There’s permadeath, and then there’s whatever this upcoming indie game is cooking up. Don’t Touch the Snail is an idle clicker, of a sort, with a dark twist. If the titular snail ever catches up to you, it’s game over forever.
It’s being described as an “anti-cozy” game and that seems fairly apt. The gameplay takes place on your desktop as a persistent snail chases the mouse cursor. You can only remain idle for so long before the snail catches up, so the game involves moving the cursor whenever that ornery gastropod gets close. If it ever succeeds in its grim mission, you can never play the game again.
