Paper.io style area control. Leave your safe zone, draw a loop, and return to claim the enclosed area. Don't let bots cut your trail. 60 seconds, three players, last claim wins.
Arrow keys or WASD to steer (90° only — no reverse). On mobile use the on-screen pad below the arena, or swipe across it. Loop out of your zone and return home to claim the enclosed area. If your trail gets crossed, you're out.
Paper Territory is an area-control arcade game in the lineage of Paper.io and the classic 1981 arcade title Qix. You and two AI bots each start with a small safe zone on a 38×28 grid. To grow, you leave your zone, trace a closed loop, and return — at which point the loop and everything inside it become yours. The catch: while you're outside your zone, your trail is a glowing tripwire that anyone (including you) can sever.
Two losses end the round for you. Stepping out of bounds, crossing your own trail, or letting another player drive across your trail all wipe you out. Conversely, if you cross an enemy trail while they're away from their territory, you eliminate them and their trail evaporates harmlessly. The bots play with the same rules, so cunning expansion is more valuable than reckless sprints.
Sixty seconds, one human, two bots, lots of territory to grab. The flood-fill claim mechanic means small surgical loops compound fast — three quick loops of ten cells beat one ambitious thirty-cell loop because the long loop gives bots more time to cut you off. Plan a couple of moves ahead and hug your border for the safest gains.
When you return to your own territory after leaving a trail, the game runs a flood-fill from the edges of the grid. Anything that's not reachable from the edges and isn't already your territory becomes yours — that's how loops fill themselves in.
Yes. If you drive over an enemy's trail while they're outside their own territory, the trail "snaps" and they're eliminated. Their trail evaporates and any territory they already owned remains untouched.
Bots have a small kill-bonus in their tile-scoring, so they'll occasionally chase your trail. They aren't perfect, though — sometimes they overcommit and crash into a wall.
Like every other game in this series, 180° turns are forbidden — you can only turn left or right. It keeps the game readable and rewards forward-thinking play.
Possible but rare — head-on collisions between two players kill both. If all three die simultaneously, the round ends with whoever has the largest territory percentage winning.
Sixty seconds. The round can end early if you're the last survivor; otherwise the timer runs down and the highest territory percentage wins.