Play the classic Snake game in your browser. Eat the food, grow longer, don't crash into walls or your own tail. Free, no install.
Arrow keys or WASD to change direction (swipe on mobile). Eat food to grow. Don't hit walls or your own tail. Space to pause.
Snake is one of the most iconic arcade games ever made. Its lineage traces back to the 1976 arcade machine Blockade, but it became a household name when Nokia pre-installed a version on the 3210 and 3310 in the late 1990s. For an entire generation of mobile users, Snake was the very first video game they ever played.
The rules are famously simple. You control a growing line that slithers around a bounded board. Each piece of food you eat extends your tail by one segment and pushes your score higher. The catch is that the snake never stops — every tick of the clock it moves another cell forward, and you have to keep planning ahead.
Two things kill you: the wall and yourself. As the snake grows longer, the empty space on the board shrinks, the game speeds up, and the path you can safely take coils tighter and tighter. The genius of Snake is that the difficulty is generated entirely by your own success, which makes every long run feel earned.
On desktop use the arrow keys (or WASD / HJKL). On mobile, swipe in the direction you want to turn. The snake moves continuously — you only need to tell it when to change direction.
Every food pellet you eat shaves a few milliseconds off the tick interval, down to a minimum. The grid stays the same size, but you have less reaction time per move.
No. This is the classic Nokia ruleset: walls are deadly. Hitting any edge of the board ends the run.
You almost certainly clipped your own tail. As the snake grows, the head can collide with any body segment except the very tip — and that's an instant game over.
Yes. Your best score is stored in your browser and persists across sessions, even if you close the tab or restart your phone.
Technically the maximum length equals the number of cells on the board (400 on a 20×20 grid). In practice almost no one reaches it — the speed and tightness make the last few pellets brutal.
It's a bonus apple worth five times a normal apple. It only stays on the board for eight seconds — the ring around it shrinks as time runs out, and it starts blinking when it's about to disappear. Grab it if you can route there safely.
They're power-ups. Blue Shield absorbs one death — your next wall or self collision is ignored instead of ending the run. Yellow Speed makes the snake move faster but doubles every point you score. Purple Slow eases the pace so you can untangle a long snake. Cyan Ghost lets the snake pass through its own body for a few seconds (walls still kill). Each one shows a countdown ring while it waits to be picked up.
Every time you eat another apple within roughly four seconds of the previous one, your combo goes up by one (capped at five). Each apple you eat is then worth your base score multiplied by the current combo. The popup over the apple tells you the multiplier — "+30 x3" means you got 30 points and your next apple keeps the streak alive.
Coins are a cosmetic currency you earn from every run — roughly one coin per hundred points of your final score, shown at game over as "Earned +N". Spend them in the Skins shop (the button on the Start and Game Over screens) to unlock new snake color palettes, from the free Classic look up to Cyber and Phantom. Skins are purely visual — they change the snake's colors and glow but never affect speed, scoring, or collisions. Your coins and unlocked skins are saved in your browser.