Hole io

About Hole io

Hole io is a free online multiplayer game from Voodoo where you control a hungry black hole rolling through a city, swallowing everything in its path. You start out small, absorbing pedestrians, benches, and trash cans, but every object you consume makes your hole bigger, eventually letting you eat cars, street blocks, and even entire buildings. You can also chase down and swallow holes controlled by rival players, growing faster by taking their progress instead of your own. Choose between four modes, Classic, Battle Royale, Teams, and Solo Run, across 14 different maps, and customize the look of your hole with unlockable skins.

Hole io runs entirely in your browser on both desktop and mobile with no download or install required, controlled with either your mouse or the arrow keys. Matches are short, fast, and chaotic, with every session capped at just two minutes, so there’s always time for one more round of destruction whether you’re playing for a few minutes or settling in for a longer session.

Controls

Game Modes and Maps

Hole io offers four ways to play: Classic pits you against a crowd of rival holes on one map with the biggest hole at the end winning, Battle Royale shrinks a play area over time to force encounters, Teams has you cooperating with other players to grow a shared score, and Solo Run lets you practice growing your hole without direct competition. With 14 maps to explore, ranging from city streets to different urban layouts, and a range of customizable skins to unlock, there’s enough variety to keep matches feeling fresh.

Absorbing Objects Efficiently

Growing quickly in Hole io is about more than just rolling into things at full speed. Tall objects like poles need to be approached slowly, since moving too fast makes them topple over onto the ground instead of falling into the hole. For objects larger than your current hole, approach one edge and slide gradually toward the opposite edge; this uses the game’s physics to tip oversized objects into the hole, though it takes noticeably longer than swallowing something your hole can already fit.

Tips for Winning at Hole io

Keep an eye on the timer in the upper left corner at all times, since each round only lasts two minutes and every second spent hesitating is growth you’re not gaining. Stay away from holes larger than yours, since your own hole will fall into theirs on contact, and instead hunt down smaller rivals to steal their progress. Favor high-traffic areas of the map early on, since dense streets packed with pedestrians and small objects let you grow fastest in the opening seconds.

How to Play Hole io

1. Choose a mode — Pick Classic, Battle Royale, Teams, or Solo Run.
2. Select a map — Choose from 14 different city layouts.
3. Start small — Absorb pedestrians and small street objects to begin growing.
4. Grow steadily — Move into busy areas to consume more objects quickly.
5. Target smaller holes — Chase down rival holes smaller than your own.
6. Avoid bigger holes — Steer clear of any hole larger than yours.
7. Dominate before time runs out — Grow as large as possible within the two-minute round.

Developer

Hole io was created by Voodoo.

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