Worms Clan Wars

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Worms Clan Wars is a single player and multiplayer turn-based strategy game with a comedy theme. It was developed by Team17 Digital Ltd and was released on August 15, 2013. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

"Worms Clan Wars" is a turn-based artillery strategy game featuring single-player and multiplayer modes. Players command a team of worms and use a variety of weapons to defeat opposing teams on destructible environments. The game includes online clan support, customization options, and a level editor for creating and sharing user-made content.

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Audience ScoreBased on 1,378 reviews

gameplay40 positive mentions

stability24 negative mentions

Worms Clan Wars is a fun turn-based artillery game that blends chaos and strategy, making it endlessly enjoyable, especially with friends.
The game features a variety of weapons and customization options, allowing players to create unique teams and strategies.
The addition of Steam Workshop support enhances replayability with user-generated content, including maps and sound packs.

The online multiplayer community is nearly dead, making it difficult to find matches, which limits the game's longevity.
The game suffers from technical issues, including crashes, lag, and poor optimization, particularly on certain hardware setups.
The AI is often unchallenging and can lead to a dull single-player experience, lacking the excitement found in multiplayer matches.

gameplay
128 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The gameplay of "Worms Clan Wars" is a mix of classic mechanics and new features, offering chaotic, physics-based matches that can be both fun and frustrating. While it retains the turn-based strategy of previous entries, players have noted issues with imprecise controls and sluggish mechanics, particularly in movement and aiming. Despite these drawbacks, the game introduces interesting elements like dynamic water and class mechanics, providing depth and strategic options, especially in multiplayer modes.
- “Combined, all of this makes for rather chaotic matches, which are enhanced by the gameplay being very physics-based, often leading to basic attacks triggering wacky interactions and/or chain reactions.”
- “With that said, Worms Clan Wars offers a lot of skill-based mechanics to master, such as aiming projectiles to account for their different trajectories and the way wind may influence them.”
- “The gameplay is fun, and there are many interesting ways to utilize the different tools in the game, and these items are not only combat-focused either.”
- “This game has the most frustrating mechanics out of any game I've played; it's the worst introduction to the Worms franchise, and I am not buying another!”
- “Clan Wars feels lacking in these aspects; trying to move, aim, and enact strategies all feels imprecise, making the gameplay often frustrating.”
- “The mechanics are so sluggish and slow, not the pace required for Worms at all.”
graphics
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The graphics of the game receive mixed reviews, with some praising the vibrant colors and cartoonish style, while others criticize significant graphical bugs, poor performance, and outdated visuals. Many players report issues with frame rates and glitches, particularly on Windows 11, leading to a frustrating experience. Overall, while there are elements of charm in the design, the graphics are seen as lacking clarity and polish compared to earlier titles in the series.
- “The updated visuals of Clan Wars barely show their age thanks to the fitting cartoonish style used, with the interface in particular feeling playful, yet snappy and readable.”
- “The game offers some pleasant graphics and really vibrant colors, although some ugly glitches here and there, it is pleasant all the same.”
- “Beautiful artwork, finally a windowed mode, and plays well cross-platform, unlike the previous versions.”
- “Game has major graphical bugs on Windows 11 and I'm unable to find a fix, borderline unplayable.”
- “The game looks visually atrocious with jagged edges around everything. I'm not normally the kind of person to complain about graphics, but the game just looks bad. Even with anti-aliasing turned on, the game also runs at a terrible frame rate (generally hovering around 20fps) on a PC that easily meets the minimum required specs.”
- “The graphics are somewhat hideous, with blobs imitating water and 3D-ish models that look outdated.”
story
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The story in the game is characterized by light, often nonsensical storytelling, with humorous dialogue delivered by voice actress Katherine Parkinson, which some players found entertaining despite its absurdity. While the campaign features a quest about worms hunting artifacts, many reviewers criticized the missions for being linear and frustrating, with bugs that hinder gameplay. Overall, the story mode is seen as a mixed bag—amusing for some, but lacking depth and coherence, leaving players divided on its value.
- “This campaign features some light and mostly non-sensical storytelling voice acted by Katherine Parkinson, who does a phenomenal job delivering the genuinely absurd dialogue.”
- “The whole clan stuff is not for me, as I'm not much of an online gamer, but the story mode is enjoyable and humorous.”
- “Another nice Worms title, the story is a bit cheesy but in an entertaining way.”
- “This campaign features some light and mostly nonsensical storytelling, voice acted by Katherine Parkinson, who does a phenomenal job delivering the genuinely absurd dialogue.”
- “Worms Clan Wars just doesn't know what it wants to be; it lacks the charm of Armageddon, and the campaign makes very little sense. Mission success is a dice roll, and trying to put a structured campaign around that is idiotic.”
- “The story becomes impossible to pass at times as several of the cinematic cues never happen; you just go turn after turn waiting for something to happen.”
humor
76 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The humor in the game is widely praised, particularly in multiplayer settings where players can experience hilarious moments, epic fails, and funny interactions, such as the quirky voice acting and absurd weapon effects. Players enjoy customizing their worms with amusing names and hats, and the game's occasional glitches often lead to unexpected comedic situations. Overall, the game is described as a goofy, slapstick experience that is best enjoyed with friends, making it a source of laughter and fun.
- “This game is hilariously fun with friends; you will see this game almost every Steam sale there is.”
- “I don't remember when I had so much fun and when I laughed so hard - funny situations, epic fails, funny kills.”
- “Playing with friends is hilarious, especially when that one friend you have that is terrible at these games keeps accidentally committing suicide while parachuting or jetpacking.”
- “I really thought that I would love this slapstick humor-filled game, especially when playing with friends.”
stability
26 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game exhibits a range of stability issues, including occasional glitches and bugs related to physics, such as objects behaving unexpectedly or getting stuck. While players report encountering these bugs every few hours, they generally do not lead to game-breaking crashes, although some users have experienced frustrating random crashes during multiplayer sessions. Overall, the game's stability is inconsistent, with many players finding the bugs amusing rather than detrimental to the fun of playing with friends.
- “So after I bought this game for me and three friends as a Christmas gift, we jumped into multiplayer mode and sadly we quickly realized it is buggy. The game randomly crashes, once for all of us, another time just one of us... very frustrating. From reading another review where a user mentions he submitted a ticket in 2017, I've lost my hope this will be solved.”
- “I had friends lagging even on high-spec computers as it doesn't seem to use graphics cards properly or has a gigantic amount of unnecessary background calculations going on. Also, it's worth noting that everything has a bit of a delay, which isn't game-breaking though as the game is turn-based anyways. Just make sure not to wait until the last second of your turn to take your action and then start complaining that the camera didn't scroll out and over to the enemy worm in time. Rarely, the game also has glitches getting one of your worms stuck in a gap they just crawled in themselves or the water can extremely rarely defy physics and keep moving upwards and downwards inside a hole, essentially making it impossible to continue the match as it won't let you start your next turn.”
- “The game is super buggy!”
optimization
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The game's optimization has been widely criticized, with users reporting extremely poor performance across various systems, including significant issues on MacBook Pro models. Many players have noted that updates have not improved performance and, in some cases, have worsened it, leading to frustration over the lack of effective optimization and support for controllers. Overall, the game's performance is described as subpar, with frequent stuttering and low-quality optimizations.
- “As far as gameplay goes, clan wars is an optimized revolution, meaning no lag when water sloshes about.”
- “Release a new game with better performance and fewer flaws.”
- “We do not gain a single thing going to 3D graphics; we only lose precision and performance.”
- “Horrible low quality optimizations and the controller support is utter crap.”
- “Awfully bad performance on MacBook Pro 15 with Radeon R9 M370X.”
- “They've said for some time now they have been working on the FPS issues, but the fact I have not heard anything in a while combined with the fact that one update actually made my performance worse, doesn't exactly fill me with confidence.”
music
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The music in the game receives mixed reviews, with some players praising the soundtrack as very good and a pleasant surprise, while others find it lacking in variety and somewhat dull. While the background music is described as nice, it can also be monotonous, leading to a feeling of boredom during gameplay. Overall, the soundtrack is seen as a positive aspect, but it doesn't stand out significantly.
- “Soundtrack is very good, I am positively surprised.”
- “Awesome new features, great gameplay, excellent soundtrack and fun guaranteed.”
- “There's not many songs here, but the few remaining are nice to hear.”
- “The music makes you fall asleep.”
- “The music is only okay.”
replayability
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The game offers a significant amount of replayability, particularly for fans of the genre, with various strategies and completion methods available. Additionally, the inclusion of voice packs and cosmetics from the workshop enhances its replay value, although it is noted that it may not surpass the replayability of "Worms Revolution." Overall, it is considered a worthwhile purchase for those who enjoy strategic gameplay.
- “A great amount of replay value.”
- “If you love Worms, it's a must-buy. It's a good strategy game with high replay value and different ways to complete it.”
- “Voice packs and cosmetics from the workshop brought instant replay value.”
monetization
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The monetization strategy of the game has been criticized as a "lazy cash grab," with reviewers noting a lack of innovation and the presence of unfulfilled promises regarding features. Many feel that the developers are not genuinely engaging with the community, leading to disappointment in the overall value of the game.
- “Nothing short of a lazy cash grab, compared to Revolutions it takes few steps forward and many steps backwards.”
- “Advertising with features unavailable.”
- “Not because I'm a die-hard Armageddon fan (I actually preferred Hedgewars, back when it was more active), but because these games are cash grabs that have obvious signs of Team 17 just flat out being lazy, all while promising they are listening to the community and that this game will be 'the best Worms yet.'”
grinding
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Players find the grinding aspect of the game excessively tedious, with a campaign that feels unnecessarily long and burdensome, particularly due to the requirement of grinding for achievements. This has led to frustration and disappointment among users, who feel it detracts from the overall experience.
- “Whoever decided that a Worms game needed a long and incredibly tedious campaign, and that most of the achievements should be tied to it, really should never be allowed to work on a Worms game again.”
- “You'll need a second life for grinding.”
emotional
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Players express frustration with the checkpoint system, describing it as more of a hindrance than a helpful feature, which detracts from their emotional engagement with the game. This negative experience creates a sense of anxiety and avoidance rather than support, impacting the overall emotional connection to the gameplay.