In short
You start as a small dot in an arena full of AI bots. Food makes you bigger, smaller dots are prey and bigger dots will swallow you. Your score is your total area. On a desktop the dot follows your mouse; Space splits it and W fires off some of your mass.
What we checked on the web version
- No account needed. Your nickname, the current mode, a Play button and your best score sit on one menu screen.
- Four modes: Classic (no timer), Time Attack (3 minutes, peak score counts), Hardcore (split pieces never merge) and Bot Battle (watch the AI play).
- Controls: mouse steering, Space to split, W to eject. On phones you drag on the field or switch to the C-pad, which adds SPLIT and EJECT buttons.
- Hazards: brown splitters eat smaller dots; green splitters scatter you if you eat them.
- The live rank list on the right showed one or two bots with 2,800 to 4,200 points from the very start of each round.
- The Game Over card shows time, peak and final score, best rank, food and dots eaten, and who ate you.
- Customize offers 1,100 styles, with separate toggles for outline, body colour and core shape. There are eight interface languages.
Our first-rounds report, including the mistakes that got us eaten in 14 seconds, is in Bigger Dot lands on the Mac App Store: modes, controls and what our first rounds taught us.
