There is a border that helps confines avatars in a space.

This feature is useful to outmaneuver and defeat opponents.The drawback is that the avatar will lose some mass while being speed boosted. By pressing the spacebar or clicking the mouse, the player can activate “boost mode”, where the avatar is able to speed up. The defeated avatar’s body turns into bright, shining dots for other players to consume.There are also dots that spawn from other snake avatars. If the player’s snake’s head collides into a part of another snake, the player loses the game and must start over. The objective of the game is to control and move a snake avatar around a dark space, eat dots, defeat and consume other players to grow the avatar into the biggest and longest in the instance of the game. The game grew in popularity following its promotion among several prominent YouTube users such as Pewdiepie and Markiplier.The mobile version of the game topped the App Store shortly after its release. Slither.io is similar in concept to the popular 2015 web game, Agar.io and is reminiscent to the classic arcade game Snake. Slither.io is a massive multiplayer browser game developed by Steve Howse in 2016.Players control a snake-like avatar, which consumes multicolored dots in the game to grow in size the objective of the game is to grow the longest snake in the server.

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