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Worms Armageddon

Team17 put a Holy Hand Grenade in my PC and I’m never recovering.
4.0
out of 5.0
Good
Review Verdict
Hot seat perfection and I will fight anyone who says otherwise
Two words: exploding sheep.

Okay this game is insane and you need it

So my friend Dave gave me a copy of this last week and I have not stopped playing it. Like I’m serious. I stayed up until 3am just doing the training missions because I kept messing up the ninja rope and I REFUSE to let a rope beat me.

Okay so you have worms. Little worms with names. Mine are all named after wrestlers right now because I thought that was funny. You drop them on a map and you have to kill the other team’s worms before they kill yours. Sounds simple right. It is NOT simple. There’s wind. The terrain blows up and changes. You have like 50 different weapons and some of them I still don’t even know what they do. I accidentally used something called a Concrete Donkey yesterday and I don’t want to talk about what happened to Dave’s worms.

The weapons are so dumb and I love it. There’s a sheep that walks into people and explodes. There’s a banana bomb that splits into smaller bombs. There’s the Holy Hand Grenade and it plays the Monty Python sound and I lost it the first time we heard it.

We’ve been doing hot seat on my CRT and it is the best thing. You HAVE to play this with someone in the room. It doesn’t even matter if they’re good at games. My friend Benjamin beat me twice yesterday and I don’t want to talk about that either.

Single player is fine as well. There’s missions and training and stuff. I’ve been doing it to practice a lot, because everyone is getting really good with the bazooka and I need to step up. But honestly the second you have someone to play against hot seat this game becomes like a different thing entirely.

This runs fine on my Pentium II. Looks great on my monitor. The sound is hilarious, the worms react to everything with little voice clips and there’s different voice packs you can put on them. I gave my team the “Angry Scots” voice and now I can’t turn it off.

I don’t really have anything bad to say. Maybe that playing alone gets old faster? But why would you play alone when this exists. Get someone over and have some fun.

Final Summary
I don’t know what else to tell you. This game is hilarious, it’s deep, it runs on basically anything, and it’s the most fun I’ve had in local multiplayer since I got my N64. Team17 did something really good here. If you have friends and a computer you owe it to yourself.
Editor Note
This review was written by Maniac in 1999 and has been restored as part of the POCG archive revival. Nothing has been changed except basic formatting cleanup. For the record, Worms Armageddon is still on Steam in 2026 and Team17 has kept it updated for over two decades. The Concrete Donkey is still terrifying. — Adam Richardson, April 2026
How to Play Today
Your options for getting this game running in 2026
Original Hardware

Should run on any late 90s Windows PC without issue. If you’ve got a working Windows 98 or XP machine, this one’s a no-brainer. Physical CD copies show up at thrift stores occasionally.

Modern Re-releases

Worms Armageddon is available on Steam and has been kept reasonably up to date by Team17. The Steam version supports online multiplayer, which the original obviously did not. Worth the few bucks it usually costs during a sale.

PC Availability

Steam is your best bet. GOG also carries it DRM-free if that’s your preference.

Other Options

There are several other Worms games on modern platforms (Worms W.M.D., Worms Rumble) but honestly Armageddon and Worms World Party are still the definitive versions for most people who grew up with this series. Don’t let anyone talk you into starting with a newer one.

4.0
Good
Platform
Windows 98
Released
1999
Developer
Team 17
Publisher
MicroProse
Reviewed
09/25/1999
Restored
April 15, 2026