http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/Ingress

"The world around you is not what it seems. It's time to move. "

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Ingress is an augmented-reality game created by the Niantic Labs team formerly at Google.

The plot centers around a new kind of matter dubbed 'exotic matter', discovered at CERN. It turns out to have highly unusual properties, and is connected to a mysterious alien intelligence known as the 'Shapers'. In the wake of the discovery, a secret project called the Niantic Project was established to study the effects of Exotic Matter on the human mind and how it connects to the Shapers.

Gameplay is centered around visiting portal locations (in the real world) and then interacting with them. Players can hack portals for supplies, as well as install Resonators to align them to their faction. If the portal is aligned to the enemy faction, the player can attempt to destroy its Resonators to neutralize the portal for seizure by the player's faction, although the player is vulnerable to being attacked in the process.

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The game is free to playnote mostly; see Bribing Your Way to Victory below, and was released for Android on Google Play in 2012 and for iOS on the App Store in 2014.

A new version of the game, Ingress Prime, was released on November 5th, 2018. Instead of the now-defunct RoboVM this version will run on Unity, the same engine used by Niantic's other game Pokémon GO, which will presumably make it easier for the two games to share features. Additionally, all existing player profiles freely carry over from classic Ingress to Prime.

An anime adaptation to go along with Prime, produced by Studio Crafter under the direction of Yuhei Sakuragi and with character designs by Takeshi Honda aired in October 2018 with worldwide streaming from Netflix on April 30, 2019.

See also Pokémon GO and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, two other Niantic games with similar gameplay.

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