Urthwurm

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eMTe
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Urthwurm

Post by eMTe »

One of my favourite coffee-breaks, but I'm unsure about status; I discovered it long time ago and it's dos game. But most likely freeware.

Goal is to navigate the worm through randomly generated dungeon. This is one switch game - pressing spacebar makes worm rise and releasing it makes worm dive. Addictive.

Developer: BdR

Download link:

http://www.the-underdogs.info/game.php?id=3809

Screenshot Pilot cannot (?) make screenshots from dos games unfortunately and those available in web are mostly of forum avatar size. :/ Go grab them yourselves.
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Now that underdogs site is down try the developers site: http://members.home.nl/bas.de.reuver/files.html
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An amazing coffeebreak casual game. Maybe the best we have in one-key genre. I really loved this after playing for seconds. I will propably keep this around. :)
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Re: Urthwurm

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Hmm, game is a bit out-dated I think. It's a nice concept, but it's also very simple and there's not much gameplay in it. I also had a little problem to play the game right. When I played it using Windows XP, it reacted a little sluggish to my key commands and so I crashed into the ceiling or the floor several times even if I gave the right command. When I used DosBox t reacted better, but the whole game was a little slow and was very easy because of that.

But it's impressing to see that games with 17kb can still be fun.
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Re: Urthwurm

Post by Drasir-Vel »

A good and simple game. It doesn't manage to get your adrenaline going. But can be a nice alternative to minesweeper or solitaire.