Thread a whole snake through speeding traffic, keep the head alive, and don't let your tail get torn away.
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How to play
You steer a snake from the grassy edge to the goal stripe on the far side of a multi-lane road. The level only clears once the entire body is across, so even after the head reaches safety, you must pull the dangling tail through the cars.
A car touching the head ends the run instantly; a car clipping the body simply shears off that part of the tail.
Black skull cars speed up to ram you; green cars brake to let you through.
Banked leftover time becomes energy you spend between levels on heals and upgrades.
Keep at least a quarter of your length, drop below the 25% gate and the run is over.
Climb all 15 levels to win.
Controls
Desktop: click or press Space to arm the snake, then steer with the mouse (clicking locks the cursor to the game; press Esc to release and pause) or with the arrow keys / WASD. Hold the Reflex button to slow time.
Phone & tablet: move or drag your finger to steer the head; hold it still to wait, and tap the Reflex button to slow the action.
Tips & strategy
Pause on a lane gap and let a skull car commit before you dart past it.
Spend the Reflex slow-time gauge for the final tail-pull, when a single clip can cost you the run.
Heal back over the 25% line before buying upgrades, staying alive beats going faster.
A short snake squeezes through tighter gaps, so sometimes a clipped tail is a worthwhile trade.
Origins
Snake meets Frogger: a growing body threaded through speeding traffic.
The original part is that the tail is vulnerable too. Getting the head across is not enough — the whole length has to survive the crossing, and it is strung out behind you across every lane you have already passed.
That makes length a liability in a way neither parent quite manages. In Snake the tail is a hazard you might steer into; here it is exposed to traffic you have already dodged, so every segment you gain extends the time you spend at risk.
About Snakeway
Snakeway is an original free browser game that fuses a lane-crossing dodging arcade game with a trailing snake-body twist, adding a roguelite run of heals and upgrades. Built in-house for PlayPendium, with a shared daily seed and an endless practice mode.
A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.
