Worms Zone a Slithery Snake

Worms Zone a Slithery Snake is a grow-and-eat arena game where you start as a tiny worm and try to become the fattest thing on the map. Food is scattered everywhere, other worms are doing exactly the same thing, and the only rule that matters is that touching another worm's body ends your run instantly. Everything else is positioning.

How to play: move the mouse and your worm follows the cursor, so steering is just pointing where you want to go. Hold left click to sprint in a short burst, which burns a little of your length in exchange for speed. Eat the glowing food to grow, and when another worm crashes, its whole body turns into a pile of food that you can hoover up in seconds. That is where the big jumps in size come from, not from grinding scattered pellets.

Two tips that change how you play. First, do not chase other worms head on. The winning move is to get slightly ahead of a smaller worm and turn across its path so it runs into your side. Second, once you are long, coil around your own tail near a food pile instead of roaming, because a long body in open space gives every other player a wall to farm. Sprint is for escaping a cutoff, not for hunting.

If you like this one, WTF Games already has a shelf of it. Try SNAKE io for a faster arcade version, LITTLE BIG SNAKE for a version with missions and upgrades, or Wormeat.IO for a rounder, chunkier take. Worms Zone runs unblocked in the browser, so a school Chromebook handles it with no download.