Cell stage

In this stage, the player guides a cell of his or her new species through a 2D primordial ooze consisting of other organisms,plants, bubbles, debris, and leftover bits of killed microbes. The player's microbe can eat smaller microbes (if the cell is carnivorous or omnivorous) or leftover bits of food in order to evolve to a being of higher understanding. The player's organism can be attacked and eaten by organisms of larger or similar size (even smaller ones can damage and kill it). The main goal of this stage is to develop a brain and become large and strong enough to move onto land and begin the Creature stage. The Cell stage also serves as a sort of tutorial for the later stages, introducing the basic tools of the fixed camera mode where game play mainly consists of eating and evolving by adding parts to the cell. The view becomes largely compressed if the cell does not have any sight. In other words, the outer area of your screen becomes black and fades away as it gets closer to the middle. This also affects you in the creature stage. There are 5 different levels of the cell stage each with the same goal: eat enough to get bigger. The further you progress, more cells are fighting for food, which could be a challenge if you are a herbivore. the stage begins with your cell swimming out of the comet fragment. Your first objective is to eat 5 meat or plant food particles, depending on whether you started out as a carnivore or an herbivore, respectively. There is also a small herbivorous cell called Minno that can be attacked by carnivores, as well as a carnivorous cell called Goldy that may attempt to attack you. These are cowardly, so they will run once you hurt them. Soon after entering level 1.5, a Pokey cell will be killed by a Chomper, making your first collectible part appear: the Spike. Swim over it to collect it. This does not happen on Hard difficulty though. This also won't happen if you kill the Pokey yourself and collect its spike part. after you evolve for the first time you encounter large green plants for the first time. Kill a Booster during this level to get the Jet part. At the middle of this level, you can challenge a Squirty for the Poison. A tip is to put a spike right beside your mouth, then when you are facing another carnivore head-on, and are bouncing off each other, swim at an angle at the other cell, so that your spike hits it first. If you did it right, you will damage the other cell. You can even kill the huge cells like Snorf. This tactic will not work against a proboscis, another spike, or if you are chasing a cell with poison. the third evolution is when the Cilia part becomes available. Kill a Pinky or Punky cell to unlock one. Kill a Nosey for the Proboscis, the omnivore mouth, or Jet (if you dont have it already). If you

are missing Jet kill 2 Noseys, the first gives Jet, the second Proboscis. Here you may find the poison meteors.

4th level. evolve four times, and this is when the last body part becomes available: the Electric part. Kill a Buzzy cell for it. It is also possible to get it from a Needle Buzzy, but Buzzies are much easier to kill, since they only have one Electric part and the N-Buzzies have three, as well as a spike in their mouth.

5th level. the last evolutionary stage brings you close to the beach (a sandy background provides look), where some Maa cells are laying eggs. They're a good food source if you manage to eat them before they hatch. Also, more meteor bits appear than with other levels. In this stage there will no longer be any bigger cells in the background , as you are a massive cell now, though there still are Epic Cells.