What Makes .IO Games Good? 

Hey so.. It's been awhile. Hope you missed me. 2021 is about the be the biggest year for Reality Escape ever so.... Stay tuned.

9:47 Press K to level up almost instantly. Use backslash to change tanks (so you can be a level 45 class when you're at level 1). Use O to instantly kill yourself and semicolon to activate god mode.

The ones with real multiplayer are generally pretty good Fake multiplayer tho...

The reason these kind of games popped up at one point was the availability of Websockets as technology that makes it feasible to make multiplayer games in the browser.

.IO is often used by tech companies because "IO" may refer to "Input/Output" as in BIOS (Basic Input/Output System)

I'm always pleasantly surprised when I see one of your videos in my recommended, always super entertaining!

Comment for video visibility, channel needs more love.

3:28 RIP Ghostboy

When I used to play Slither.io day in and day out, I was once got a score of 44966 and I haven't forgotten it to this day.

Diep.io is one of my favourite games, although it is not as popular as other i.o games I play it a lot. And zombs.io is pretty good too if you have teammates that actually know how to play the game and communicate, it was really fun when a party I joined in had actual roles you had to do to protect the base, I was the defender upgrading the walls and traps while others take care of resources, upgrading the gold stash and attacking the zombies. I was pretty fun. Also the more teammates you have the more towers you have to protect the base (if your teammate cooperates with you that is), I might be wrong though

I remember playing mope.io with all my friend back in 4th or 5th grade those were fun times.

ghostboy259, my favorite streamer, i miss you oh so deeply

I think In diep.io in training you can press k to get max level

By far my favorite io game would have to be devast.io its kinda like minecraft where you have to build a house and plant food to survive and it does have mobs trying to kill you. But the bigger issue is always other players some are nice and others are down right evil. They'll place blocked in front of your house so you cant leave and wait for you to die and steal all your items. The game is crazy fun when you bring a group of friends in to try and own the server. But food is always an issue even with a farm going you always seems to run out of food cause someone forgot to play crops again. Mean someone has to go out at night and risk dying. Or maybe another gang of players sees how nice you guys have it and they launch an attack on the base while most of your team is out gathering leaving you alone to defend. I've made so many good memories playing this game and intend to make more soon!

this channel is so underrated

In Diep.io's Sandbox mode, you can press the K key to level up instantly.

Just discovered your channel, you deserve way more attention man. These are very high quality videos, you should have way more subs

Back in the day there was only Agario and every YTber was playing it, but like all gaming fads it eventually died out, so I was absolutely baffled when I got the email a year or two ago talking about a mega-bundle of .io games for charity. Now there's apparently THOUSANDS of those games, they're all mostly the same, all mostly dead, and anyone can just shit out a new game mode.. it's pretty much turned into the gmod of flash games

Can't wait for you to start streaming again!

starve.io is also a really good one, it's a survival type game

I am looking through your vids and really enjoying all of them; thank u for the great content !

9:46 @realityescape, you don't need to grind, you can just hold down K

I always felt like hole.io is a rip on donut county. The donut county team has also said that they were frustrated by this game

I just found RealityEscape in my recommendations today. I like this channel, explains things about games, and does it good, ngl.

Oh noes You could have joined the diepcord to revise that part of the script to correct: -When tag actually worked -Pressing K for instant leveling in sandbox -Knowing how the game stood for two years without updates until this October. And also to know more about how the game was in the past.

Another great video, good to see you back GhostBoy.

very late, but i agree with the “i o” pronunciation. it’s an acronym, after all, either for indian ocean or input/output depending on context.

At one time i was addicted to . Io games and have played most of the games showed in this video 🤜🏻🤛🏻

Seeing the timelapse of you grinding in sandbox hurt me because you can just press K

Always loved your channel. This video is a banger just like the rest.

Amazing ep as usual I hope to see more in 2021

I have nothing to say but commenting helps the vid be seen more

Agar.io reminds me of Fishy. Based on how you described the games you showed here I think you've heard of it. Another thing, thanks for putting the song names and music artists on screen so I don't need to ask for them.

Your videos are very good to watch I hope you will get more popular in 2021 cheers to 2021!

there was a .IO game that i really liked playing before but i can't remember what it was called. it was a simple game where some people spawn into a world, and after a bit a few get mutated into zombies. you could push stuff around and there were also upgrades you could buy like baseball bats and pills that made you less likely to turn into a zombie. i really want to play this game again and would appreciate someone telling me what it's name was and where to find it.

playing zombs on the school computer with the boys for hours at a time... then leaving and lose your progress... good times

I've been playing Agar for years, yet not once have I really thought of splitting my blob for speed man, I miss being a kid

Nice to see you back!

THANK YOU FOR ADDING SUPERSPINIO

20:59 i like that you say what music you use but i can't read it because of your youtube watermark

the only 2 differences with experimental mode are the brown cells that eat you (the thing you mentioned), and also ejecting mass into viruses moves them instead.

Im so happy that you're back

I remember playing these games so much as a kid

Glad to see your back (for now)

Hole.in is a reproduction of a mode in Space Invadeds for the Nintendo 64.

in zombs.io you can actually increase the max amount for each tower by having more people on your party/team, other than that great vid.

Its a good day when RealityEscape uploads

The “or if your 20 beyblades” hit me like a semi truck with a mass of 2 tons going 81 miles an hour

My nostalgia is going trough the roof

My boy! Thank you!

YOU ARE BACK! I LOVE YOU! (sorry for my english)

At long last HE HAS RETURNED!!! Welcome back, we’ve missed you

oh my god i forgot about you and i soon as i saw this in my recommened i was like HOLY SHI HE UPLOADED?!

I didn't expect a upload but I welcome it

9:59 there is a way to get XP instantly in sandbox without grinding

I suddenly remembered your channel after like 1 year and... :D

• 7:20 - Diep is probably a reference to the Dieppe Raid. • 13:25 - This is just multiplayer _Qix._

Hey, I haven’t finished the video yet so maybe you’ve brought it up, but at the start you bring up that .io stands for Indian Ocean Territory and seem confused why tech companies use it. The reason they use it is because IO is also short for Input/Output, or I/O.

Yes you are back Yay!!!

I was so excited when I saw a beyblade io game and then it all crashed once I found out it was just a fidget spinner game.

it is "dot" "I" "O" you said it correctly.

i used to play so much of this

i remember one time where i actually managed to get to the top of the leaderboard in diep. and somebody actually named themselves "fuck (my name)" which was really funny. wasnt even being particularly toxic or anything.

DEFLY.io is an AMAZING .io game. In this one you have 1 health and there are superpowers and a lot of strats. YOU CAN WIN ON THIS ONE. I've 1 FFA once and it took 2 and a half hours. But it is fun!

Glad your doing good!

9:51 if you press "J" i think, you get alot of xp in sandbox

This never got blocked at my high school so I goofed off with it in class but it got me through summer vacation summer of junior year

These spiky spawn circles will kill big circles, but as a small circle you can hide inside them.

Hey ghostboiiiiiii glad to see you back. Not to complain, but what does make a good io game? I don't think you really said what are the common or uncommon traits of a good io game? Was the simplicity what makes io games good? The way that you can immediately tell how to play any of these games from watching or jumping right in? I am designing a game and I really try to do this. Someone said of you can look over the shoulder of the person sitting next to you on the bus or train and can tell how to play the game, then that is a well designed game (for phone games anyhow). Or did I miss the whole point of the video and what makes them so good is that they load up immediately and anyone can jump on and start playing?

You came out of the void. yay!!!!!!!

Agar is used in laboratories to grow germs and molds to study.

If it’s a mobile app (or has a mobile counterpart) it’s usually full of bots. You can tell because you can still play if you turn off data & wifi

Starblast.io because Its a space 3d shooting and has cool 32 ships you can choose on,[It has a discord server by looking at bottom left of the website].

“I don’t think Diep is a thing.” That’s my mom’s nam-

you can actually beat paper.io! you do have to get 100% of the whole board, which takes forever, but it is doable

Agar.io is basically battle royale (in a boarder sense) but with winning condition removed and there's no time limit per game. Traditionally (before 2010) battle royale web game are all based on, well, a game called Battle Royale, where the whole server only host 1 game that unless you are way too late, you can just join mid-game. And because actions are "command based" (you don't know what happened until you use any command), there's virtually no limit to how many players can join the same game. But then, maybe one downside of traditional BR is that things are just way too complicated, and it takes a minimum amount of players to start a game, while agar.io made it so it can be single player and there's not much complicated mechanics in the game. It's basically where non-account-based multiplayer web game peaked. And after that, before long it would face the same issue of all web based multiplayer games, that is, you got to have players around to have a reasonable game. I would predict that the future of webgame is about asynchronous multiplayer games. Many people had, and are having fun watching videos with danmaku turned on, so it should be logical that some game would make use of similar concept. Blockchain collect-a-thon comes close to such concept, but there's not really any gameplay at all, and the concept of blockchain itself has its own set of issues. Maybe one day, then.

If you're Canadian you have to use the Canada snake atleast ONCE

Yay!

When you said you have to grind in sandbox diep that hurt, you can just hold k and get to 45 instantly

It's "dot eye oh" You were correct

great video, but.... okay jokes aside It's nice to see IO games being mentioned in 2020. I am someone who spend way too much time playing and looking into IO games. as such there are a few things where you have missed details or overlooked aspects. like you mentioned a lot of IO games are merely you vs. bots, and that hole thing leads you down a rabbithole of modern mobile game practices and stolen ideas for a quick buck on the mobile game market. it's a topic close to IO games as they have started the whole concept.

im 12 and i used to play babledes or whatever they were called with my brothers,. fun game

23:00 Exactly

diep io was my childhood

.io also stands for i/o: input output

Real multiplayer... oh wait

Defly.io was popular for quite a while as well.

Theres a hotkey for xp in sandbox mode btw

zombsroyale.io is a battle royale for zombs.io

In diepio there are hotkeys in sandbox to level up and reset lvl.

Gotta hate on hole.io for 1) having game multiplayer and 2) Amir killing Donut Town which was in development far before its web based ripoff by a company known for bad games, ripoffs, and fake multiplayer

One that may have been made by the same people as zombs.io is zombsbattleroyale.io . It's a fully fledged battle royale and honestly could be comparable to games like fortnite and warzone.

Zombs.io: the number of stuff you can place can change. You just need more players in your team.

there is an insta upgrade key for the diep.io sandbox

Diep and slither are so good

These, like incremental games are stripped down games optimizing for a specific style of mechanic. Where incremental games focus almost solely on addressing progression systems these are about competition systems. The whole nature of these are exploring the range of the individual foundational mechanics of games (interactive experiences) much like the process of making minimal art is exploring the range of the individual foundational mechanics of the visual experience. Minimal Games all together. I/O kind of refers to interaction (communication) and networking, it might actually be fitting to call these IO games coincidentally. Perhaps drop the preceding 'dot' though.

8:48 "And the game is still being updated to this day." Anyone in the diep community would cringe at that. Edit: I watched until he said "In sandbox mode you have to slowly grind up" and lost it

Also, honourable mention to deeeep.io

Diep.io sandbox has a button that increases your level

Diep.io will always be my favorite io game