Worms Rumble - Cats & Dogs Double Pack

I have watched Worms Rumble split its own fanbase clean in half, and the Cats & Dogs Double Pack is precisely the kind of content drop that makes me shrug rather than reach for my wallet. This is a cosmetic DLC pack, full stop. You are getting three cat outfits, three dog outfits, a Kitty weapon skin, a Bones weapon skin, two banners, two player titles ("Nine Lives" and "Good Boy"), and two emotes - the Meow and the Panting. Nothing here touches gameplay. No new mode, no new map, no weapon, no mechanical twist. It was timed to coincide with Team17 adding Team Deathmatch to the base game, so if you were already playing Worms Rumble at launch you know the drill: new mode drops, cosmetic pack drops alongside it, you decide if the drip-feed of visual flair is worth the cost of entry. To be clear about what Worms Rumble actually is before you spend anything on it: it is a real-time, online-only 2D arena shooter built around a 32-player lobby. You move a single worm across 2.5D maps using twin-stick controls, pick up weapons from chests scattered around the environment, and try to rack kills before the timer or the toxic gas closes in on you. The arsenal mixes series classics - the Bazooka, Holy Hand Grenade, Sheep Launcher - with newer additions like the Hammerhead and Rocket Shield. Modes run from straight Deathmatch and Team Deathmatch to Last Worm Standing and Last Squad Standing, which are the battle royale variants where one life is all you get and the map slowly shrinks. Movement has some genuine texture to it: wall hops, jetpacks, ziplines, and rolls give players real options for repositioning if you put in the time to learn the inputs. Time-to-kill is fast, which I appreciate, though weapon balance has drawn valid criticism since buffed weapons picked off the ground can snowball a match hard for the person who grabbed them first. The base game's reception landed in mixed territory - roughly 60 percent positive on Steam as of writing - and the criticisms are fair. Matchmaking for the battle royale modes has historically been thin, server timeouts were a launch problem, and the ranked structure that competitive players want simply does not exist here in any meaningful form. If you are the kind of shooter player who cares about a real ladder, this is not your game. The cosmetic progression loop earns you XP, unlocks gear, and lets you level individual weapons for additional visual rewards, but none of it changes how you play. The Cats & Dogs pack just adds to that visual pool. So who should actually consider this? If you are already deep enough into Worms Rumble that you have a main mode, a preferred weapon, and a regular squad you queue with, then six outfits and a pair of themed emotes for picking your faction in a pets rivalry is a fine low-cost flex. If you are buying Worms Rumble for the first time and wondering whether to bundle this in, skip it and put those funds toward the base game - the cosmetics you unlock through normal play are plentiful enough to keep you busy for a long while. And if you bounced off Worms Rumble because you wanted turn-based strategy and destructible terrain, no amount of cat hats is going to fix that. Fred, Scout Team