really nice game although i didn't play it much as i am really only into puzzle games it seems really cool, the intro scared me away a little though... and it was a bit anoying that esc stopped the game instead of showing a menu screen

A bit of flavor to help better understand what this game is about: Well, the name "Wormfare" is a play on words "worm" and "warfare", so expect plenty of gunfights, as this is a 3-character tactical puzzle-shooter.

Albeit being written in haste, the plot of this game is a meta-plot that tells, in allegoric form, a story from real life, about three naughty gamers who were exiled from a certain online roleplaying game for doing naughty things.

This game offers a different perspective on the event surrounding a ban of a troublesome player, presented as a villain. In the Eiradirian franchise, you step into the villain's shoes, and from that point of view, you are the liberating hero, and everyone who plays the game by the rules are slaves to the almighty oppressor.
(Creators of this game do not promote, support, and/or endorse hacking and/or terrorism in real life :))))

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Abilities in the game that each character has represent the actual abilities we were able to give ourselves in that other game.

Each character has a unique set of abilities.

Konrad is the tough and mobile fighter. He has more health than others, and an inherent ability to parkour up the walls.
His Active ability (T) - is a sword, allowing him to deal very swift justice in close range, and also boosting his jump height if you time it right. It has a cooldown.
His Passive ability (G) - is a short duration personal armor buff, that makes him even tougher, allowing him to tank through a single force field (which kills other instantly) and only take half damage. Also has a cooldown.

Blay is a utility unit. He has decent mobility in terms of jumping, by using his shotgun to recoil him off the ground. As long as the ground is flat and you got the geometry right, it's easy.
His Active ability (T) - is team teleportation, which lets him "summon" the other two instantly to his location. Cooldown.
His Passive ability (G) - is an instant gravity field, which has dual functionality: first, it alters gravity around blay, letting him jump even higher (stacks with shotgun jump to utterly rediculous results), secondly, it acts as a single time ballistic shield against energy cannons, but it's useless against lead bullets.

The Romanian - crowd control / ranged sniper dps.
Limited in jumping mobility, this unit is a dichotomy. He has highest gun range and packs the biggest gun, the machinegun. He is fairly weak on health and hates being upclose, but has a potent close range ability, that forces him to go upclose to use it.
His Active ability (T) - romanian charm, which pacifies enemies around him, causing them not to return fire for a limited time, allowing Romanian or other teammates to kill them off.
His Passive ability (G) - is a limited duration, on-cooldown rocket boots, letting him effectively fly for 3 seconds.


A bit about the antagonists: they are all mostly inside jokes and easter eggs.
One particular admin is a pro skier in real life, so he has a thematically proper level :)
Another admin is recognizable by his unique hairstyle, I'll just leave that there.
And also the bioresearch lab has a cameo of Rude Bear and his creator at VorpalGames, as he was part of this story in real life, it's where we met.


Some levels can seem really hard, but trust us, they are beatable. Enjoy!

Impressive amount of content! The intro is quite long though, and doesn't really prepare you for the gameplay. I didn't really get anywhere once I started playing unfortunately, I fell down some holes then couldn't work out how to jump high enough to get back out :(

Nicoll, the Intro only plays once, it will not play next time you launch.

To precaution against being stuck, leave Blay at the starting point, and explore with the other characters until you get used to jumping. Just use Blay's T-skill to teleport the teammates back.

The first map you enter is the Worm Village. Not all content in there was finished. The point is to discover 10 wormholes scattered around the map. Each wormhole is a portal into an actual combat level.

The old worm Pierre at the entrance gives you a map. You have to make it towards the green marker on the map, which indicates the next wormhole in the story progression.

Once all wormholes are open, you can replay all the levels at will.

the intro is amazing

Love it! the intro got me pumped up! Audio and the story are well made. NPC's are really funny! However, the controls could get a little more tweaking as it's too fast for me. It made me a bit nauseous when I tried playing konrad and I was trying to back up. He is like bouncing off the walls. I wish there were more killing rather than jumping. (metal-slug-like?) Just my 2 cents. But overall it's a great game. Good job! :)

Hilarious intro! The worm OMG it's so cute!

This game seems to have a lot of work into it (I like the audio), but somehow it didn't appeal to me. The intro is a bit too long for my taste.

That's a really complex entry and the kind of game i love to see around here. Awesome character design regardless of the sketchy art. And the intro was really funny. Good work on this one folks :D

There's a staggering amount of content in this given the time constraints. That said, I think it would have benefited from scaling back a little bit. All the individual aspects are well done, but it's pretty overwhelming from the start, although the help screen is useful. I'd like to see where this goes if you decide to work on it more.

There were just way too many keys to play with a touchpad. From what I could see, it was pretty amazing.

I couldn't figure out the controls, even after looking at the tutorial screen. I haven't managed to encounter any enemies. The game seems to be more complex than the graphics suggest.

Controls were overwhelming, as is the content. I'm sure the game is great but it's way too complicated for me at the moment. Great effort and work put in, though.

This was pretty cool, but the voice in the intro was very loud and annoying, and couldn't be skipped.

All this needs is a tutorial level. There is a shit tonne of content in here that it's sad people aren't experiencing because they're giving up too fast, but it is information overload with all the controls/map etc. and people in jams often don't like that.

Like, if I had to give protips on what to watch out for: Everyone can jump up quite high, if you use Blay you turn on gravity manipulation and then, importantly, shoot your gun and recoil ahead. The other abilities are fairly self explanatory I thought, although Konrad has a walljump it's worth noting.

Again, game is absolutely ram packed with content, really enjoyed it, especially my cameo in it and the Rude Bears, had a wide array of areas, the graphics and animation were really nice. Some visual cues would be nice like the bullets stopping against stuff you're shooting, but these are minor tweaks which could be fixed pretty quickly.

This is by far your best game so far, it feels really good to advance, I really enjoy Lost Vikings style games with multiple characters to take control of. The graphics are really sweet, as is the soundtrack (level 2's soundtrack in particular I found really cool). I kept thinking "this must be the last level" and then there was more and more. And obviously, it's funny to me given I know the history behind it. Great mood as well, fits the theme with the whole underground thing. Found it really enjoyable. Nice one.

This was fun, and the graphics are awesome! Well done!

Great game!

I got to give props to anyone who posts a tutorial for their game. This was pretty cool.

Wow! awesome game! Great work :D loving the sound effects and the graphics, and the story and ... everything xD

Really great looking game. I like the puzzle aspect of finding and disabling security switches to get further. The enemy agents were much more powerful than I expected. Personally I really would have needed some sort of heal ability.

Still, lots of cool graphics, backstory, sounds and level content. Really impressive!

It's a really cool game, but I was seriously put off by the overly long intro cutscene, the text messages popping up over the middle of the screen and the constant chat between the characters that I didn't have time to read because I was trying to play. Graphics-wise it was really, really good, and gameplay was interesting if a bit difficult. A really good effort that's a bit rough around the edges, and impressive for an LD game.