Hisss everyone,
Fresh skin alert! Build 458 just shed its old self and it's waiting for you. On Android, update from the Play Store.
Here's what's been hatching:
A coach for your first world. World 1 now asks if you've played a snake game before. Hit TEACH ME and you'll learn to eat, brawl another noodle, molt, bank your coins and slither on to the next world. Already a legend? Hit I KNOW HOW and skip ahead. You can replay the tutorial any time from TUTORIAL in Options.
Friendly nudges. Forgot to molt? The game will gently hiss at you. The first time you grab each power, it tells you what it does.
Gentler first worlds. The first three worlds start chill and get tougher step by step, until world 4 bites like the real thing.
Fairer brawls. A shield no longer decides a head-to-head. And when two snakes swim side by side, the one cutting into the other's path is the one who gets snacked.
Leave a legacy. When you go down, your snake's orbs now stay visible behind the death screen. You can watch the vultures feast. Beautiful. Tragic.
More rivals, more names. The crowd has a way bigger pool of names now, and no two snakes alive share one. Say goodbye to fighting three Noodles at once.
Known issue: on some tablets, the arrow in the MOLT lesson points the wrong way. The fix is already coiled up for the next update.
New to the game? We especially want to hear from you. Tell us what made sense, what tied you in knots, and where you got stuck. Reply here with anything you spot, we read every hisss.
Now go get long. 🐍