SNAKE CLASH!

Our app of the week is Snake Clash! This game had 374K ratings on the App Store with an average of 4.7 Stars when we started! It was ranked #8 on the Chart for Simulations.

The concept of the game is simple. You start out as a snake eating pellets and other snakes to grow to be the largest snake on the board in a 1 minute and 20 second round. You need to avoid snakes of a higher rank or your game will be over when they eat you. In order to eat a snake you have to have a higher level than them and you just run over their head. Their head is worth +10 pellets and each body piece is worth +5 pellets. The more you eat the more coins you collect at the end of your battle. That is the only game mode that I can locate. On the App Store it says there are a bunch of game modes including Time Limit Battle (where you can adjust the time it appears), Infinity Battle and Team Battle. Those could have been fun adjustments to have multiple game modes. It would have been fun to be able to play with the kids too.

You can use your coins earned during battle to increase your Start Level, Speed and Item Power. Each one helps. Everyone starts at level 1 so having a higher starting level can be a huge advantage to eat those little snakes right when the game starts. I personally feel Speed is the most important stat to increase. You can tell the players who haven’t increased their speed. They move more like snails then snakes. When your snake is faster it is easier to catch the smaller snakes and avoid the larger snakes. Item Power is great too because there are speed boosts, shields and magnets on the board. Speed boosts are a great item. This gives you extra speed temporarily. The magnets are extremely useful when there are a lot of snake bodies spread around the board that haven’t been eaten. Your snake will suck them up like a vacuum and grow quickly.

You can collect new skins in various ways. As you play battles (whether you win or lose) you earn coins to increase your skills. There are missions to complete, and the rewards include a snakeskin. The missions you can complete include eating pellets, eating other snakes, spending coins, obtaining skill upgrades and defeating the boss. When you defeat a boss, you get to choose from 3 snakes to add to your collection.

Unfortunately, there are only 6 of these types of reward chests that include snake skins and eventually you run out of rewards that include snakes, and you only get coins and diamonds from the bonus chest. Diamonds are another way to collect snake skins. The snake skins can be expensive, but diamonds actually aren’t that hard to earn. I played for a week and earned over 800 diamonds. Common skins are about 5 diamonds, rare skins are about 15-25 diamonds, epic skins are about 150 diamonds, and legendary skins are about 360 diamonds. You can also earn skins by watching ads. If you are doing a different activity such as cleaning your room, homework or watching tv you can easily let these ads run while you are working on something else and boom you earned a snakeskin.

Diamonds can also be used to buy different feed but that is more of an in-game preference what you want to watch your snake eat. There doesn’t seem to be any bonus for updating this.

Any time you defeat a Boss you level up to the next stage (battlefield). When you get to each stage there is an option to level up your Talent. Here you can use your coins to purchase experience, gold, start level, feeding range, and speed boosts. There is also a path to increase these items using diamonds. It can cost a lot of diamonds, so I didn’t do this side. There are only 30 stages listed. In one short week of play I got to level 20.

Each day you are placed in a world rank. The higher your ranking tier the higher your rewards on a daily basis. The rewards aren’t significant (some coins and diamonds) and if you play a few games you move up pretty quickly. I wouldn’t put much focus here.

Randomly there is an extra game mode that lasts for 60 minutes. In this game mode every game you play and stay alive your score multiplier increases up to x20. The reward for this game mode is huge. If you come in first place you earn 100 diamonds. I don’t know what kicks off this event but when this happens it is beneficial to spend a little extra time playing to earn your multiplier to receive the diamonds. If you get eaten during this game mode, they give you a chance to revive yourself by using either diamonds or watching a video. I would watch the video if I had a large multiplier that way I didn’t have to start over.

I would recommend this game as a once in a while game. You can play it while you only have a few minutes, so it is a very low commitment level. There are no in game reading or cut screens to skip. The ads are frequent but if you aren’t using them to earn something they are only about 10 seconds long.   

Tips

• If you go to the store and scroll all the way to the bottom you can receive 5 diamonds for free per day. It’s not a lot but it adds up.

• I don’t see any reason to buy anything in the store. The game is not that hard to earn rewards.

• If you don’t know if you are bigger than another snake aim for their body not their head. If you can eat the body, you are bigger than them. If you bounce off of their body, they are either bigger than you or they have a shield.

• Make sure you take your lucky spin daily. It is free and you can earn gold, diamonds, a snakeskin or level up an item.

• After each battle you can watch an extended ad to multiply your coins x2, x3 or x4. Sometimes it is worth it to let the ad play if you are gaining a significant amount of coins. Like when you are brushing your teeth or getting dressed after playing a round. Just let the ad play while you do your activity.

• If you are doing a different activity such as cleaning your room, doing homework or watching tv you can easily let snakeskin ads run while you are working on something else and boom you earned a snakeskin.

Jordan:

I liked how satisfying it was to eat the snakes in the game. It made a cute noise like bop bop bop. When I heard that noise I started to laugh because it was so funny 🤣. I also like the abilities you can buy with coins before the game. The abilities you can buy before playing the game are start level, speed, and item power. The abilities really helped in the game. The one that helped the most is start level because you can eat people at the beginning of the game when your level is high. I do not have any problems with the game. I would recommend this game!

Isabelle:

What I like about Snake Clash is that you can eat other snakes in the game. I also like that you can buy start level and speed. These helped me a lot because when I used start level it makes it easier to eat other people. Also, you can play the game without WiFi so that means you can play it on an airplane.

I think that the skins are really cool but some of them you have to watch an ad for. My favorite skin I have is the Among Us skin.

What I don’t like about Snake Clash is that every time you play a level you have to watch an ad. Also to get a new skin you have to watch an add. I think that the game is good but it could be better. There is a time limit in the game when you are playing then you have to try and defeat the boss. I think that they could add more time and less ads. 

I recommend this game but if you don’t want to watch an ad every time you are done with a level I don’t recommend it. But you can turn your phone on airplane mode and not have to watch one single ad.

Tips and tricks! One tip and trick is that every day you can spin a wheel to see if it lands on anything good.