In an ideal gaming universe, Atomega would be as huge as Fortnite Eurogamer.net If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. In an ideal gaming universe, Atomega would be as huge as Fortnite Grow up. Feature by Christian Donlan Features Editor Published on 22 Oct 2019 25 comments 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. Of course, everyone's trying to do this, and you rarely meet your enemies when they're at the same scale as you. A couple of laser blasts from someone a few tiers above you will send you back to being a ball of light again, but when there's a god knocking around, everyone's in trouble. Watch on YouTube My favourite thing about Atomega isn't purely the fact you get to grow and be gigantic, though. It's that as you grow, the map subtly alters the ways you get around: old passages will become inaccessible because you're too big, while new ones will open up because you're able to physically get to them. These maps, all of which feel like echoing open spaces at first, are all filled with these secret speedways, corridors meeting magically in a manner that puts me in mind of Burnout Paradise. I had a few games on Sunday, marvelling at the poise and invention of the whole thing, but also the simplicity and immediacy of it. And then I logged off. Hopefully when I'm back in a few weeks there will still be someone to play with. There always has been so far. Become a Eurogamer subscriber and get your first month for £1 Get your first month for £1 (normally £3.99) when you buy a Standard Eurogamer subscription. Enjoy ad-free browsing, merch discounts, our monthly letter from the editor, and show your support with a supporter-exclusive comment flair! Support us View supporter archive More Features Digital Foundry Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090: a new level in graphics performance The Digital Foundry video review - and how the new GPU champion delivers for 4K 120fps gaming. 14 Feature Evercore Heroes wants to wind people up the right way "There's less rage at them, because they didn't end your fun." Feature What games get wrong about horses And what they could do about it. 34 Feature Shout out to all the Overwatch supports - where would we be without you? Merci. 55 Latest Articles Digital Foundry Sennheiser's legendary HD 599 open-back headphones are just £70 at Amazon in the Prime Early Access Sale Comfortable with neutral sound and a wide sound stage. Preview Football Manager's new Console edition is the best you'll get without a PC Getting Touch-right. 1 Splatoon 3 Amiibos will be out next month Ink-coming! 3 Fans think Phil Spencer's shelf is teasing the Xbox Game Pass streaming box UPDATE: Xbox confirms old Keystone prototype. 61 Supporters Only Premium only Off Topic: Take a minute to appreciate Cookin' with Coolio's incredible scallops recipe. What a great book. Premium only Off Topic: Reading City of Glass in comic form "Where exactly am I going?" Premium only Off Topic: Il Buco is a transporting film about a really big hole Underlands. Off-Topic Netflix handled Sandman brilliantly It was Dreamy. 9 Buy things with globes on them And other lovely Eurogamer merch in our official store! Explore our store