Worms is a turn-based strategy game where teams of worms battle across bizarre randomly generated landscapes, or across finely crafted custom-designed levels.
Each team takes turns to pick off the opposing team using crazy weapons, tools and other utilities they have discovered or whatever foul strategies they can conjure up.
Worms die when they lose all of their energy or plunge into the icy depths of the water surrounding the landscape. The winning team is the one that manages to survive the mayhem and have worms left standing when the dust settles.
Each worm has an arsenal of devastating weapons at their disposal, some of which have a limited supply so strategy must be used to achieve maximum carnage. Weapons such as bazookas, grenades, dynamite, exploding sheep, old ladies and the dreaded concrete donkey all make an appearance adding to the fun and destruction!
The simple appearance of the game belies the fact that beneath the surface lies a cunningly designed strategy game able to weed out the tactical wheat from the chaff. Worms can in fact be played in many different ways: some players opt for wanton destruction (nicknamed 'the light side'), while others are so underhanded that they wreak vengeance at every opportunity: these so called 'dark-siders' will use any tactics necessary to win the match, typically digging in and making themselves hard to kill.
