Hi, thanks for trying out and reviewing our game! It seems like you've played it just before our latest update launched, which addresses a lot of the points you make in the video - we launched a fresh server which is where all new players start right after the tutorial, and there are now quests that you can accept and work through to learn the game better. (very innovative, right?) We can assure you that the game is not quite dead, as we've maintained a pretty stable population over many years, but it's spread throughout the many servers, so that impression is understandable. This is not as much of a concern on the new server, Guidance, as all new players end up there, and some older players have moved to it as well. It's pretty busy over there, especially since it's not as large as the server you picked. We've also reduced the long action timers that new players experienced significantly, hopefully leading to a less frustrating experience. We hope you'll give Wurm another go after these changes!

This takes me back, played this 8 years ago and put way to much time into it, the goal? to make a viking ship...succeeded and never went back.

Shoutout to blivvy, the real MVP of wurm online to take newbs under her wings

If you're going to play Wurm, your number 1 priority should be to join a village. This is a social game and you are not intended to do everything yourself.

Wurm has around 500-700 logged in players every evening

I was a part of a youtubers wurm community during the games prime. As the motivation died on the youtube side, it seemed that the town got even more tight knit as those that stuck around really got into it. Everyone had their role that felt like they almost naturally fell into. Some charismatic social butterflies turned to the religious system and preaching, combat lovers became guards and hunters, not to mention the endless crafting lines you could spec into. As the individual got more talented in their profession, the whole town would feel the effects without taking away from your own experience. Far from the experience in games like Conan where once one person in your group is high level youre pretty much just playing catch-up. One of my favourite aspects was discovering your innate talent. Some got really useful ones like weaponsmithing, and others (like myself) got yoyoing. It made everyone feel unique. The pride I felt in myself and my village when we worked together to fight off an invading player army, or launched a big ship that took an irl week to make is a feeling that ive been chasing in mmorpgs ever since.

Basically Wurm focuses on a more realistic setting while still being fantasy. First about building houses, work stations and more. The way it is setup, is supply lines, and multiple builders. Second the more workers on a project, the faster it will go. Example: Have 2 wood cutters, cutting down and making logs, 2 labourers, which deliver the logs to the woodworkers to make planks. Have two more labourers which delivers the planks to a worksite, which the builders can pick up, and start work on parts. The more the faster it becomes. As it is a supply chain for the resources needed, workers using teamwork to make things happen. It requires a lot of teamwork, and I will be honest here; It is a great RPG in the sense, that you have to focus on what you will be good at, you can roleplay, you can build your character in the way you want. You can be a simple hunter, you can be a guard, you can be a blacksmith, you can be nearly anything. That is why it is an RPG, the survival mechanics are simple.

8:54 "if you don't believe me just ask your mom" had me dying lmao.

Wurm is a great community. It's often empty. But its full of loving and kind people. Its also simply Massive. You're talking multiple servers and landmasses that can take HOURS to cross even on fast mounts and sticking to roads. Managed to build up in it a year ago though. Made some money. Bought a big ship. Sailed to the larger PVE server, xanadu. Carved out a mountain and built some bridges up some steppes to make a cool little base. etc etc. I still keep my plot upkeep paid incase I get the urge to go back.

Gosh, you played the game like a few days too early. They released a big update last Monday overhauling the new player experience, parts of the UI and they enhanced the graphics a bit again. However nice video, always nice to see someone make some content about it.

If nothing else, WURM is proof that the sort of griefing games like this are typically subject to can be avoided by making everything so tedious that _everyone_ steps in to ensure it doesn't happen.

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I remember playing this for the first time in 2011. It makes me happy to see this games still thriving. Haven't played since 2015/16.

I remember playing this 9 years ago, it was actually really enjoyable! It took me two weeks to finish my small ass house 😂

Damn and I thought Age of Conan was complex crafting, this is next level.

My very first MMO was Ultima Online which I played for 13 years and after that I kept seeking a replacement. That was until I found Wurm Online which, while lacking many of the cool things UO had, it still does offer a lot of the same types of experiences and charm. Hence Wurm became my UO replacement and I've been actively playing it for 11 years now. It's a pretty funny coincidence, but I just happened to watch your Pax Dei video the other day (as I'm now testing out Pax Dei for the first time) and as beautiful as the game is, and as cool as the building aspect is, I'm finding myself utterly unimpressed with Pax otherwise. Especially coming from a game like Wurm (and UO), both of which have so much depth and freedom. To be fair, it is in early access, but I have a hard time believing that they will ever get to the level of Wurm in it's sense of immersion and accomplishment. Heck, just the lack of terraforming alone was a huge damper. Wurm is amazing in the freedom it allows you to build pretty much anything and shape the land as you see fit. Even change the biome of your land! The things I've seen people accomplish in Wurm blow the mind! People tunneling into mountains and building underground cities, gorgeous towns on tops of the mountains, the ability to create your own islands... the list goes on!

I played this for so many years! I used to live solo and multibox 4 accounts on screen to speed up mining and other tasks. ❤❤❤

"The sandiest sandbox, wherein sand was ever boxed." - Ebriel

bros never played eve online

The private servers for this game is a separate game called Wurm Unlimited, its a 1 time purchase with no subscriptions. The devs stopped supporting it, but there are server mods that add alot of variety to the game.. im still playing it now.. its great

Having 1000 hours in this game, imho it is the most satisfying mmo I've played, and wish there was a modern-day equivalent.

Something that most new players don't realize (because it's not explained anywhere) is that the grindiest, slowest, most aggravating, strenuous, exhausting phase of the game is the very start. (which is exactly what scares so many player away). However, as your skills start to rise, things start to get easier, progress bars start going a faster, you fail less and less, and your sense of progression and achievement intensifies. If only new folks knew that! So using your house as an example, once your carpentry skills get into the 50's and above, you would have built that same house in probably 15 minutes. Another thing to realize is that you just happened to choose the most gigantic server of all of them. Larger land space = players more sparsely apart. On that server you chose (Xanadu) you can walk for ages without bumping into anyone. But had you chose for instance Cadence, you'd have been seeing people left and right as it's not only a smaller server but the one that became most popular after Wurm did it's Steam release back in 2020.

Love the video

I'm glad you still decided to cover this game even though Josh Strife Hayes covered it I appreciate that I actually wanted to watch more content on this game

That montage needs to win some awards, IMO.

At least we know where Pax Dei got their resource numbers to build their walls and the grind to harvest those resources!

The fact they gave you a donkey made me realise what level you are within their village. 😂😂

Wow this was a blast from the past. I played this around '07 or '08 when it was fairly new. Spent many days trying to get started with buillding like you did. We needed nails, and joined up with another guy on the aame mission. It took ua several days to mine into a nearby hill searching for iron. Those first nails that we built took us days or effot. Huge sense of achievement, but then life got in the way and I couldn't justify spending so long grinding. I still think back to this game. It's really unique.

Wurm mentioned! The community has always been amazing and I can honestly say I would've never put hundreds and hundreds of hours into it if it wasn't for the helpful players.

ive been really enjoying your channel! i love the flat affect of your voice and that you don't try to be over the top or anything. very refreshing.

I remember running a farm in the Silent Hill village. They had this giant dirt oblisk that you could try and climb.

So I have over 3,000 hours in this game and in Wurm Unlimited (the "community server" version of WU), and I can confidently say that everything you've cited in this video is right except for it taking inspiration from Runescape. If anything, Runescape took inspiration from it because WO is older than Runescape. And all the pros and cons you expressed are pretty much the same opinion of the community that plays it. Crafting is why we play it - the combat is jank and always has been. But we play it because the crafting system is just amazing, and the sense of fulfillment you get from building a big project just feels amazing.

When i were a kid and was still learning english one of my first mmorpg was a game called Istaria. This game was awesome for me, cuz it had a lot of crafting and you could play as a freaking DRAGON but eventually i stoped playing cuz of the language barrier at the time... maybe i'll start download and play again now.

Rdr2 reference got me good

I still remember playing this for the first time around 05 (beta). back when it was still run by Notch+Rolf. Litterally 10's of thousands of hours burnt on this game. Its come so so far. I still remember when the best house we could make was a little wall made directly out of logs long before we even got planks..

Dude an updated and modern version of this game would hit insaley hard

You kinda made me want to play this game

very good video, i first played wurm in like 2010 and I have good memories of me and my bro as young kids/teens trying to establish a kingdom lol

The small community seems very friendly and open to help out new players. This is not always the case as I've met plenty of small communities in MMO/MMORPGs that have a very close feeling but are cold as hell towards new players trying to find their way.

This is a good video, i have played this game for years the community is so nice its amazing. My friend is mad at the game so i quit with him but i really miss this game alot.

Why are all the steam reviews saying the Game is ran by a psychopath lol. And these reviews are from people with thousands of hours. Saying that they keep updating the game to make it harder for new people

Just a small thing as a new viewer i think the doge is distracting, u have a good voice for a 'voiceover' style commentary video and the doge mouth doesn't really move like your words. It also takes up the screen where I am looking in certain parts ! Great vids, just some feedback :p

The mom joke is what got the like out of me, well done!

Played this since 2015 or so. Still one of my favourite games and my inspiration to build my own MMO!

That spider chase at the end was so funny!

Imagine minding your own business building a house and a glowing red spider spawns out of nowhere and your noob friendly vets comes into rescue.

Donkey in the house? That's some Banshees of Inisherin energy 😂 I'd watch more of these old MMO investigations 👍I like the longer content

Man, I loved how granular the crafting system was in this, along with the plant system. It was exciting when you lived in a forest with heaps of olive trees and they came in season. I also have memories of my mates finding and locking down some source fountains, and selling it to fund premium time. Though it seems like RMT has been removed when it was added to steam.

Wizards with guns is literally the best combination possible. Ever play a spellslinger in Wildstar?

I'd actually play that game. Yeah, it's not fast paced and won't target the average person who want to do quick game when they have time. But the game look immersive. It's the type game where you're transported in another world and don't realize how much time you spent playing. The community look friendly, and it look like you can do a lot of things. I just wonder what the pvp servers are like. Can you destroy what someone else has built? Kind of crazy knowing how long it take to build things.

They have had 2 wipes and several fresh start servers over the 15 years. I played back in 2008-2011. Before it was on Steam. It used to have a player count on the website, back then it rarely had more than a few hundred players.

hitting all the button s and leaving a comment to boost bc you did a fantastic job with this video and I hope it blows up and drives more players

Project Gorgon would be a good mmo to try

.. and with that impressive house-building-montage you got another Sub. I salute you o7

I don't know what the video was about but the dog was talking to me so I subscribed.

I remember spending weeks trying to make a cave house.... digging into the side of a mountain...... ended up making a pretty shallow hole before burning out haha.

I remember playing this in like 2007! Wow it is still arround😮

Thing about Wurm is that it's not fast enough to keep you fully engaged, but it's also not slow enough to be AFK type of game that you can just let play itself. Because of this game puts you into weird almost trance like state, where time just fly by, as you watch a progress bar cycle over and over again.

Omg, you build soooo good!

28 weeks later theme in the background is allways a win

Played back when the steamm launch happened and it was one of thr coolest gaming experiences ive ever had. To see a barren world no signs of civilization turn into a sprawling world with all player made buildings was insane. I joined a massive guild and we made what turned out to be thr second biggest city on the server. We all had different jobs and got to collaborate with other settlements. It was a community like none other. The only problem was the insane grind, un intuitive UI, really clunky game mechanics (See floor leveling...) its basically a game that you need to sacrifice your real life to get the most out of lol

i know someone called blivvy who played ffxi private servers. wondering if it's the same guy. i played wurm online with 4chan of all places on and off for years. we'd do raids, suddenly out of nowhere, peaceful worlds will be filled with random naked mobs of people building (genuinely impressive) shantytowns. it was fantastic. random russians next door? rob their goats, show them who is boss. random french colony next door? bet your arse we took anything not nailed down, taunted them and got them fired up for war. it would last about a week or two each time, with a small handful sticking around long term thereafter. then 6-12 months later, someone else makes a thread and started it all over again. between those and nikoniko raids, i think those are some of the most fun times i've had online. it's a pretty awful game honestly, but the spirit is closer than anything else i've ever played. i think the game went away a while back, and now it looks old (and looked old even then!). i haven't quite found any replacement similar to it.

That attack sound on combat lol. Wow!

This game actually looks really fun. Wish i knew about it years ago.

I live next to ancient oaks and rivi and blivvy :D in Awanui

Due to your video I started playing, the community is great and super helpful

great video, btw whats the piano called at the beginning of the video?

I mixxed you up with a different KZfaqr. Wonderful happy accident for both of us and I am now subscribed cause your content is cool and well made.

To my old group on Ultima online, Hail the Sons of Serena! 🍻 😂

That 28 Weeks Later music always takes me back

i, too, geek out when i can see my feet

I'm glad someone else also rates games on whether you can see your feet and/or body shen you look down. It's the first thing I do in a new game lol

The closest game in aware of to Wurm is called Haven and Hearth. I spent an evening putting together the resources to build a modest house but when I came back in the morning I'd been looted so I quit 😞

reminds me of 'Life is Feudal,' which i wanted to LOVE, but it kinda died before ever taking off. doing anything solo was basically impossible, much like this game by the looks of it. It was awesome though to hop on and see how your little town was coming along.

This feels like the successor to UO to me. Funny enough, though, this is the first time that I have heard of it.

Fellow doge-man, good vid. Gave this game some much needed publicity.

I remember playing this game over a decade ago, I was young and barely knew english but it was a trip, even with my terrible english at the time someone took time of their day to help me get settled and everything, I didn't play for long because of my poor english at the time and complexity of the game, but the game was very interesting and I remember it to this day.

Could be a dream for some people! The amount of detail is awesome. You should check out Shaiya if you can find a good server. Need to unlock ultimate mode for doing pvp in end areas and try to low level/ mid level dueling if its still going. P2W, but you can have fun with a hard mode character, although recommend ultimate mode. I was a dps style guard in Astralis guild, soooo much fun!

I spent hundreds of hours playing the beta version from 2004-2006. It was better then - it was truely sandbox MMO survival game. On June 6, 2006, the full version (Gold) was released, and it changed a lot. After they added fantasy creatures, it lost its charm. I tried to play it again after almost 20 years, but the game hasn't aged well. Plus, I don't have as much time to waste as I thought I have when I was a kid. But it used to be my favorite game for a long time.

Survival wasn't a major genre when Wurm came out. That's probably why they didn't advertise it that way.

Seeing this makes me wanna watch you play Life is Fuedal SO bad.

What's with the 28 Days Later esque theme in the beginning? Really dig it.

15:25 ...... That is fairly accurate indeed....

Great video but because you added fable music into it i now ihave to play fable anniversary and fable 2 again!

If you get basic skills up to make action faster (you can reach sanic speed actions with high skill and good quality tools) and learn how to min-max, wurm becomes much more friendly.

Wurm is the kind of game i wish i could get into

Online is the preferred method to play, but if you really hate yourself and your friends you can also buy 'Wurm Unlimited' that is a standalone game with dedicated server setup and modability.

Watching and enjoying this whole video has convinced me that something is deeply wrong with my brain.

Gamester4life has a whopping 235 tutorial videos. Its the most complete I've seen for any game really. Following their vids made the game far more comprehensible.

Omg this game is so far away of it's time, I would totally play it today

You know what, i havent played this game yet i feel nostalgic. lol...

"blivvy farts in your direction"

I’ve heard this game off and on for years, I had no idea Notch was one of the creators of the game!

Just found your channel and really like the Idea of your content. Would love a video about "Albion Online"

I love Wurm Online, can't wait for Wurm Odyssey finally drop though.

looks like a game that i play in the early 2005 in a cibercafe, that was 2D.

Hi ! If you've never heard about it you should try : The 4th coming ! It was a great mmorpg with ultra long quests and infinite stats customization game back in the early 2000s. If you can review it, it would be so awesome !!

I have this. I tried playing it for a few hours a couple of years ago and my lord, it is SO dense and slow-paced. I just couldn't do it. This is coming from a guy who has 24,000 hours in Final Fantasy 11, one of the densest and grindiest MMOs out there. But Wurm Online broke me. I managed to somehow, after about 6 hours of real-time gameplay, scrape together enough resources to build a one-square house so I could complete the achievement. And I never went back. It took SO long, and the interface is so obtuse, even for me.

It's true! A little roleplay really can go a long way!

You know, it takes a heck of a lot of time to build your first house in Wurm. But will you forget about it? Never.