Website: www.ingress.com
Platform: Android, iOS
Though not the first Augmented Reality MMO game, Ingress certainly put it on the map with users across the world.
Users take on the roles of "Agents" who join one of the two factions of ingress to battle for control of portals and resources. The game is a full MMOG as it consists entirety players and no NPC's.
Players use their devices to capture portals that are located in real world locations using a variety of tools at their disposal, while at the same time defending their own portals from being captured by the opposing factions.
Ingress is players by tens of thousands of players across the world in real time. Portal locations are usually landmarks or public pieces of art or places of importance or interest, this combined with the fact that if you want to capture a portal you have to go to its real world location adds a bigger sense of purpose and passion to this game.
It may be of interest to know that the locations of portals in Ingress were for a majority submitted by its early players, and those locations were the basis of pokestops in the hit AR game "Pokemon Go". Despite the game having a huge playerbase before, he release of pokemon go also brought Ingress into the spotlight and he game has since see a massive surge in players.
One of Ingress's most fun features in the social aspect, not only can you talk with fellow players, but many players meet up to play together, and Niantic, Ingress's developer holds events in the real world which many players take part in all over the world that also serves to drive the story and lore of the game forward.
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