Players run around the arena eating cool glowing orbs to grow their snakes. In that game, players return to the world of classic Snake in an improved, multiplayer-enabled version.
Steven Howse, a developer from Michigan, USA, released Slither.io in March 2016. Agar.io was acquired by Miniclip a few months after its original release.Īgar.io’s success inspired other developers to build similar browser-based real-time multiplayer games.
The game features cells which grow by eating agar or other players, and which can be split. It became an overnight sensation, amassing millions of players. It was created in 2015 by Matheus Valadares, a Brazilian software developer, and released on the internet forum 4chan.