Play the classic Snake game free online in your browser. Eat food to grow longer. Don't hit the walls! No download required.
Steer the snake with the arrow keys or WASD. The snake moves continuously in its current direction. Eating a food item causes the snake to grow by one segment and adds to your score. The game ends if the snake runs into a wall or into any part of its own body. As the snake grows longer, the playing field becomes increasingly constrained, requiring more deliberate path planning.
The central challenge of Snake is not collecting food but avoiding the snake's own growing tail. When the snake is short, eating food immediately is almost always safe. As it lengthens, plan routes that leave you a clear path back after eating. Hugging the walls in a loop pattern is a conservative strategy that guarantees survival but slows score accumulation. A more aggressive technique is to eat food whenever it is nearby and spend time between food items maneuvering into a safer position.
Snake became culturally ubiquitous in the late 1990s when Nokia pre-installed a version of the game on its mobile phones, beginning with the Nokia 6110 in 1997. At its peak, hundreds of millions of devices worldwide carried the game, making it one of the most-played games in history before the smartphone era. The simplicity that made it feasible to run on hardware with minimal processing power is the same quality that makes it satisfying in a browser today.
Control the snake using arrow keys or WASD. Eat the orange food to grow longer and score points. Avoid hitting the walls or your own tail. The snake speeds up as you eat more food!
On mobile, swipe in the direction you want the snake to move. Swipe up, down, left, or right to change direction.
Yes! The snake gets faster as your score increases. Every 10 points eaten, the speed increases slightly. Keep your reflexes sharp!
Stay near the edges of the board early on to give yourself more room. Try to move in a spiral pattern when the snake gets long. Avoid cutting off your own path.