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Worms

Team17 Digital Ltd · 2011-10-19

SteamPlayStation Store

Strategy

Franchise: Worms · Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Oct 31, 1995 (DOS), 1996 (Mac), Nov 17, 1995 (Amiga), Q4 1995 (Amiga CD32), May 15, 1998 (Atari Jaguar), Oct 19, 2011 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Throw a grenade down memory lane with the original and classic turn-based strategy game Worms™! Up to 4 teams of worms do battle over an ever-changing battlefield with falling weapon crates, crazed exploding sheep and more besides. Winner of many industry awards, find out what all the fuss was about.

Worms is a 2011 Strategy game priced at $7.99, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (83% of 706 reviews).

1
playing now
83%
positive of 706 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
76/100
IGDB user rating (211 ratings)
2.76★
PlayStation Store rating (843 ratings)
4h
to beat · rushed 1h · completionist 8h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$7.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 07:00 UTC (census sample)

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.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 32 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity up 39% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 17% of 14,289 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 28k–56k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 706 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.79 at Humble Store (2018-04-09) · bundled 9×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $7.99 · on sale 110 of 161 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720172026Week of 2017-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

602026-09-15 16:00 — 5 players2026-09-17 01:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 08:00 — 2 players2026-09-19 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 05:00 — 2 players2026-09-27 13:00 — 2 players2026-09-28 20:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 19:00 — 6 players2026-10-04 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 18:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 17:00 — 2 players2026-10-12 00:00 — 2 players2026-10-13 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 3 players2026-10-15 07:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
40Jul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 0 · peak 0Nov 2012 — avg 1 · peak 5Mar 2013 — avg 1 · peak 4Jul 2013 — avg 1 · peak 8Nov 2013 — avg 2 · peak 27Mar 2014 — avg 1 · peak 6Jul 2014 — avg 2 · peak 11Nov 2014 — avg 4 · peak 24Mar 2015 — avg 1 · peak 9Jul 2015 — avg 1 · peak 6Nov 2015 — avg 2 · peak 16Mar 2016 — avg 2 · peak 8Jul 2016 — avg 2 · peak 12Nov 2016 — avg 2 · peak 16Mar 2017 — avg 2 · peak 8Jul 2017 — avg 2 · peak 11Nov 2017 — avg 1 · peak 9Mar 2018 — avg 2 · peak 9Jul 2018 — avg 2 · peak 8Nov 2018 — avg 2 · peak 12Mar 2019 — avg 2 · peak 7Jul 2019 — avg 2 · peak 10Nov 2019 — avg 2 · peak 7Mar 2020 — avg 3 · peak 11Jul 2020 — avg 2 · peak 10Nov 2020 — avg 3 · peak 10Mar 2021 — avg 2 · peak 8Jul 2021 — avg 2 · peak 6Nov 2021 — avg 2 · peak 9Mar 2022 — avg 3 · peak 11Jul 2022 — avg 1 · peak 5Nov 2022 — avg 3 · peak 12Mar 2023 — avg 3 · peak 10Jul 2023 — avg 2 · peak 9Nov 2023 — avg 2 · peak 8Jun 2024 — avg 3 · peak 14Oct 2024 — avg 3 · peak 8Apr 2025 — avg 3 · peak 10Feb 2026 — avg 3 · peak 11Aug 2026 — avg 3 · peak 8
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$9.37$0.922015-01-012026-08-282015-01-01 — best price $1.992015-07-24 — best price $4.262016-01-21 — best price $7.992016-10-10 — best price $7.992017-08-07 — best price $7.992018-01-30 — best price $1.992018-07-18 — best price $2.002018-12-03 — best price $1.992019-04-08 — best price $5.862019-08-30 — best price $7.992019-12-09 — best price $1.592020-03-14 — best price $1.052020-06-18 — best price $7.992020-09-26 — best price $6.772020-12-23 — best price $7.992021-03-29 — best price $7.992021-06-20 — best price $1.452021-10-15 — best price $1.372022-01-28 — best price $1.432022-05-06 — best price $1.592022-09-10 — best price $6.922022-12-12 — best price $1.022023-05-21 — best price $1.062023-10-26 — best price $1.992024-02-24 — best price $6.922024-07-12 — best price $1.672024-10-17 — best price $7.992025-02-15 — best price $7.992025-06-27 — best price $7.992025-09-17 — best price $7.752025-12-11 — best price $1.392026-04-03 — best price $1.432026-06-27 — best price $7.992026-08-28 — best price $5.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

5451072026-06-02 — 124 pageviews2026-06-06 — 127 pageviews2026-06-10 — 120 pageviews2026-06-14 — 148 pageviews2026-06-18 — 128 pageviews2026-06-22 — 138 pageviews2026-06-26 — 238 pageviews2026-06-30 — 138 pageviews2026-07-04 — 203 pageviews2026-07-08 — 129 pageviews2026-07-12 — 121 pageviews2026-07-16 — 127 pageviews2026-07-20 — 121 pageviews2026-07-24 — 122 pageviews2026-07-28 — 161 pageviews2026-08-01 — 128 pageviews2026-08-05 — 143 pageviews2026-08-09 — 171 pageviews2026-08-13 — 338 pageviews2026-08-17 — 201 pageviews2026-08-21 — 178 pageviews2026-08-25 — 295 pageviews2026-08-29 — 185 pageviews2026-09-02 — 157 pageviews2026-09-06 — 206 pageviews2026-09-10 — 182 pageviews2026-09-14 — 167 pageviews2026-09-18 — 144 pageviews2026-09-22 — 177 pageviews2026-09-26 — 166 pageviews2026-09-30 — 173 pageviews2026-10-04 — 154 pageviews2026-10-08 — 135 pageviews2026-10-12 — 148 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPShared/Split Screen PvPRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox 360 (Xbox)38,28917%12
PS3 (PlayStation)20,59820%14

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DFunnyRetro1990'sActionArcadeClassicStrategyTurn-BasedMultiplayer

Census log

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

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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