This video is me making Combat.io: a fake multiplayer .io game that looks like you’re joining servers and fighting real people… but it’s basically just a bunch of bots. I found out a lot of those “online multiplayer” .io games aren’t actually online half the time, so I thought: why not fully commit and make a multiplayer game that isn’t a multiplayer game. The original Combat.io was, uh… “incredibly well programmed” (it wasn’t), but people still enjoyed it—advanced combat mechanics, weapon upgrades, customization, boosters, and my favorite feature: a leaderboard that did absolutely nothing because it was literally a PNG. So I upgraded the whole thing and turned it into a mobile game. I hired a Fiverr dev, leonado (he’s been in a bunch of my Fiverr game dev videos), and we rebuilt the combat to feel way more impactful with hit indicators and better knockback. The bot AI also got a huge upgrade: instead of separate “normal,” “tryhard,” “hostile enemies fighting each other,” and “AFK bar” bots, the new AI does all of it—attacks, runs away, fights other enemies, and sometimes spawns AFK for those free points. And yes, the leaderboard is real now, which honestly takes the doio experience to the next level. Finally, I added mobile controls and shipped it on Google Play so you can download Combat.io and experience fake multiplayer properly.