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Wurm Online

Wurm Online is a totally unique, highly accessible online wilderness MMORPG that will drag you in, shake you up and down, bite you, annoy you, drive you completely mad and leave you wondering why you didn’t…

68 12 December 2012 Free to play

Wurm Online is an adventure, released 12 December 2012 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It is free to play.

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What Wurm Online is

Wurm Online was released in 2012. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Welcome to Wurm, your new journey starts here. Step into a world born around the idea that sandboxes should give ultimate freedom, Wurm Online aims to hold true to the original sandbox vision. With sprawling seamless lands with no instances and a true open world experience Wurm Online offers limitless opportunities for you to write your story.
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How it plays

Its themes are historical, open world and sandbox. Available modes: Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) and Multiplayer. There are 80 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Wurm Online holds a critic score of 68 out of 100. That places it above 30% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 2 points below the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3 or equivalent AMD CPU, 4 GB RAM and GTX 560. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Wurm Online launched on 12 December 2012, within three weeks of Far Cry 3, Game Dev Tycoon, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragonborn and Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Far Cry 3, Game Dev Tycoon, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragonborn, Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Quick answers

Wurm Online — frequently asked questions

When did Wurm Online come out?
Wurm Online was released on 12 December 2012 for Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
Is Wurm Online free?
Yes — Wurm Online is free to play.
What are the minimum PC requirements for Wurm Online?
At minimum, Wurm Online needs Intel Core i3 or equivalent AMD CPU, 4 GB RAM, GTX 560 graphics, 4 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Wurm Online?
The PC version needs about 4 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("4 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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