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EarWorm

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96%Game Brain Score
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optimization
96% User Score Based on 129 reviews

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EarWorm is a single player action game. It was developed by TOR2 and was released on April 17, 2025. It received overwhelmingly positive reviews from players.

You are an Earworm. You are an underworld contractor who hacks memories for a living.  Dive into the memories of your victims in order to unlock the security questions to their bank account.  Gameplay:A pyschedelic first person thriller experience with some basic puzzle elements. This is a short game, roughly 30-40 minutes long and designed to be completed in one sitting. Key Features: Atmos…

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96%
Audience ScoreBased on 129 reviews
graphics20 positive mentions
optimization1 negative mentions
  • Unique and creative cyberpunk aesthetic with impressive visual effects and detailed art direction.
  • Fantastic soundtrack and audio design that greatly enhance the immersive atmosphere.
  • Engaging and clever puzzle mechanics involving exploring fractured memories, creating a rewarding gameplay loop.
  • Very short game length leaving players wanting more content and deeper story development.
  • Dark visuals and heavy graphical effects sometimes make it difficult to see clues clearly, causing frustration.
  • Occasional technical issues such as lack of replayability, minor bugs, and limited accessibility options.
  • graphics
    32 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game's graphics are widely praised for their unique, cyberpunk-inspired aesthetic, combining dark, detailed visuals with an immersive, atmospheric vibe reminiscent of Blade Runner and Hotline Miami. The art style effectively enhances the game's concept and environment, creating a compelling and visually striking experience despite its short length. Overall, the visuals are considered a standout feature that greatly contributes to the game's appeal.

    • “Amazing game, style, visuals.”
    • “Visuals are terrific, music is simple but fitting, gameplay is great, terrific title!”
    • “Great experience, a fantastic artstyle and very viby atmosphere with dramatic lighting and lots of details.”
    • “Ear worm is a 5-10 minute cyberpunk game with deep fried graphic filters where you are a hacker who scans memories to answer your victim's bank security questions.”
    • “Visuals are buzzy and overstimulating, but never so much that it hinders your progress.”
    • “The puzzles are short and simple, but you're mainly paying for the aesthetic anyway.”
  • music
    29 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The music in the game is consistently praised for its fantastic, immersive, and atmospheric quality, perfectly complementing the visuals and gameplay. The soundtrack features catchy, intense, and sometimes glitchy tunes that enhance the psychological horror vibe, creating a unique and memorable audio experience. Many reviewers highlight the music as a key factor in making the game engaging, stylish, and worth playing.

    • “Soundtrack oscillates between ominous drones and catchy memory-looping melodies you’ll hum for weeks.”
    • “The atmosphere, the music, the visuals all come together in this insanely interesting and unique way.”
    • “The audio design was phenomenal; I felt extremely immersed and the use of music genre and sound effects felt unique but seamless.”
  • gameplay
    17 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay is simple yet engaging, blending exploration, memory, and detective elements into a brief but intriguing experience lasting around 15-30 minutes. While the mechanics are clever and well-integrated with the unique visual and audio style, many reviewers wished for a longer duration and additional missions to fully develop the gameplay’s potential. Overall, it offers a fresh, enjoyable loop with room for expansion.

    • “The gameplay is exploration, memory, detective work and is extremely simple to understand and solve.”
    • “Gameplay, while simple, has a nice amount of friction to it.”
    • “The ear worm memory hopping mechanic is amazing and scary as well.”
    • “It's like... walking down a street and seeing a sign that says 'west street' and the password question is 'what street did you grow up on?' That's the gist of the gameplay.”
    • “I don't really complain about length, but I do feel that it cuts about one mission short from having maximum staying power. The gameplay becomes pretty clever in the last mission, so I was hoping for one more pretty tough mission, but it ends before the mechanics have appropriate time to breathe, in my opinion.”
    • “The gameplay and puzzles are pretty simple, but the style makes it very enjoyable.”
  • atmosphere
    12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game delivers a striking and immersive atmosphere, blending dark cyberpunk and ominous techno vibes reminiscent of Blade Runner and the Backrooms. Its unique art style, dramatic lighting, and compelling soundtrack create a memorable and eerie experience that significantly enhances gameplay and puzzle-solving. Overall, the atmosphere is widely praised for its intensity, mood, and contribution to the game's unique identity.

    • “The atmosphere is incredible, the music is awesome and the concept is sick.”
    • “Such a cool atmosphere, a mix of Blade Runner and the Backrooms aesthetic with a heavy techno score, a real ominous feeling, it's awesome to be in.”
    • “The atmosphere, the music, the visuals all come together in this insanely interesting and unique way.”
  • story
    10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The story is praised for its unique concept, strong visuals, and clear storytelling, creating an engaging and fun experience. However, many feel it is too short and would benefit from additional content, characters, and missions to fully develop its premise and mechanics. Overall, the story effectively supports the gameplay but leaves players wanting more depth and length.

    • “Honestly, a one of a kind game idea and it's almost sad this game is so short and not a fully fledged multi-hour story, but it's definitely still worth the price.”
    • “This game is very short but it's a really cool concept with very unique visuals that enhance the story, and I'd love to see it expanded into a longer game with more story, characters, and gameplay.”
    • “Interesting story, characters, and magnificent level design.”
    • “It's almost sad this game is so short and not a fully fledged multi-hour story, but it's definitely still worth the price.”
    • “I feel that it cuts about one mission short from having maximum staying power; the gameplay becomes pretty clever in the last mission, so I was hoping for one more tough mission, but it ends before the mechanics have appropriate time to breathe.”
    • “The game ends before the mechanics and story have enough time to develop and breathe, which reduces its staying power.”
  • replayability
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game offers moderate replayability through slight variations in each playthrough and the opportunity to revisit areas to improve scores, extending its overall gameplay despite its short length.

    • “Each playthrough differs slightly from one another, allowing for some replayability.”
    • “While the game appears short, retrying areas to improve your scores can add a fair bit of replayability.”
  • optimization
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game’s optimization is lacking, leading to performance issues such as dropped frames and slow chat overlays during streaming, which negatively impacts the overall experience.

    • “Wish the game was longer, it felt a bit poorly optimized. Streaming the game caused dropped frames and chat overlays to be much slower compared to other games.”
  • humor
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game features a wicked sense of humor that complements its intense psychological horror style, adding a clever and entertaining dimension to the overall experience.

    • “A short and intense psychological horror game with tons of style, a clever premise, a kick-ass soundtrack and a wicked sense of humor.”
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EarWorm is a action game.

EarWorm is available on PC and Windows.

EarWorm was released on April 17, 2025.

EarWorm was developed by TOR2.

EarWorm has received overwhelmingly positive reviews from players. Most players liked this game for its graphics but disliked it for its optimization.

EarWorm is a single player game.

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