A downloadable game for Linux

We are not even halfway into 2025 and — oh boy – what a year it has been! Among the most noteworthy things:

  • There’s a 4MB Jam 2025.

Welcome to this year’s edition of taking the theme a tad too literal :P

Thanks to the three-sided dice of Doigt, this year’s theme ended up being “Worms, Holes and Wormholes”. Hence my game is about — you are not going to believe this! — Worms, Holes and Wormholes. But don’t fear, I won’t beat around the bush.

So, the bad news is: This is a puzzle game.

The good news, however, is that should you have accidentally thrown away your keyboard, you do not have to worry. This piece of art can be played entirely with your mouse. (Oh, wait… Did I say “can be”? That should have been an “is”.)

Still curious what’s going on?

Well, help your wormy partner find the exit of each of the 20 puzzles to eventually save the world that has fallen into a wormhole. Place a marker and watch your partner walk worm into its direction. Almost feels like a construction site — one person does all the work, everyone else is just watching.

By the way, do you like turtles? Those are cute animals, aren’t they? Well, here come 40 kilobytes of reasons to turn to the dark side and hate them. How so? — How about downloading the game and finding out yourself?

Roses are red,
violets are blue.
Did you really read through all of this?
Poor you!

Game Content

  • 20 puzzles to solve: pathfinding, mazes, collectathons and survival challenges
  • 4 regions to explore
  • Worms
  • Holes
  • Wormholes
  • Delicious apples
  • Hungry turtles
  • Spoiler WarningA boss fight

This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance or similarities to actual persons, events or other entities are purely coincidental.

Okay, one last question:
Would you still save the world with me if I were a worm?

Published 12 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsLinux
Author0xEAB
GenrePuzzle
Made withSDL
Tagsholes, wormholes, worms
Average sessionA few seconds
LanguagesEnglish
InputsMouse

Download

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Game: Jam Edition 60 kB
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Source Code 45 kB
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[Spoiler Alert] Official Game Guide 17 kB

Install instructions

Use Linux Mint 22 Wilma on AMD64.

If your machine is not a vanilla install, make sure to install the following dependencies:

  • fonts-noto-color-emoji
  • fonts-ubuntu
  • libmpv2
  • libpangocairo-1.0-0
  • libsdl2-2.0-0
  • thunderbird

If your OS is a different one and audio playback seems broken, there’s a chance that your copy of libmpv might be too new. v0.38 broke a bunch of things.