Worms have weak spots
Hit the right segment and the number that pops out is absurd — three digits and a letter on the end. Hit anywhere else and you’re politely sanding down a wall. Aiming is the whole skill.
01 — the short version
It’s tower
defence that
refuses to
sit still
Most tower defence asks you to build a maze and then watch it work. This one hands you a field, a scarecrow, and something enormous already crawling toward him.
You don’t place towers along a path. You stand in the middle of the mess and let your weapons swing while a worm the size of a hedge coils around you, segment by segment.
Why I kept
opening it
Because a run is four minutes. Because the worms are genuinely funny-looking. And because the moment you learn where a worm’s weak spot sits, the same fight you lost twice becomes a fight you win with a lawn mower and a windup rat.
— 60-odd runs in, still bad at it
Three cards, one pick
Every level-up throws three upgrades at you and takes them away again the second you choose. Toxic Apple +30%. Thorn Ball +100%. Windup Rat +50%. Pick badly and the run just quietly stops working.
02 — four minutes, start to death
How a run
actually goes
-
00:00
You start with almost nothing
A scarecrow, one weapon, a patch of grass. The worms are already moving before you’ve worked out which way is up. There is no tutorial that takes ten minutes of your life.
-
00:40
The first three cards
Thorn Ball +100% damage looks incredible right up until you remember you don’t own a thorn ball. This happens to everyone. It will happen to you tonight.
-
02:10
It stops being readable
Six weapons firing at once, a purple worm wrapped twice around the arena, damage numbers stacking so high they run out of digits and start using letters. 132.75A. 999.9a. Soup.
-
03:30
You die, and that’s the point
Death is the payday. Everything you scraped up goes into ATK, CRIT and SPD, the scarecrow evolves a notch, and the next attempt starts a little less hopeless. Then you do it again.
03 — the shed
Your weapons are
garden rubbish
and it rules
There is no sword. There is a lawn mower, a baseball bat and a cactus you leave lying around. Each one levels separately and eats 29 shards a tier, which is exactly as slow as it sounds.
Lawn mower
16 / 29Drives itself straight into the worm and keeps going. Does most of your damage before level ten and you will feel slightly cheap about it.
Baseball bat
16 / 29Slow, dumb and enormous. One swing every age, but it lands like a full stop at the end of a sentence.
Cactus
16 / 29You stick it in the ground and forget about it. Worms keep walking into it anyway. Damage for people who cannot aim.
Toxic apple
16 / 29Lobs over the front rank and lands on whatever is queueing up behind it. The card reads Apple Damage +30% and it means it.
Thorn ball
16 / 29Fires off and clips segments you were not aiming at. It is the card everyone greedily takes at +100% and half of them regret.
Windup rat
16 / 29Wind it up, point it at a worm, look away. Rat Damage +50% is not a joke card and I will not hear otherwise.
Bubble spray
16 / 29Doesn’t kill much. Slows things down enough that everything else gets to. The unglamorous pick that saves runs.
Shock taser
16 / 29Throws lightning between segments. When three of them chain at once the screen briefly stops being a game and becomes weather.
Also in the shed: knife, nail, reap scythe, magnifier, a plank of wood. Swipe the deck — hover or tap a card for the honest version.
04 — contact sheet
Five screens,
no touch-ups
Straight from the Irish store listing, cropped only to lose the marketing banner along the bottom. Tap any of them to get a proper look.
05 — weak spots
Where it’s
brilliant, where
it’s a grind
- Minute-to-minute feel 0.0
- Aiming at weak spots gives this more teeth than the genre usually bothers with.
- Build variety 0.0
- Real synergies between weapons — though the strong picks calcify quickly once you find them.
- Progression pacing 0.0
- Grand for a fortnight. Then the shard arithmetic starts showing through the paint.
- Ad pressure 0.0
- You can finish runs without watching a single one. It will keep offering, and offering.
- Art and personality 0.0
- Fat black outlines, daft weapons, and worms with more facial expression than most protagonists.
What lands
- A run is four minutes. It genuinely fits into a bus journey.
- Weak-spot targeting turns a watch-it-happen genre into something you actively play.
- Losing pays. Every failed run feeds ATK, CRIT, SPD and the scarecrow’s evolve track.
- The art has jokes in it. A lawn mower is a legitimate late-game weapon.
- No twenty-minute tutorial. You are fighting something within seconds of opening it.
What grinds
- Twenty-nine shards per weapon tier. You will look at 16/29 for days.
- Reward screens lean hard on watching ads. Declinable, but relentless about asking.
- Later stages start getting solved by flat stat walls rather than by clever card picks.
- Damage numbers inflate into letters — 309.57A, 999.9a — until they stop meaning anything.
- The store page is upfront about ads and in-app purchases. Worth knowing before you hand a phone to a child.
Checked
18 Aug 2026
· IE ·
06 — from the listing itself
The bits we didn’t make up
Everything below was read off the Google Play listing from Ireland. If it has changed since, the store is right and we are out of date.
- Title
- Worms Incoming
- Developer
- mnmfun
- Price
- Free
- In-app purchases
- Yes
- Ads
- Yes
- Installs
- 100,000+
- Content rating
- PEGI 12 — moderate violence
- Store category
- Puzzle
- Last updated
- 18 May 2026
- Play star rating
- Not published yet
- Store front checked
- Ireland (en-IE)
- Package
- com.and.mnm.wi
The developer describes it as a “strategic tower defence and roguelike mix”, which for once is a fair description of the thing you actually download.
07 — off you go
Right then.
Go lose a
few runs.
It costs nothing, it’s a hundred thousand installs deep, and the worst thing that happens is you delete it on Thursday. Best case, you’re still arguing with a lawn mower this time next month.
