Paper.io 2 Unblocked — Play Free Online

Paper.io 2 is a territory-grabbing game with one simple idea: you are a small coloured block on a big grid, and every bit of floor you enclose becomes yours. Rival blocks are doing exactly the same thing at the same moment, so a round is part land grab, part game of chicken.

It fits this site because it shares the pencil-and-line feel of the drawing games here. You are literally drawing a trail across the map, and what you draw decides whether you win space or lose everything. Rounds are short, restarting costs nothing, and it runs in the browser with nothing to install.

How to play

Steer with the arrow keys. Click inside the game once first so the keys reach it. Your block moves constantly, and you can turn but not stop, so you are always planning the next corner.

While you stay on your own colour you are safe. The moment you step off it, you start leaving a trail behind you. Loop that trail back onto your own territory and the whole area inside the loop is filled in and added to your score. The risk is that the trail is fragile: if another player touches it before you close the loop, you are out, and your land goes with you. Running into the edge of the map or crossing your own trail also ends the run.

The same rule works against your opponents. Their trails are as breakable as yours, so cutting one off is the fastest way to remove a rival and sometimes to inherit a slice of the board.

Tips

• Grab land in small, quick loops near your base instead of one huge sweep. A short trip out and back is hard to interrupt.
• Watch where the other blocks are heading before you leave safe ground. A rival closing in on your trail is the usual cause of an early loss.
• Keep your turns planned. You cannot stop or reverse, so a wrong turn near a wall or your own trail ends the round.
• Do not stay out longer than you need to. A larger loop earns more land but exposes a longer trail for longer.

Similar games on Car Drawing Game

One Line Draw is another game about a single continuous line, but it is a puzzle with no opponents and no clock. Draw the Road and Draw the Hill ask you to sketch the surface a vehicle will travel over, which is calmer than a live land grab. If you want to stay with speed, Hill Climb Racing Lite and Eggy Car are physics driving games where one mistake ends the run, much like a broken trail here.

Paper.io 2 suits short sessions, and a round can end in under a minute. It works best with a keyboard, though it is an HTML5 game and also runs on phones and Chromebooks through the browser.