Grappling hooks, tiny arenas, and sixteen players worth of trouble.
Arcade · 2007
That One Thing
The grappling hook makes every tiny map feel three-dimensional.
Teeworlds is a fast 2D multiplayer shooter built around one excellent idea: give every player a grappling hook and make the maps compact enough that movement always matters. The controls are readable within minutes, but chaining jumps, swings and weapon timing creates room for real mastery.
Up to sixteen players can meet in familiar deathmatch and team modes, and community servers extend the game with maps and rule variations. The small characters and colorful presentation make an inviting first impression, yet the best rounds become wonderfully technical. A player who understands the hook can change direction in midair, escape a bad fight, or arrive from an angle the rest of the room forgot existed.
There is no campaign, progression track or modern matchmaking layer. Public server quality varies, and newcomers may occasionally meet veterans whose movement seems impossible. Teeworlds works best when friends join the same room, learn the hook together, and rotate through modes without taking the scoreboard too seriously. It is free, open-source, extremely lightweight and available across desktop platforms. Keep it installed for nights when the group wants action immediately: no long tutorial, no giant update, just a clean arena and one movement tool that keeps revealing new possibilities.
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Minimum Requirements
Any modern OS · dual-core CPU · 512 MB RAM · OpenGL 2.0 · 50 MB storage
Recommended Requirements
Any modern OS · dual-core CPU · 1 GB RAM · OpenGL 2.0 · 100 MB storage
Published by the game's own developers.
Yes. Teeworlds is released under Free to play and costs nothing to download or play.
About 20 MB.
Windows, macOS, Linux.
No account is required to download or play.
Yes. Teeworlds supports up to 16 players. You can join a public community server from the PlayBound server browser, have PlayBound start a dedicated server for your group, and host a game on your own PC. PlayBound Connect handles the setup: start a party with your friends, pick how you want to play, and everyone launches into the same game from the PlayBound launcher, with the dedicated server started for you if you choose one. It also supports LAN play. There is no subscription and no paid multiplayer tier.
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