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Earthworm Jim

Shiny Entertainment · Interplay Inc.

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Action

Franchise: Earthworm Jim · Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: 1996 (DOS), Nov 22, 2017 (Linux), Oct 07, 2008 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), TBD (Mac)

Jim wasn't always a studly super-worm. He was once just a spineless, dirt-eater with no real mission in his life...

51%
positive of 176 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)
Earthworm Jim is a 1994 run and gun video game developed by Shiny Entertainment and published by Playmates Interactive Entertainment. The game was released for the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System, before being subsequently ported to several other video game consoles.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 17 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 42% of 18,304 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.5k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 176 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.99 at DotEmu (2012-04-13)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520112026Week of 2011-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2012-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2012-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2013-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2014-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2014-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2014-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DActionComedyClassicAdventurePlatformerMasterpiece

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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