Thornlight: Neon Snake

Thornlight is Snake rebuilt for a screen you actually want to look at. You steer a ribbon of light across a dark grid, collecting lights and growing longer with each one. Swipe to turn, or tap to either side of the head — pick whichever suits you from the menu, and change your mind whenever you like. Swipe back against yourself and you spend a reverse charge: the whole snake turns around, head becomes tail, and the trap you were about to hit is suddenly behind you. You begin every run with one charge, earn another with each level, and can carry three. The levels never stop. They only tighten. Thorns start appearing on level two and keep multiplying. Walls arrive on level four. The snake speeds up steadily until it is moving almost twice as fast as it did at the start, and by then you are long enough that the board feels half the size. You get three lives. Crash, and you respawn with the…