In an ideal gaming universe, Atomega would be as huge as Fortnite

Every now and then I check back in. To see if anybody's still playing, of course, but also to see if the thing really exists, if there really is a game as ingenious and quirky as Atomega. This is multiplayer battling by the same team at Ubisoft that made Grow Home. With that lineage it was never going to be bad. But it didn't have to be this good, either. Atomega is wonderful.

I got a game on Sunday morning, as it happens. Just me and two other players, but it was enough. Atomega drops you all into a compact battle arena that is warrenous as well as being weirdly sepulchral. Everything is a Swiss-cheese temple, basically, with dozens of corridors and secret passages to find.

Your job is to evolve. You start as a little ball of light and you move through a series of quick changes by eating the big purple blocks that spawn around the place. Eventually, you're a gorilla, and then a sort of giant bipedal robot, and then... and then somebody gets to be a god.

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