Games Like EvoWorld.io, and Playing EvoWorld With Friends

EvoWorld.io is a shared world: the other creatures on the map are other players or the game's own animals, and you can team up with friends or fight them. This post covers the social side of EvoWorld first, from the game's own text file, and then three games on this site that take a similar idea in another direction.

Playing EvoWorld.io with friends

• Party: you need an account. You invite a player you have scanned in the game, and the party gives an experience boost, which is inactive for any member who is dead. A member who goes offline has 60 seconds to come back before they are removed. Party chat works by starting a message with @.
• Friends: guests cannot use the friends list. Accounts can have 20 friends, or 100 with premium.
• Quick chat: the chat menu has ready phrases such as "Follow me", "Party?" and "Fight?", and a list of places to meet: Ice cave, Ice tower, Cemetery, City, Sewage treatment plant, Desert, Jungle, Volcanic biome, Cosmos, the Battle Arena and the Demonic Angel. You can turn off emoticons and text bubbles if you would rather not see them.
• Daily tasks: tasks ask you to kill, evolve, reach a form, eat something or play for a set time. Accounts get two a day, and premium gets a third.

EvoWorld's own Battle Royale

Battle Royale is a separate event, not the main game. You need account level 15 and 20 EvoTickets to join, or 30 if you are not a Grim Reaper, and it needs at least 5 players. The portal is in the Battle Arena, and parties are switched off inside. Lava starts to rise after 5 minutes and shrinks the arena. Crates hold armor, shurikens, bombs and gems. You do not heal on your own: each kill gives 1 health per second, and a kill fully restores your health. The last player alive wins 100 gems.

Yohoho.io: a whole game of battle royale

If the Battle Royale is the part you enjoy, Yohoho.io is built around it. Its own page puts you on a tropical island with other pirates, where only one survives. You collect doubloons to get bigger and kill other players to take their booty. You move with the mouse, WASD or the arrow keys and attack with a click or Space. Holding the attack charges a dash attack. Rounds end with your kills, loot and time survived.

Lurkers.io: a sandbox instead of a food chain

Lurkers.io keeps the shared online world but drops the evolution ladder. Its developers describe it as a free multiplayer sandbox with mining, crafting and PvP combat. It is also mod-friendly: players can host their own servers and script their own game modes. It suits players who liked exploring EvoWorld's map more than climbing the leaderboard.

Collect N Evolve: changing animals for their abilities

Collect N Evolve takes the "become a different animal" idea and turns it into a puzzle. The hints in its game files explain each animal's job: climb walls as a Monkey, double high jump as a Kangaroo, fall slowly as a Turkey, fit through small spaces as a Gecko, and smash through special blocks as an Elephant. EvoWorld changes your abilities each time you evolve. Here, picking the right animal for each obstacle is the whole game.

Which one to open

If you want other people in the world and a reason to team up, stay with EvoWorld and set up a party. If you want quick rounds where only one player survives, try Yohoho.io. If you want to build and explore, try Lurkers.io. For a slower game you can play alone, try Collect N Evolve.