Hyperwurm is back! DEMO

🕹️ Demo Content (only ~5% of the full Content; no special Maps nor Bosses etc.)

✅ DEMO CONTENT:

🐍 Growth Challenge – First Stage only!

Keep your worm alive by constantly moving 🐾, collecting food, and avoiding the poisonous one.

📏 Special Rule for the first Stage: ! Survive until the CD (cooldown) runs out.

❌ NOT AVAILABLE in the DEMO:

🐍 Growth Challenge with Bosses
Some stages include boss duels where the fastest eater wins.

🧱 Maze Escape
Clear every piece of food in a labyrinth before space runs out.

⛽ Fuel Hunt
Collect scattered fuel cans while navigating enemy‑patrolled corridors.

🏍️ Corner Combat
Trap enemy worms without touching any corner segments.

🖱️ + ⌨️ or 🎮 INPUT:

4 Directions:

⬆️⬅️⬇️➡️ WASD or Arrow Keys

(Hold direction keys for Turbocharger 🛞)

or

🖱️ Left_Mouse_Button click & hold (target location)

or

🖱️ hold Right_Mouse_Button for Turbocharger 🛞

✅ ENTER = Confirm

🪫 ESC = Quit

🤖 F1 to F4 keys toggle AI Agents (Player takeover)

🧠 F5 trains a "NEAT neural network" (NOTE: High CPU usage!)

🙊 F8 to Cheat (skip stage; not rly useful in the DEMO thou...)

🚂 Available on Steam soon:

U can wishlist the full game on Steam here:

⭐ Wishlist “Hyperwurm is Back!” on Steam

😓 NOTE: ごめんなさい (Gomennasai)

🚮 HTML5 Browser Version runs worse (Mouse is glitchy; etc.) than the

🗑️ Electron Browser Variants; and these all run still way worse than the

native 🐧 Linux or 🪟 Windows versions.

... and... yeah... the "NEAT neural network" is still pretty dumb too xD

💗 Credits:

Hyperwurm is Back!

🛠️ Optolith Engine

(Built by ArChanum with assistance of 🤖 Copilot & 🧠 Grok – 2025 & 2026)

Development:

- ArChanum (Lead Developer)

Technology:

- SDL2, SDL_image, SDL_ttf, SDL_mixer (zlib license)

- GLEW (BSD 3-Clause License) // native Versions only

- LZ4 (BSD 2-Clause License)

- Emscripten (MIT)

- Electron (MIT)

Special Thanks:

Assets under the CC0 1.0 or CC BY 3.0 license:

MedicineStorm (Dungeon Crawl 32x32 tiles supplemental)

Game Developer Studio (Fruits)

SomebodyLarr (Bell)

Cougarmint (Slot Machine Resource Pack)

BizmasterStudios (RPG Crafting Material Icons)

nene (Boss Battle #2 & [Symphonic Metal], Boss Battle #5 [8-bit], Leap [8bit], Night of the Streets [Horror/Suspense])

Alexandr Zhelanov, Vitalezzz, Tausdei, nene [Heart of Machine]

jkfite01 (Funeral March (8-bit), Victory!)

syncopika (happy tune)

Best regards

ArChanum