What is io games?

You can eat, shoot, hide, build, upgrade, and much more in our io Games. Play these games alone, together with friends, or against friends. 'io' in Games comes from the country extension for the Indian Ocean. io Games started with Agar.io in 2015. Now .io has become a synonym for real-time online multiplayer web games.

What was the first Io game?

However, the first IO game that really took off was Agar.io. It was a game that involved players moving as giant blobs that are trying to grow in size and absorb other players. While we don’t have Agari.io on Coolmath Games, there are tons of IO games that have similar gameplay to it on our site.

What does Io mean in a game name?

The ".io" part of io game names comes from a real web domain extension. It stands for the Indian Ocean territory where that domain is registered. But many game developers chose to use the .io ending for a clever reason. In coding, "I/O" is shorthand for "input/output" - a key computing term.