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Earthworms

All Those Moments · Ultimate Games S.A. · 2018-02-23

Steam

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Aug 24, 2018 (Nintendo Switch), Feb 23, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Detective story in a hand-painted, surrealist world of science-fiction. Full of riddles and puzzles, with a tone of pulp, horror and comedy. Inspired by movies and TV shows like: Donnie Darko, X Files, Stranger Things, Twin Peaks.

Earthworms is an Adventure, Casual, and Indie game released in 2018, priced at $0.95, with Mostly Positive (77% of 196 reviews) and an owner estimate of 100,000 .. 200,000.

0
playing now
77%
positive of 196 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$0.95
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 29% of 28,914 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.9k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 196 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.46 at GameBillet (2026-09-10) · bundled 6×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 40 of 51 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820182026Week of 2018-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$5.99$0.482018-02-232026-08-142018-02-23 — best price $4.792018-09-17 — best price $3.592018-12-20 — best price $2.392019-03-29 — best price $5.992019-08-30 — best price $0.592020-01-03 — best price $0.592020-05-08 — best price $5.992020-08-10 — best price $0.592020-11-25 — best price $0.592021-03-07 — best price $0.592021-09-04 — best price $0.592021-12-22 — best price $0.592022-04-21 — best price $0.592022-08-22 — best price $0.592022-12-22 — best price $0.592023-04-10 — best price $0.592023-10-30 — best price $0.712024-02-19 — best price $0.712024-06-14 — best price $5.992024-07-12 — best price $5.982024-08-12 — best price $0.712024-09-16 — best price $5.022024-11-11 — best price $5.992025-01-06 — best price $0.712025-03-12 — best price $2.702025-06-28 — best price $0.572025-08-30 — best price $4.952025-10-16 — best price $0.572025-11-26 — best price $5.992026-03-20 — best price $5.932026-04-28 — best price $0.502026-05-20 — best price $0.582026-06-24 — best price $4.442026-08-07 — best price $5.052026-08-14 — best price $4.84
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing1 DLC

2 supported languages: Polish, English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2018-02-23 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2DDarkFunnyIndieCasualSurrealRelaxingStrategyAdventureDark Humor

Census log

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

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