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Wurm Online

Code Club AB · 2020-07-24

Steam

AdventureFree To PlayIndieMassively MultiplayerRPG

Modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)

Releases: Dec 12, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 12, 2012 (Mac), Dec 12, 2012 (Linux)

A sandbox MMORPG that has pushed the boundaries on what it means to be open world and stood the test of time. Dig, mine, shape the world around you and make your lasting mark!

Wurm Online is an Adventure, Free To Play, Indie, Massively Multiplayer game released in 2020, estimated to have 500,000 .. 1,000,000 owners, with Mixed (62% of 2577 reviews) sentiment and is free-to-play.

152
playing now
62%
positive of 2.6k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
68/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
86/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

152 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Wurm Online is a 3D massively multiplayer online video game (MMO) developed by Code Club AB. Development started in 2002-2003 by friends Rolf Jansson and Markus Persson, and was released for personal computers using Java in 2006. Both player versus player and realm versus realm combat are possible in the game.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 152 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 130 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~16/week).
  • · Review velocity down 29% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (599 reviews).
  • · Top 8% of 29,427 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
32732720202026Week of 2020-07-01: 327 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 272 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 192 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 94 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 8 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

161492026-09-16 05:00 — 69 players2026-09-17 13:00 — 93 players2026-09-18 20:00 — 128 players2026-09-20 04:00 — 108 players2026-09-21 11:00 — 66 players2026-09-22 19:00 — 142 players2026-09-24 02:00 — 113 players2026-09-25 10:00 — 60 players2026-09-26 17:00 — 155 players2026-09-28 01:00 — 132 players2026-09-29 08:00 — 49 players2026-09-30 16:00 — 120 players2026-10-01 23:00 — 158 players2026-10-03 07:00 — 70 players2026-10-04 15:00 — 161 players2026-10-05 23:00 — 142 players2026-10-07 06:00 — 77 players2026-10-08 14:00 — 106 players2026-10-09 21:00 — 140 players2026-10-11 05:00 — 85 players2026-10-12 12:00 — 90 players2026-10-13 20:00 — 154 players2026-10-15 03:00 — 95 players2026-10-15 19:00 — 152 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
696109Aug 2020Aug 2026Aug 2020 — avg 696 · peak 1,226Oct 2020 — avg 370 · peak 657Dec 2020 — avg 238 · peak 415Feb 2021 — avg 189 · peak 302Apr 2021 — avg 156 · peak 242Jun 2021 — avg 143 · peak 220Aug 2021 — avg 134 · peak 225Oct 2021 — avg 127 · peak 236Dec 2021 — avg 112 · peak 218Feb 2022 — avg 113 · peak 210Apr 2022 — avg 117 · peak 217Jun 2022 — avg 126 · peak 221Aug 2022 — avg 128 · peak 217Oct 2022 — avg 121 · peak 230Dec 2022 — avg 125 · peak 215Feb 2023 — avg 132 · peak 256Apr 2023 — avg 132 · peak 228Jun 2023 — avg 109 · peak 189Aug 2023 — avg 122 · peak 230Oct 2023 — avg 149 · peak 271Dec 2023 — avg 140 · peak 251Feb 2024 — avg 139 · peak 252Apr 2024 — avg 119 · peak 200Jun 2024 — avg 118 · peak 207Aug 2024 — avg 163 · peak 482Oct 2024 — avg 235 · peak 434Dec 2024 — avg 179 · peak 319Feb 2025 — avg 163 · peak 304Apr 2025 — avg 151 · peak 278Jun 2025 — avg 133 · peak 221Aug 2025 — avg 140 · peak 248Oct 2025 — avg 190 · peak 325Dec 2025 — avg 154 · peak 279Feb 2026 — avg 157 · peak 288Apr 2026 — avg 142 · peak 257Jun 2026 — avg 137 · peak 395Aug 2026 — avg 119 · peak 219
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Attention

162282026-06-01 — 72 pageviews2026-06-05 — 49 pageviews2026-06-09 — 41 pageviews2026-06-13 — 35 pageviews2026-06-17 — 31 pageviews2026-06-21 — 52 pageviews2026-06-25 — 45 pageviews2026-06-29 — 45 pageviews2026-07-03 — 58 pageviews2026-07-07 — 43 pageviews2026-07-11 — 49 pageviews2026-07-15 — 42 pageviews2026-07-19 — 44 pageviews2026-07-23 — 66 pageviews2026-07-27 — 57 pageviews2026-07-31 — 43 pageviews2026-08-04 — 35 pageviews2026-08-08 — 55 pageviews2026-08-12 — 45 pageviews2026-08-16 — 45 pageviews2026-08-20 — 35 pageviews2026-08-24 — 43 pageviews2026-08-28 — 39 pageviews2026-09-01 — 44 pageviews2026-09-05 — 46 pageviews2026-09-09 — 44 pageviews2026-09-13 — 40 pageviews2026-09-17 — 69 pageviews2026-09-21 — 39 pageviews2026-09-25 — 47 pageviews2026-09-29 — 61 pageviews2026-10-03 — 54 pageviews2026-10-07 — 61 pageviews2026-10-10 — 41 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
27%
earned "Wurmian"
2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxMulti-playerMMOPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerIn-App PurchasesFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)9690%80

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

PvEPvPRPGIndieMMORPGFantasySandboxBuildingSurvivalAdventure

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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