Terminal Snake
Inside a glowing green terminal, you steer a slow-crawling snake with nothing but left and right turns.
About This Game
Inside a glowing green terminal, you steer a slow-crawling snake with nothing but left and right turns. The 16x24 grid has no deadly walls — slip off any edge and you re-enter on the opposite side, so the only thing that can end your run is your own growing tail.
Food comes in five flavors: calm coins worth 2 points sit still, while jumpy, scurrying, and patrolling morsels worth 3 to 5 actively relocate every second or so — the harder a snack is to pin down, the more it pays.
Eating can also spawn a single power-up: a purple pellet that halves your speed, a cyan one that doubles it, a red one that trims your tail in half, or the flashing rainbow that ignites a 10-second fever with 15 coins flooding the field at once.
Great runs come from thinking one turn ahead and cornering through edge-wraps. Perfect for retro arcade fans who like their reflexes served with a spoonful of route planning.
Game Tips
- 🌈 Eat a rainbow and 15 pieces of food rain down for 10 seconds
- 💨 The more the food runs, the more it's worth — up to 5 points!
- 🔴 Tail too long and cramped? The red item chops it in half!
Controls
- ◀ L button : turn 90° left
- R ▶ button : turn 90° right
- ← · A : turn left
- → · D : turn right
Game info
- Players
- 1 player
- Developer
- PLAYMINIT — original game, made in-house
- Released
- 2026.05.06
- Last updated
- 2026.11.10
- Version
- v1.6
- Scoring
- pts · Higher is better
- Monthly ranking
- Supported
- Controls
- Touch · Keyboard
Dev Log
- v1.6
Behind-the-scenes cleanup
- No changes to gameplay
- v1.5
Behind-the-scenes cleanup
- No changes to gameplay
- v1.4
Keyboard fix
- Fixed extra turns when holding an arrow key
Earlier versions (4)
- v1.3
Tab switch fix
- Fixed power-ups running out while the tab is hidden
- v1.2
Speed-up item
- New speed-up item that doubles your speed
- Fever mode lasts 10 seconds
- v1.1
Fever mode
- Added Fever mode that floods the grid with data bits
- Added a leaderboard
- v1.0
First release
- Steer a pixel snake using only left and right turns
- Wrap around the edges, only your own tail ends the run
