Paper.io 4 12+

I have been playing this game for a long time, it is almost exclusively my idle time-wasting game. It is a ton of fun play, but there is a glitch that will cause your character to die, even when you are completely inside of your own area, no opponents anywhere near you. Also, if you are touching anywhere else on the screen when you do die, it clicks pass the option to watch an ad so that you can keep playing…. It should only accept inputs from the buttons, not the entire screen to skip. Lastly, some of the perimeters don’t “take” when. You fill them in, you have to go in reverse to close the area. Its been months since the last update… hopefully there is one coming soon to fix some things.

I was excited to see upgrades. And a seemingly huge map. But I’ve learned the upgrades you buy for each skin don’t matter. And the map isn’t that big. 100% of the other “players” (bots) are maxed out on speed. And even though I have maxed my speed out I’m still slower then them. So they always stay just a bit faster it seems. Making the fun upgrade dynamic a bit useless. They also made the bots a lot harder to outsmart. Which means they never leave their home until you do. Then they make a b line right for you 100% of the time. Highest I’ve got is 77%. But the higher you get the more bots you have making a direct sprint for your trail. Making it much harder to complete. But that’s okay. Prolongs the game because as far as I can tell the first time I make 100% that’s going to be it for me. No need to upgrade all the skins when it doesn’t actually do anything. So completionist drive for this one for me. And I have no Interest in watching a bunch of adds just to unlock a skin either.

So overall I’d say this one is a 3 star release. Maybe IO 5 will be better.

The overall game can be fun if you learn how to properly play. That being said, the lines are often glitched and inaccurate during gameplay which can be the difference between surviving or restarting. I can spend 30+ minutes building up a large section only for the game to crash every time making it a giant waste of time. Zero progress save, zero satisfaction, nothing…… to make things worse, it drains your phone battery so quickly that I had my phone charging with 73% battery and after 25 minutes my phone was down to 20%! That’s ridiculous! Especially since I had it hooked up to a rapid charger!

Overall, it’s not worth the time or download. There’s not really any progression and no point to playing. It may be a decent game to pass time but it will cost you your phones battery. Until they fix their game, I suggest looking elsewhere for entertainment. Or try the game out. I can’t stop you but if you do try it then let me get this out now, “I told you so”.