Wirm

Wirm is a very cute and very short game (20-30 min), with a fun mechanic, but problematic level difficulty. No idea how climbing the first flying rocks is supposed to work. The menu has some setting that helps - unexplained, not pointed to, only a "hand-in-hand" icon and setting between zero and four hearts. But with it, I was able to proceed. ~20 min first/single playthrough. Then you can look for the alternative routes and buried collectibles. No guidance. The gameplay seems simple enough, but to me, the apparent difficulty makes me wonder whether there are movement techniques or not. The worm is very cute, and the tech seems solid, with very good sound design and fitting music, good environment variance, and environmental discovery. Store page says “tiny adventure”. Which I assumed to be about the small worm going on an adventure, not the adventure being very short. HowLongToBeat (community contributed, only 3 ratings) had 1.5 hours playthrough time. I would have been fine with that. Webbed, another title by the same developer, was over three hours. I didn't expect something that feels more like a (polished) tech demo. 20 min, with very little mechanics, seems barebone, even with cute animations, good sound, and world and level/section variance. I don't feel like the 6 € pricetag is warranted. That may be different for others, of course. I usually do my reviews independent of price, because price worthiness is very subjective, not only as an absolute value or when weighed against time spent, but also how everything else feels to and fits the player. I am tempted to give this a recommendation because of its cute and otherwise solid nature, but the confusing difficulty, where I think I would not have been able to progress at all if I had not read about the setting in reviews before playing. And that's quite problematic for a game.