Death Worm

By: Derek Yu

On: June 27th, 2007

Sandworms are awesome. These mythological beasts titillate the imagination. The idea of monsters living under our feet simultaneously scares us and seduces us.

Tremors. Dune. Beetlejuice. The Mongolian Death Worm. These are the stuff of NIGHTMARES.

But did you ever stop to think that, you know, they’re just animals trying to survive, just like us? Did you ever try to step in their shoes (sock?) for a moment?

Well, now you can! Death Worm lets you play as a giant sandworm, and it’s a hoot. The feeling of playing as one of these monstrous entities is artfully captured, and exceedingly fun. There’s nothing like hiding in the sand below the unsuspecting surface-dwellers, only to pop out for a frightening kill before diving back in. And the music (lifted from Streets of Rage) somehow fits perfectly with all the weirdness going on.

The surprising thing is how challenging the game is and how much timing and strategy is involved in staying alive as the waves upon waves of angry humans come hunting for you. Par excellence!

Posted in Action, Freeware, Highly Recommended, Unique / Bizarre, Windows | Tags: JTR

Guert

Quite interesting game you found there! Finaly a game where you can play those worms! :D
Rz.

it’d be nice to be fuckin’ ginormous like the sandworms in Dune. those mofos are like a mile long
krizzle

really great game!
GP Lackey

I’m just glad to be introduced to a cryptozoological animal I didn’t already know about! (The Mongolian death worm)
PHeMoX

Uuuhm just for the record, since Wikipedia doesn’t quite explain it’s an ‘urban legend’ kind of thing … :-p

But the Mongolian Death Worm should be considered to be the ‘Chupacabra’ from Mongolia …..

Still this game it’s idea is pure genius, definitely going to check it out!
PHeMoX

Woopa! Nevermind, it says ‘cryptid’ all over the place…
GP Lackey

This game cracks me up. Soaring majestically through the air, eating an entire flock of birds, and then coming down on an elephant.

The late game gets crazy with huge fleets of airplanes appearing, along with whole armies of paratroopers.
http://studioeres.com/games/ rinkuhero

That’s what I loved most about it too, eating the birds in the air.
Radix

Oddly enough, yesterday I thought “what about a game about sandworms”… and dismissed it.
Chris L

For reasons we’re still researching, the game’s humor is increased thrice-fold when you have a soundtrack of Buddy Holly music.
Chris L

Try playing with a soundtrack of Buddy Holly. The humor is instantly quintupled.
Rz.

thanks mate, i didn’t get what you were saying the first time. fuck.
Radix

Play with Buddy Holly, and you’ll find the humour is pentupled.
Neon

Play with Buddy Holly, and youâ€™ll find the humour is sextupled. Ha sex.
GP Lackey

If you play with Buddy Holly the humour is an octagon!
Twisted Rabbit

EVERYONE DO THE WORM!!!
Gr.Viper

Nice little game…
Before the update the worm got fat pretty fast and there was little challenge in later levels. And with save/load feature I was able to feed it to fill a third of the screen.
Chris L

Dammit, inadvertent math joke death spiral. They’ll keep getting un-funny-er and un-funny-er, but zero humor will never be reached.
krizzle

stop playing around with buddy holly, hes had enough of it :[
Jonathan Blow

This game is So Awesome.
http://www.g4g.it FireSword

“mythological beasts” <--- hahaha nice find, i ll give it a try.
http://www.rsblsb.com Shawn

Death Worm is fantastic
Mastatsan

I don’t remember what it’s called, but I have a copy on my computer with a weird filename… It’s a song they played on Spongebob Squarepants, with a really happy-sounding lady singing

“things that bother you never bother me, I feel happy and fine! Living in the sunlight loving in the moonlight having a wonderful time!”

It’s hilarious to play that over and over while enjoying this game.
Mastatsan

yeah.. I totally screwed those lyrics up…. and the song’s by a person called Tiny Tim… but I swear it sounds like a lady… maybe I’m confused…
haowan

I’m hob-nobbin’
with my horse Dobbin,
I left my job in
The city
I’m sittin’ pretty
in plenty of sunshine

I wash my face in
the old tin basin
started racin’ with Rover
We bubble over
in plenty of sunshine

Read my paper ‘neath an apple tree
No skyscraper hides the sun from me

The house is roomy
The garden’s bloomy
There’s no place gloomy
to mope in
We’re in the open
with plenty of sunshine!
Toom

DEATH WORRRRRRRM
http://travis.dixon.net.au trav

It’s pretty fun, eventually you get aliens.

A little on the easy side though for a patient player who’s content to sulk deep beneath the desert until burrowing creatures have restored your health
PHeMoX

*â€œthings that bother you never bother me, I feel happy and fine! Living in the sunlight loving in the moonlight having a wonderful time!â€*

They should definitely make a horror movie with someone singing that song, who then get’s eaten by a giant worm! ;P
makeshifter

man prancing through the fields :things that bother you never bother me, I feel happy and fine! Living in the sunlight loving in the moonlight having a wonderful t- AGHHHHH! OM MY! A FUCKING WOR- IT’S GOT MY LEG! OHHH THE PAIN! JESUS CHRIST ! AGHHH I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW I HAD THIS MUCH BLOOD! OHH JESUS! SOME BODY BE MY MERCY ANGLE! MAKE IT STOP! AGHHHH WHERES MY LOWER HALF!?! AGHHHHHHHhhhhhhh….. *GURGLE* *SPLOISH*

bird watcher half a mile off: hmmmm… IRONY!
makeshifter

man prancing through the fields: things that bother you never bother me, I feel happy and fine! Living in the sunlight loving in the moonlight having a wonderful t- AGHHHHH! OM MY! A FUCKING GIANT WOR- IT’S GOT MY LEG! OHHH THE PAIN! JESUS CHRIST ! AGHHH I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW I HAD THIS MUCH BLOOD! OHH JESUS! SOME BODY BE MY MERCY ANGLE! MAKE IT STOP! AGHHHH WHERES MY LOWER HALF!?! AGHHHHHHHhhhhhhh….. *GURGLE* *SPLOISH*

bird watcher half a mile off: hmmmm… IRONY!
makeshifter

no seriously i’ve had this game for a while.i really is fun. to the creator i say
keep it up.
nizzate

there should be different levels after you get a certain score, like the next level could be new york city or tokyo. Still an awesome game.
Shabadage

I wonder if the Graboid! Arcade game played like this…
Chris L

“Living in the Sunlight Loving in the Moonlight” cover done by the late, great, Tiny Tim is the song.
Ron

you suck ass
iggy

where can you download it besides from softonic coz that looks really dodgy