Worms
Worms is a turn-based strategy game that combines tactical decision-making with elements of randomness. Players control teams of worms and take turns using a wide range of weapons and tools to defeat opposing…
Worms is a strategy developed by Team17, released 1 June 1995 on PlayStation Portable, Amiga CD32, Atari Jaguar and PlayStation. The main story takes about 4 hrs to finish.
What Worms is
Worms is a strategy game developed by Team17 and released in 1995. It was published by GT Interactive Software. It is available on PlayStation Portable, Amiga CD32, Atari Jaguar, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga, DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Worms is a 2D artillery tactical video game developed by Team17 and released in 1995. It is the first game in the Worms series of video games. It is a turn-based game where a player controls a team of worms against other teams of worms that are controlled by a computer or human opponent. The aim is to use various weapons to kill the worms on the other teams and have the last surviving worm(s). Level designs are randomly generated based on seeds, with over 55,000 possible level creations.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and warfare. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Worms series
Worms is the first of 23 entries we hold in the Worms series. The next entry was Worms in 1995. Its critic score of 80 is 8 points above the series average of 72. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Worms holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 3,249 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored 14 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 78, across 214 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 4 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 8 hrs, roughly 2 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Worms launched on 1 June 1995, within three weeks of Tekken 2, Full Throttle, Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams and Terminal Velocity. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Tekken 2, Full Throttle, Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams, Terminal Velocity.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Worms yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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