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After looking for something similar I have been playing Hedgewars https://www.hedgewars.org/ which is Hogs instead of Worms, an interesting code base and play mode addons based on Lua. Not looking back to Worms. There's a nice European userbase and if you tune in at hedgehog hour (8pm time in CEST/CET) you'll have some fine company.

My favourite mod is Monarchy: https://www.hedgewars.org/node/6718#comment-34937.

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We used to play 2-player liero over the school LAN. It was great because it'd fit a 3.5" floppy disk and was totally portable. It's real time worms, and apparently inspired Noita.

Though reading up apparently it didn't have LAN play, so maybe we just did splitscreen?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liero

You can actually play Liero online and in the browser! https://www.webliero.com/

hedgewars is awesome. lived with 3 friends and installed this on our beamer in the living room. Competition is fierce still, in 5+ years nobody would even change team once. we lost track of score 3 years into the competition tho.

What does "beamer" in this context mean? Where I'm from it is slang for a BMW car, which I'm guessing you don't have in your living room.

It's German (pseudo-anglicism) for video projector.

I just tried that but the movement feels markedly worse than Worms, and the game feels much less polished overall. Is it still fun despite that?

For me it is? But take that as coming from a guy who literally has been playing 3 games (Xonotic/Nexuiz, tome4 and Hedgewars) in the past 5 years on and off, and nothing else.

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