AdventureFit check
Is Earthworms worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Point-and-click players who want investigations built around puzzles
- Adventure fans who enjoy surreal science-fiction settings
- Players seeking a mystery with horror, comedy, and unusual visual art
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players looking for action-focused gameplay rather than investigation, inventory use, and logical puzzles
- Players who prefer realistic stories instead of surreal settings with horror, comedy, and strange situations
- Players seeking a short, simple premise instead of a missing-person case that expands into a global conspiracy
Our take on Earthworms
Rather than using a conventional realistic detective setting, the game places its investigation in a hand-painted surreal science-fiction world. Parapsychic visions, horror, comedy, and a widening conspiracy replace a straightforward case structure.
What is Earthworms?
Play as Daniel White, a detective whose paranormal visions guide an inquiry into a teenage girl’s disappearance in a fishing village.
The investigation leads through increasingly bizarre places toward an international conspiracy. This hand-painted adventure uses point-and-click exploration, logical riddles, and inventory-based interactions across 34 locations drawing on Edward Hopper’s art. Its style blends pulp fiction, horror, humor, surreal imagery, and science fiction. A dedicated musical score accompanies a story that shifts between beauty, ugliness, strangeness, and comedy.
How Earthworms plays
- 01Parapsychic investigation
- Daniel White receives visions that contribute to his work as a private detective.
- 02Hand-painted locations
- The game includes 34 locations painted manually and influenced by Edward Hopper’s work.
- 03Logical puzzle solving
- Riddles and challenging logic puzzles supplement traditional inventory-based interactions.
- 04Surreal science fiction
- The setting combines pulp themes, surrealism, horror, comedy, and science fiction.
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Earthworms: platforms & release
Is Earthworms worth it?
It is worth it if: point-and-click players who want investigations built around puzzles. Skip it if: players looking for action-focused gameplay rather than investigation, inventory use, and logical puzzles.
Where can I download Earthworms?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Earthworms's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Earthworms on?
Windows only.
