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Did you buy this game out of nostalgia? Do you remember spending hours leveling up and playing through complex and engaging levels? Well, put that memory to rest. Death Worm has fallen prey to the Monetization Monster. At some point in the last decade, our favorite mobile games were converted to monetized to Pay For Play (or should I say Pay for Prey) models targeted at children with access to their parents credit cards. It is a scam, and demonstrates the regression of mobile gaming in the worst ways. This of course, did not initially deter me from playing the game. So what? Watch some ads and get your level-ups. However, if you play too frequently without paying, the game starts killing your worm arbitrarily despite having a full health bar. If you continue to play without purchasing upgrades, the game will lock your power ups behind 3 separate ads—requiring you to watch 1:30 minutes of more Pay for Prey games. It is truly a shame how mobile gaming has devolved into shameless scamming on the App Store. Death Worm is no exception.

This game used to be absolutely amazing. It used to be one of my favorite games ever. After recently seeing it in the App Store, I decided to download it and I really wish I hadn’t. They did an “update” that completely changed the game. Before you were completing tasks to earn upgrade points and collecting fireballs and super jumps. There were also like 10 things to upgrade and you could play as long as you wanted. Now the fireballs and super jumps reload after a certain amount of time. You can’t upgrade your worm in-game and you need to collect or buy coins to upgrade your worm. There’s only 4 things to upgrade and you can’t go super fast along the surface anymore. There’s more screens with options to pay money instead of just loading the game and picking the location you want to play at. This game turned into a mainstream app designed to take your money.

I have loved and adored playing death worm for a few years, even playing the same levels over and over again (mainly the blitz levels), but now I am more than likely going to delete the app. It’s now heavily filled with ads and the fact that I have to either wait for more energy to continue playing or pay for unlimited energy or a season pass is just such a sell out. I was #1 on leader board for most of the levels on the old version, and now, I can’t play long enough to know if there even is a leader board anymore, and sadly I don’t even care to. Highly, highly disappointed with the update.