Part Gluttony, Part Territory Control
Hole.io drops you into a bustling city as a tiny black hole with a very simple ambition: swallow everything until you're the biggest hole on the map. Early on, that means pathing through easy clusters — pedestrians, traffic cones, scattered café furniture — anything small enough to vanish beneath you instantly. As your hole grows, so does your appetite, until parked cars, street lamps, and eventually entire buildings become fair game. The real competitive layer only shows up once other players enter the picture, though: cutting a rival hole off from a rich spawn area, contesting a park full of easy pedestrians before they get there first, and timing your growth to swallow a building tier just before the match timer runs out all separate a top score from a middling one.
Controls: Steer and Swallow
Move the mouse or use WASD depending on the version loaded to steer your hole around the city, rolling directly over objects to consume them automatically. There's no separate action button — swallowing happens simply by making contact with anything smaller than your current size, so positioning and pathing are the entire skill set.
- Clear small, dense clusters of objects early rather than chasing one large object across the map.
- Watch rival holes' size and steer wide of anything bigger than you, since they can swallow you just as easily.
- Cut off rivals from rich spawn areas when you're large enough to contest them safely.
- Save pushes toward large buildings for when your size can clear them in one pass rather than nibbling repeatedly.
- Track the match timer and prioritize guaranteed easy objects over risky detours as time runs low.
If growing bigger at your rivals' expense is the appeal, the classic grow-or-be-eaten arena of Agar.io and the farm-and-hunt loop of Gotet.io offer more of that same competitive growth formula. Discover more .io games on our all games page.
