Last updated on November 28th, 2025 at 02:54 am
Nebulous.io – Strategy Game Review
Nebulous.io is a Strategy/Action game from Simplicial Software, LLC, first launched in 4th February 2016.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 2,601+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Nebulous.io Stand Out
Grow your blobs by collecting dots placed throughout the game or gobbling up smaller players. Avoid bigger players attempting to do the same. Compete with other players to become the biggest blob in the universe!
Features:
◆ Find groups, play with friends, and join a clan!
◆ Over 500 skins with unique ways to unlock them and more coming!
◆ NEW: Special Power Ups in the Shop!
◆ Upload your own custom skin for other players to see!
◆ Online Multiplayer (up to 27 players per game)
◆ Offline Single-player
◆ FFA, Timed FFA, Teams, Timed Teams, Capture the Flag, Survival, and Soccer Mode!
◆ Mayhem Mode!
◆ XP, Achievements, and Stats!
◆ Clan System with Clan Wars!
◆ Feeling competitive? Try the Arenas!
◆ Space or Grid Theme
◆ Multiple Control Schemes
◆ Server Leader Boards
Tips:
◆ Eject mass into a black hole to move it
◆ After some time passes your blobs will recombine
◆ Seek refuge from large players inside black holes if you are small
◆ Black holes will break up or shrink your blobs if you are large
◆ Split up when being chased for a small speed boost
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Nebulous.io is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 6th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
Nebulous is 10 years old! Amazing!
- 2 new Skins
- New game mode: RPG
- Can hide or show specific player skins from the player list
- Improved translations
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
- One easter egg :)
Download & Availability
Nebulous.io is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We really like this game and we have been playing it for 5-6 years, but the slider to change difficulty, map size, and max and minimum bots doesnt work. So please fix it.
We used to play this back in 2015 and made so many friends we were wanting to know if there was some way we would be able to get back into our account even though the email connected to our account got deleted/deactivated?? Besides that, we loved this game. We were always looking for people to team up with. It brings back many good memories.
The apple and android version are a night and day difference. We like the quality on Apple but the screen feels so zoomed in compared to android. Also theres no voice chat feature for apple which is sad but we love this game.
We like to play this game a lot sometimes but we almost play it every single day and theres so many games to play :D WOW.
Ive been playing this game since we were 4 and havent gotten bored of it a single time.
We had an old account in Nebulous.io and we lost it it was a super rare account and we're trying to find our old phone so our older brother can do some stuff to get it back so please how do we get it back.
Long dead game, we really miss the high player counts, please blow up again please.
It makes us want to end it sometimes.
The game can be fun, but the same bots have been on this game for almost a decade. We dont even feel like Im actually playing the game with other people.
Ive liked nebulous ever since this app was launched bc we wanted to unlock every skin and defeat blobs and be sneaky and throw potions or objects to the blobs to get eaten or get shrunk. MUST TRY THIS GAME.
Very Little adds game play is simple and has many other game modes + a lot of skins we always play this game when am bored.
Ngl da quality needs improvement,yet this game is super fun! And we like how theres giant blobs eating each other in space! Oh yeah, and this game is pretty cool for a agod io.
For those of you that play this game we actually hate all of you. Games great 10/10 its the people that ruin it. Tell us why ill be 12 big and someone who 1500 will split TO SPECIFICALLY EAT ME. THE ONE WHOS 12 BIG. Yall annoying n need to get a life.
We got iPhone 12 right now and the game just closes and freezes randomly.
Our twin introduced us to nebulous the year it was released eight years ago. Ive been playing ever since, and why wouldnt we? Neb is the gang spot to gang at whenever you need to gang with your boys. Teach your homies the way of the nebulous. Its a tough game because dudes are ganging for 8 years and gang on you but you can gang back with your homies with an ice split or grapple sender. So many combinations to gang with to ultimately gangify the opponent. All we can say is Gang nebulous, Gang.
Make a game mode where there is no sharing and teaming up in a FFA match.
If people create a server, they shouldnt have permission to kick or mute people because they get mad at us for eating their blobs but thats the point of the game. Then they kick us. Ive had to report so many people for it. These people on the game like to power trip. Theyre just bullies taking advantage of their permissions.
We love this game really good but we had bought no ads and after a year or so started ads and got annoyed so we bought it again and it still gives us ads need a refund.
When im tring to play this game and we press the buttons they don't work 50% of the time.
We paid 16 dollars for no ads. It only lasted for two weeks when they guaranteed it would last forever.
Every time we try to eat someone we explode and get killed.
Why is everyones blob so dark? Just makes it hard to see them, we turn off their skin but its all dark blue we cant tell u how many arenas Ive lost because we cant see them on our small iPhone, and having those default color close to black definitely help.
We used to love them game but the skins cost so much points so we saved up a good 10,000 points almost, and then we got signed out and when we signed back in we had 0 points still. We get the reason yall need to make stuff so expensive for game time and crap but the glitch taking away all our points sucked and completely ruined the game for us.
Con esta nueva actualizacin el juego ha estado terrible, los bugs son ms constante y eso caga el juego, deberan arreglar eso, es bien frustrante cuando no puedes jugar tranquilo por estos errores, mientras tanto tienen una estrella( soy jugador de este juego desde el 2016).
Players teaming up very unfair we use to play this game daily but never playing again. Also getting our friends to delete this app very useless game.
What can we do when our level 1400 account that Ive had for almost ten years, which is connected to our old Facebook account that Ive deactivated. We dont have access to it no more so how do we get back into our nebulous account? Its kind of something we didnt think of when deleting that Facebook account. But we really dont understand what to do, we dont want to redo all our levels again, it took us so long to get where we were. So Im kind of feeling hopeless getting back into our account, but we have the passwords and emails, the only things is how can we login using Facebook if that account is permanently deleted, PLEASE HELP.
Love game but needs controller support please.
They split you then you can get destroyed by smallest thing ever.
People use spectate to see the whole screen or team up with friends which allows them to team up on solo players. Makes it unfair for new players or solo players or those who like competition and dont want to take advantage of loopholes to win.
Why would it force us to become smaller we were the 2nd biggest and then this dumb stupid game made us die by multiplying.
Have been playing this game for more than 6 years now. Absolutely great game and really fun when the game doesnt lag every 10 seconds. Thought it was our internet connection but other more heavier games work just fine with no lags. Fixing the lag issues will definitely make this game playable again. Also the ad strategy has to improve. We dont want to watch an ad of a random wine for 15 seconds in the middle of a game that is time based.
Best game ever ever everrrrrrrrrrrr.
Its rlly fun but glitches a lot and spawns people on top of you instantly killing you. Also cant use mode and some other random words in your name for some reason.
This is the worst game ever created in history.
Paid for the no adds option but we are still getting ads. Please correct and we will revise our review. Otherwise this is a fantastic game.
We got this game years ago when we were in 1st grade and we still play it. Im in 8th grade now! Its so fun.
2016 player where is the 120fps option though.
We played this game when we were in 5th grade and just redownloaded it on a new phone. Its a really good quality app, but we wish more people spoke English or there were English only servers. Im not bilingual, but Im trying to learn.
Every setting you change just resets.
Ive been playing on and off for a minute like probably since 2016 or 17 and the servers used to be so full back then to the point where if you got kicked out you probably wont join the same lobby because it was so full now most of the lobbys are 75% bots with the mix of like 2 groups of kids teaming. Auto click also ruined the game that was a huge skill aspect and they made the game pay to play.
Bring back battle royale, but nobody plays it. You removed walls. Now its so boring. Once your 1# theres nothing else to do. Theres no point. You cant build anything or have any perks when your 1# in the leaderboard. And the player base is toxic. 2/10 game.
This game is so obviously a ripoff of agar.io.
Good game overall but the ads arent it.
The game would be good but any time we make any change in the advanced settings it does not stay and when we hit play it completely resets the settings we put it at to the original.
We love the game but at thsi point its getting disappointing. Every server has at least two people teaming killing the entire server and theres really nothing you can do about it sometime you cant even spawn in.
We absolutely hate this game is the worst game ever we do not recommend ever getting the game it is so bad we just hate it.
See we like the game its just everytime we get big and good and stuff we get hit by a spell like poison or bomb it makes us small and then someone comes and ruins our day when we tried veryhard to get there and the spells in our opinion shouldnt be in the game.
The game is undoubtedly amazing, even though it is a simple mobile game, it provides options that are worthy of a pc game. It has incredible modes, but one that in our opinion is the most incredible is not being well explored is the 64 split, it is an improved version of 32, but a single factor takes it out of the scene, the tiny and limited number that is allowed in the game mode, tidy up and allow more players to play in one room, so you will be pleasing all the players. Try to let have more player than 32 split because also 32 split has not sufficient players to make the mode the best as possible. We will be glad if you guys considerate the suggestion.
It would be cool if you could name and customize the bots skin.
Nebulous is nice game. Thanks) But much teams in public.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 9.0.4.0
- Size: 71.24 MB
- iOS: 14.0 or later
- Languages: AF, SQ, AR, AZ, BN, BS, BG, CA, HR, CS, DA, NL, EN, ET, FI, FR, KA, DE, EL, HI, HU, IS, ID, GA, IT, JA, KK, KO, KU, LV, LT, MK, MS, MR, NN, PL, PT, RO, RU, SR, ZH, SI, SK, ES, SV, TA, TH, ZH, TR, UK, VI
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor
- Developer: Simplicial Software, LLC
Last updated: 6th October 2025 | Genre: Strategy, Action | Developer: Simplicial Software, LLC