The multiplayer slither formula gets a sugary reskin in Jelly Snake, and the jelly theme is more than paint. You pilot a translucent snake through an arena of jelly beans, swelling with every bite, while the two hard rules of the genre stay firmly in place: crash into another snake's body or the wall and you pop, so the whole game becomes about forcing everyone else to make that mistake first. Trapping a rival into your own coils is the classic .io kill, and it never gets old.

What keeps the arena lively is the bot design. The AI snakes come in human-like tiers, some reckless and some cautious, which means the field behaves less like target practice and more like a room full of different personalities. Length is uncapped, there are a dozen jelly-flavor skins to unlock with coins, and the live leaderboard hands you a rank to chase. If you would rather beat a friend than a bot, the local split-screen two-player mode is right there.

It fits both a mouse and a touchscreen: steer with the cursor or drag your finger, hold to boost, or split the keyboard for couch play. As free browser games go it is easy to start and hard to put down, and it sits comfortably next to our other io games. Climb the leaderboard if you can hold your length.