Worming from Home Controls

This is the short sheet. The long explanation is How to Play. Hardware floors are system requirements. If you have not logged in, use Getting Started first.

Worming from Home is a ragdoll. There is no traditional strafe-walk. You throw a body, you land on a key, the monitor is a separate camera. Full controller support is on the store page. Steam Deck is Verified, which means the default layout is supposed to reach every action without a keyboard overlay.

Core verbs

Verb	Mouse and keyboard (demo/playthrough language)	Gamepad / Deck	What it is for
Fling / wiggle	Move input aimed at the body, not a cursor	Left stick	Commuting across wood and keys
Jump / charge hop	Space (demo language)	South-face button	Mounting the keyboard, reaching phone, worm hole
Camera lock on monitor	Middle mouse (demo language)	Click / focus bind in default layout	Confirming what you typed
Look	Mouse look	Right stick	Finding Backspace before you need it
Confirm click	Physically shove or ride the in-world mouse, then bounce	Same, still the in-world mouse	Sending mail, hitting cells
Reset objects	In-game reset control shown when things yeet	Same	Retrieve mouse, dice, dignity

Exact glyphs can differ after a patch. If a bind fights you, change that one bind. Do not download a random community layout until you have tried Valve’s default on Deck — the Verified report exists because that default worked in test.

Worming from Home demo — a worm that can use a keyboard

Typing cheatsheet

• Lock the monitor before the first letter.
• Backspace is a key you commute to.
• Shift and Caps Lock are platforms. Spreadsheets care about case.
• Number row is a second neighborhood. Passwords and prices live there.
• Adjacent keys are how you invent new companies on the stock market.

Phone and webcam

Picking up and hanging up are physics, not UI buttons. Hang-up is a hop on the disconnect control. Webcam is a prop that can snitch. Details in How to Complete Tasks.

Worm hole exception

In the worm hole, jump charge is the whole game. Hard mode hides the charge cue and restarts on fail. Practice on the desk until a charged hop lands where you looked.

Accessibility that is actually listed

Steam lists color alternatives, custom volume, stereo, and playable without timed input / QTEs. That does not delete task timers. It means the comedy is not a Simon-says overlay. You can still fail a sheet by being slow. You should not fail because a hidden prompt needed a frame-perfect tap.

If nothing works

1. Confirm you are not trying to WASD like a shooter.
2. Camera-lock the monitor.
3. Reset objects.
4. Switch keyboard to gamepad or the reverse for ten minutes.
5. Read How to Play instead of buying a hat.

Patches that touch binds will be noted on launch notes. Official support mail and Discord sit on Links.