Snakecremental

When you play through this game, if you care about achievements, [spoiler] do not purchase the pass through walls upgrade until after you use the 2nd life. In the same manner, don't buy the 3rd life until you beat the game. [/spoiler]

The weakness of most incremental games is how quickly they become repetitive, there's only so long you can watch numbers go up before they lose all their meaning. Snakecremental avoids this by grounding the upgrades in the gameplay of Snake. You can have all the upgrades in the game, but you ultimately still need to be good at Snake. The upgrades also feel impactful, which is essential for a game like this. Unlocking red health pips and blue armor pips genuinely changes the way you approach the game. Figuring out whether to conserve health and prolong the game or live fast and pick up the rare materials is an interesting decision. But ultimately, the gameplay is still just Snake with a little extra sauce. I beat the game in 4 hours and even then it felt a bit like it overstayed its welcome. Still, in a world where everything is trying to monopolize your time and money, $4 for 4 hours of fun, mindless gamplay is a pretty great deal.

I had a great time playing this game.... for a while. But eventually it becomes a massive slog. Unlocking all the upgrades eventually takes ages. And there's only so long you can play snake for, and enjoy yourself. Especially when it's snake, with a healthbar and the items you have to pick up, do damage to you. Some of them do a LOT of damage to you. To make it worse, there's only one save file, and some achievements are missable. I know, not everyone cares about achievements, but I do. So I have to factor this in with my review. Every level, you're picking up blues and reds for ages, then greens, yellows and pinks because they hurt and you want some armour first... And then die... and then repeat.... and repeat... and repeat... This is a great game if you like snake. But my god, it's a huge grind. I was having fun... for an hour. I've put 4 hours into this at time of writing. I am exhausted with this game. I really wanted to write a positive review, I've done a bunch of negatives in a row, and I hate to be so negative. But I cannot in good conscience give this a positive. Because it's just so grindy. Playing 5-10 games of Snake to get a single upgrade that doesn't really do anything is exhausting. But worse than that... realising that at some point you're going to have to delete your save if you want all the achievements, is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ irritating. I won't be going for all achievements on this one. I don't think I'll be playing it again either. As honestly, it's worse than just playing snake. I'm not a huge fan of snake. But it's a lot more fun than this. This is just snake with strings attached. Sorry developer... I wanted to like your game... But I really didn't in the end. It got painfully grindy. If you play it anyway, despite my review... I hope you like it more than I did. Thanks for reading, have a lovely day.