$14.99Worms Ultimate Mayhem Cartoon warfare with terrible aim
Worms in full 3D, with up to four players trading turns, flattening maps and arguing over voice chat. You pick ridiculous weapons, build secret ones, and settle it in Deathmatch, Statue Defend or your own custom rules. Simple to join, easy to laugh through, made for co-op friends on one couch or online.
Is Worms Ultimate Mayhem worth it?
Worms Ultimate Mayhem is worth it if…
- you like slow, careful planning between loud, silly payoffs
- you want local play where four people share one screen
- you enjoy making custom matches and custom weapons
- you like cartoon strategy with full destruction
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Turns with friends, on one screen or online
This is turn-based cartoon warfare built for a group. Up to four players can share one screen, with split screen keeping everyone in the action, or meet online for standard and ranked matches across modes like Deathmatch, Statue Defend and Homelands.
You take your turn, then hand over the chaos. You move a worm, pick a weapon, line up the shot, then retreat while the picture-in-picture window follows the damage. Voice chat runs during matches, which is useful for teaming up and better for talking trash. Custom game settings let co-op friends set the match the way they like it before the first banana bomb flies.
Ridiculous weapons and maps that fall apart
The arsenal is the joke and the strategy. Bazooka, Dynamite, Holy Hand Grenade, Banana Bomb, Baseball Bat and Super Sheep sit alongside oddities like Alien Abduction, Flood, Old Woman, Starburst and Bovine Blitz, plus falling cows if your aim is feeling agricultural.
You can also build your own weapons from components and keep them secret until you fire them. Everything happens on fully destructible 3D landscapes, many of them randomly generated, which you can save and share. You deform the ground in real time, so cover never lasts and a bad shot still rearranges the map for everyone.
Dressed-up worms with strong opinions
Before the fighting starts, you name your team and dress the fighters. Hats, glasses, moustaches, voices, flags and even the gravestone left behind when a worm dies are yours to choose.
It fits the tone of the single-player campaign, which strings shooting challenges, speed runs and odd missions together with voiced narrative sequences, and the challenges that teach skills like piloting a Jetpack or steering a Parachute. That content is a decent warm-up. The main event for co-op friends is still loading into a custom map with your own team of fashion-conscious explosives experts.
What else should co-op friends know?
Can you play it with friends on one computer?
Yes. Because turns are taken one at a time, offline multiplayer works on a single screen for up to four players, with split screen and a picture-in-picture display that follows attacks while you move your worm to safety.
What do you actually do together in a match?
You take turns moving worms around a 3D map, choosing weapons and utilities, and trying to knock out the other team while the landscape crumbles. Modes include Deathmatch, Statue Defend and Homelands, plus custom settings and randomly generated maps you can save and share.
Can you play it solo too?
Yes. There are over 70 single-player missions and challenges drawn from two earlier 3D Worms games, with shooting tasks, timed runs and skill challenges like Jetpack flying and Parachute steering, tied together with voiced story sequences.
How much can you change about your team and weapons?
A lot. You name the team, pick hats, glasses, moustaches, voices, flags and gravestones, and you can construct your own weapons from components. Those homemade weapons stay hidden from opponents until you use them, which makes the first firing memorable.
