Google plans to pull the plug on its game streaming service, Stadia, on January 18. But even though the end is nigh, the team behind the project has given players one last game to play over the final five days.
Worm Game, an impressive adaptation of Snake, was used internally to test some of Stadia’s features, and it’s now free to play for all Stadia users. The game’s surprise release was accompanied by a short note from the development team:
Play the game that came to Stadia before Stadia came to the world. “Worm Game” is a humble title we used to test many of Stadia’s features, starting well before our 2019 public launch, right through 2022. It won’t win Game of the Year, but the Stadia team spent a LOT of time playing it, and we thought we’d share it with you. Thanks for playing, and for everything.
Worm Game features full controller support, a single-player campaign, leaderboards, online multiplayer, and a level editor. Play it now (before it’s gone forever on the 18th) in your browser at Stadia.Google.com.
UPDATE (1/19/23): Worm Game, and the rest of the Google Stadia service, was taken offline during the early morning hours of January 19. An official gameplay video of the title was never uploaded by Google, but multiple players have uploaded full playthroughs to YouTube (including from Watch the Gameplay and Helix Plays Games).
Good luck to the development team as they move on to new projects.