Snake Pass

Snake Pass is a movement game built around the body of a snake, so the whole challenge is about coiling, gripping, and swinging through spaces instead of just running forward. By our assessment, that strange control idea is also its best feature: it turns movement itself into the puzzle. The downside is that the same novelty can become fiddly, because precision depends on learning a very unusual rhythm and accepting some awkwardness. In practice it feels slower and more deliberate than a normal platformer, with a lot of attention on angles and momentum. Compared with standard mascot platformers, it is closer to a physics-based traversal game than to a jump-and-run. Snake Pass is most interesting as a one-idea game, and the ceiling is how much patience a player has for that idea.