A few years ago, Crescent Moon released a new take on the battle royale formula with Axe.io, a beautifully polygonal .io game that challenges you to hurl an obscene number of axes at your Viking opponents. It rightly demonstrated that these minimalist multiplayer experiences don't have to look like those created in Microsoft Paint.
Now developer Yvette Games is back with an even more impressive and visually ambitious effort in Rider.io. As the name suggests, you play as a rider riding a horse and a wide variety of other animals. These range from the real, like tigers and, uh, moose, to downright mythical, like a fire-breathing dragon.
You'll start on foot though, with a simple bow and arrow, and you'll need to collect coins and defeat other players to level up, earning new mounts in the process. You earn mounts at different level intervals, and there are a wide variety of cosmetic options to unlock, both for your rider and your mounts. All this is played in real time, against real opponents.
To celebrate the launch of Rider.io this week, we've teamed up with publisher Crescent Moon Games to give you, dear readers, a chance to get some free in-game swag. We've got five iOS codes and five Android codes which we plan to distribute in just over a week.
For a chance to win, simply complete one of the Gleam forms below, but please pay close attention to the platform details above each form.
We need your full name and email address so we can contact you within a week if you win. We also ask that you read our full terms and conditions before signing up, listed here.
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PT - Gift Rider.io - Android
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PT - Rider.io Gift - iOS
In the meantime, why not become a Rider.io affiliate by grabbing it on iOS via the App Store or Android via Google Play. It will launch this week, so if it's not available to download yet, try again later.
