Over the last fifteen years Mantic Games have had us battling across fantasy settings in Kings of War, dungeon crawling with Dungeon Saga and competing in future sports with Dreadball and Overdrive. They’ve always seemed to be drawn towards the darker and grittier intellectual properties, with the likes of The Walking Dead, Hellboy and soon to be released Invincible Dice Game. It came as something of a surprise when we learned that their latest project involves one of Team 17’s brightest, deadliest and most humorous franchises. I am of course talking about the iconic Worms series of turnbased, sensationally silly strategy games, slowly coming up to 18 years young and no more mature than when they first set off an exploding sheep.
With their Kickstarter already underway and looking to release the game in 2024, we took some time out in the garden with shovels and some of the team from Mantic, to dig up what we can expect from the cardboard version of the madcap multiplayer video game.