Minigiants IO

An arena game that borrows from role-playing games rather than from snakes. You choose a character class with its own weapon and reach, you grow physically larger by killing smaller things, and size translates into damage and health — so the arena always contains opponents both well above and well below your weight, and the judgement of which is which is the game. That judgement is harder than it sounds because size is visible but skill is not. A player your own size who knows their class will beat you, and a player noticeably larger can still be killed by two smaller ones working the same target. Classes differ in reach, speed and swing timing rather than in numbers alone, so learning one properly is worth more than switching between them. Death costs your accumulated size, which gives every fight a real stake and makes the decision to disengage a skill in itself. Rounds are continuous rather than matched, so you can farm quietly or go hunting as you prefer, and the leaderboard makes it obvious which approach the top players chose. It plays well on touch and better with a mouse.