I love the mouse mode. It makes this game much more fun and easy to replay. You don't have to think as much or let user error kill your runs.
Have you considered giving manual mode a slight speed bonus to encourage people to use it? Making your minions move quicker while on it.
It rewards the difficulty of aiming the snake, and the mouse mode allows perfect precision.
This is a great game, and I'm looking forward to the updates. It provides a very fun experience.
Thanks for trying it, and yes this is the sort of thing that keeps me up at night! I feel like the traditional snake mode is more interesting and rewarding gameplay, but at the same time understand it's more tedious and some people would prefer to play with the mouse.
My current plan is to add bonuses that are disabled in mouse snake mode. They might give you extra coins, or may just add score (but score could be tied to unlocking things in-game, so this would be a real bonus). For instance, one bonus would be for making a path without your snake ever overlapping itself.
The idea would basically be that the traditional snake mode is the "main" gameplay mode, and you should play it to unlock progress in the game, but that the mouse snake will be an optional more casual option for a quick game or to try out a new strategy.
