If you haven’t heard, Google Stadia is shutting down and closing store adjacent week. But earlier the never-quite-successful crippled streaming work dies, it has provided 1 neat (and free) small acquisition you tin lone play for a fewer days earlier it each goes offline.

Launched backmost successful 2019, Google Stadia was a costly and monolithic concern from Google into the satellite of video games. Powered by the unreality aka a clump of servers and off-site computers, Stadia’s large committedness was instantaneous gaming connected the go. No much updates oregon costly consoles. And portion it sometimes worked, the precocious outgo of games, deficiency of features, tiny library, and net costs ended up dooming the service. Sure, some superfans logged thousands of hours into it, but for most, it conscionable wasn’t what they wanted oregon needed from a video crippled platform.

So it wasn’t astonishing that successful September of past year, Google announced the extremity of Stadia. In 5 days, connected January 18, the video crippled streaming work volition unopen down. With the extremity truthful near, it seemed improbable that Stadia would person immoderate caller crippled releases. Yet, Google has published 1 last game. But don’t expect immoderate large open-world RPG oregon remake. Instead, the last Stadia crippled is Worm Game, an internally developed rubric utilized to trial Stadia agelong earlier it became a nationalist service.

We astir apt were ne'er meant to spot oregon play this Snake-like trial crippled arsenic it sports reasonably rudimentary graphics and kinda disfigured menus. But successful the last days of Stadia, it appears the devs moving connected the task were capable to supply its assemblage 1 last treat. Even better, anyone tin play Worm Game arsenic it’s free. (Which makes consciousness considering the Stadia store stopped moving already.)

The game’s store leafage features this bully and touching statement of the crippled and what it was utilized for:

Play the crippled that came to Stadia earlier Stadia came to the world. “Worm Game” is simply a humble rubric we utilized to trial galore of Stadia’s features, starting good earlier our 2019 nationalist launch, close done 2022. It won’t triumph Game of the Year, but the Stadia squad spent a LOT of clip playing it, and we thought we’d stock it with you. Thanks for playing, and for everything.

Is Worm Game immoderate incredibly important oregon astonishing thing? Not really. However, it’s inactive truly chill to get a peek down the scenes, and acknowledgment to videos of Worm Game, this small portion of trial bundle volition beryllium somewhat preserved for folks to look backmost astatine years from now.

In different chill End Of Stadia news, Google has confirmed that starting adjacent week, it volition commencement allowing players to unlock the Bluetooth functionally of its Stadia controller.

This is simply a bully mode to marque the controller—which has 1 of my favourite modern D-pads connected it—more utile and easier to hook up to much devices. I uncertainty the devs who worked connected Stadia for years were readying for the controller to beryllium the lone happening near of Stadia successful 2023, but present we are.