Serpentes: 10th Anniversary Edition 🐍

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"Brainmelting Snake"

Serpentes is back

An updated offering of blissful boomer arcade goodness is here! It's Snake, but every fruit has 5 effects assigned to it randomly. Eat the fruits to reveal their effects, then use them to your advantage... or die trying.

Based on a hellishly addictive hidden gem made by Benjamin Soulé in 2015, this new Serpentes got a second serving of 11 fresh fruits to unlock, mix, and match with the old ones, featuring new mechanics, reworked old ones, and a new original soundtrack by Pentadrangle.

Boomer Arcade at its crunchiest

Select two bonuses to start your run, then score the best possible score in 60 seconds. Death is inevitable, but dying only means retrying the very next second, as the fruits' properties get reshuffled. As you reach higher scores and fill up the leaderboard, you'll unlock new bonuses to select at the start, and new fruits to mix into the game for new effects.

Strategize on the fly

The fruits have 5 rows of properties. The first row is simply score. The second one adds and removes lengths of tail. The third one adds enemies, obstacles, it makes your snake faster, and some other fun things. The fourth row makes your next fruit more valuable, or maybe you'll get a wider selection of fruits, or you'll get a way to destroy some of the enemies and obstacles. Finally the fifth row holds a variety of powerful bonuses and mini-games that play through the game of Snake.

Complete a row on all the fruits to get 20 extra seconds on the timer. Quickly pick up 5 of a same fruit to unlock its fifth property. Try different priorities. Adapt your strategy to the effects you uncover. Or die and restart. After all, a run is just 1 minute.

Pay to win

The free demo for this game is essentially the same as the full game.

However, the demo only lets you select one starting bonus, instead of two. This makes it considerably harder than the full game, though not impossible, and we believe it's representative enough to get an idea of whether this game is for you.

Besides this, the demo mostly features the fruits from the original version, and only 2 of the 11 unlockable new ones.

Controls

This game plays entirely with the keyboard, or with a gamepad. (keyboard still required to input your name at least once for the leaderboard)

Use directions to move your snake, and hold them to move faster. That's it.

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Praise for Serpentes

"It captures the spirit of the original Snake perfectly [...] and then dials it up to eleven."
— Derek Yu

"Each variation of the Snake theme has generally been the same until Benjamin Soulé released 'Serpentes'."
— Indie Retro News

"[about Serpentes] I love the way it feels in my brain."
— The Beauty of Games, by Frank Lantz

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This game was partially funded on Patreon by people like you!

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The games are given out as Itch keys and Steam keys to be redeemed on our website. The games initially release on Itch, and then come to Steam a bit later. When the game releases on a platform, the corresponding key appears. You can cancel your subscription at anytime and it won't revoke your game keys.

This game is currently an Itch exclusive. But it will come out on Steam eventually. If you feel so inclined, wishlisting Serpentes there would be very helpful to us!

Buying the game here on Itch, or getting it through our Patreon subscription, will get you a Steam key when it releases there.

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Discord

If you'd like you can come to our Discord to share your best scores and compare strategies!

It's also a great place to talk with us and get news for this and our next projects!

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Are you press or a content creator?

If you're a streamer, youtuber, or press and you'd like to cover the game, you can request a press key using this form! We've also uploaded a few assets you might find useful, including screenshots and thumbnail material! Find them here!

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Changelog:

Quickpatch 1.0b:

• Fixed the Lychee unlock.
• Fixed a crash when trying to delete highscores.