Snakecremental

The core gameplay loop: you play the usual snake game, picking up items hurts you, items can later be exchanged to make your snake more durable. Different pickups deal different damage, they gain additional effects with upgrades, and each new level multiplies the damage dealt. Why thumbs down? About 7th level the progression grinds to a halt. The damage from pickups becomes high enough that picking up a wrong item can instakill you. Tounge upgrade (which allows to pick up items several cells ahead of snake's head) is a trap since it makes such situation more likely. Blue pickups add armor which reduce incoming damage, and red pickups heal you, but at 7th level they still do it painfully slow. Upgrading them becomes hard, because 7th level easily kills you and 6th level does not give enough currrency. I do not want to replay the same level over and over again in order to be unable to acquire a single upgrade several times in a row.