by eating other cells and avoiding being eaten by other cells. [[SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds It's better than it sounds]], and was the subject of some quite monstrous popularity and success largely due to word of mouth to the point of being featured in an episode of ''Series/HouseOfCards''.

* AnyoneCanDie: Downplayed in ''Agar.io'', but played very straight in ''Slither.io''. In the former, you can only be eaten by cells bigger than you, so once you're the biggest on the board, you're pretty much invincible (provided you don't run into a virus and explode into dozens of smaller cells). In the former, however, no matter how long you get, you can always die by running into an opponent's body, no matter how small or big they are.

** In ''Slither.io'', swear words or words that are generally inappropriate are {{bowdlerise}}d; for example, "penis" is replaced with "cactus".

''[[http://agar.io Agar.io]]'' is a massively multiplayer game created on April 28, 2015 by at-the-time [[TeenGenius 19-year-old]] Brazilian developer Matheus Valadares as a browser game before migrating to UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on May 3, 2015, and later moving to Android and [=iOS=] devices on July 8, 2015.

In April 2016, a [[FollowTheLeader clone]] of ''Agar.io'' called ''Slither.io'' was released and is currently on the path of the same big success. It can be played [[http://slither.io here]] and has also been adapted for mobile devices.

''[[http://agar.io Agar.io]]'' is a massively multiplayer game created on April 28, 2015 by at-the-time [[TeenGenius 19-year-old Brazilian developer]] Matheus Valadares as a browser game before migrating to UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on May 3, 2015, and later moving to Android and [=iOS=] devices on July 8, 2015.

!!This work provides examples of:

[[caption-width-right:310:The Title Screen. Wow]]

Agar.io is a game which contains a cell eating other cells. Sounds simple? It is. It was created on 28 April 2015 by [[TeenGenius Matheus Valadares]].

* EveryoneChasingYou: If a cell is bigger than you, they're going to chase you. If everyone is bigger than you, everyone will chase you

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: When cells 'team', the smaller one sometimes gets the bigger one so big they are trapped and can be eaten easily.