90s Snake Game: The Classic Phone Snake, Reborn

Features

Classic gameplay

• Steer the snake, eat the food, grow longer. Don't hit your own tail.
• 9 speed levels: from a relaxed Level 1 to a frantic Level 9. Pick the pace that suits you.
• Two game modes: No walls, where the snake wraps around the edges and comes out the other side, and Walls on, where the edge of the screen is deadly. Pure skill.
• Bonus bug: every few foods a bonus bug appears for a short time. Catch it fast: the sooner you eat it, the more points it's worth.
• Hold to speed up: hold a direction key to make the snake dash.
• Little details: the snake's mouth opens just before it eats, and it blinks when it crashes, exactly like you remember.

Scores and progress

• Top 10 high scores saved on your device, each with its date.
• Your best score is always kept, so you always know what to beat.
• Clear your score list any time and start fresh.

Controls your way

• Keypad controls: use 2, 4, 6, 8 to steer, just like the original.
• Touch mode: turn on touch controls and the whole screen above the keypad becomes a touch pad. Swipe to steer, tap to pause.
• Hardware keyboard support: arrow keys or WASD, Enter/Space to select, Esc to go back. Great on iPad with a keyboard.
• Navigation key and side rocker to move through menus, just like on a real phone.

Made for every screen

• iPhone and iPad, portrait and landscape.
• Android phones and tablets.
• Foldable phones: tabletop mode, book mode and cover screens.
• The phone is always shown in one piece at a sharp size, centred on your screen.

Thoughtful touches

• Auto-pause when you switch apps or get a call, so you never lose a game.
• Sound and vibration toggles in Settings.
• Built-in help screen if you've forgotten the controls.
• Light on battery: a tiny display and simple graphics mean it sips power.

The best offline game for planes, trains and no-wifi moments

Looking for games to play on a plane offline, or a simple offline game to kill time on the subway? 90s Snake Game was built for exactly that. It works fully without internet, so it's one of the easiest offline games for Android and iPhone to keep on your home screen.

• Works in airplane mode. No wifi, no mobile data, no "connect to continue" screens. The game never goes online.
• Starts instantly. No downloads after install, no updates to wait for before you can play, no login.
• Quick rounds. A game of snake lasts from a few seconds to a few minutes, perfect for a queue, a commute or a short break.
• Easy on your battery. A tiny 84×48 display and simple graphics mean the game sips power on long journeys.
• Auto-pause. Get a call, switch apps or close your foldable and the game pauses, so you never lose a run.

Whether you need a snake game that works without wifi on a long-haul flight or something to play in a tunnel with no signal, it just works, every time.

How to play the classic snake game

New to snake, or just a bit rusty? Here's everything you need:

1. Start a game: choose New game from the main menu.
2. Steer: press 2 (up), 8 (down), 4 (left) or 6 (right). Or swipe if you use touch mode.
3. Eat the food: every piece makes your snake one block longer and adds points.
4. Catch the bonus bug: it appears every 5 foods and vanishes after a few seconds.
5. Don't crash: the game ends if the snake bites its own tail (or hits the wall, when walls are on).
6. Pause: press the Navi key (the wide key under the screen). Press C while paused to quit to the menu.

Controls at a glance

How scoring works

• Each piece of food is worth as many points as your level: 1 point on Level 1, up to 9 points on Level 9. Higher levels = faster snake = more points.
• The bonus bug is worth 5 to 15 times your level, depending on how quickly you catch it.

90s Snake Game vs. typical snake apps

Search for a snake game app and you'll find plenty of options. Here's how this retro snake game compares with the usual modern snake games:

If you want the original snake game experience, with no ads, this is the one.

A love letter to 90s mobile phone games

For a whole generation, the first "mobile game" wasn't downloaded. It came built into the phone. Snake on a monochrome LCD was the original casual game: no loading screens, no updates, no internet, no microtransactions. You just switched it on and played.

90s Snake Game brings back that feeling:

• the soft green backlight glowing in a dark room,
• the satisfying click of a rubbery keypad,
• the tiny beep every time the snake eats,
• and the pure, honest challenge of a game that only wants your skill.

Whether you grew up with a keypad phone or you're discovering old school phone games for the first time, this is snake the way it was meant to be played.

A short history of the snake game

The idea behind snake goes back to the arcades of the 1970s, where players steered a growing line around the screen and tried not to crash. Over the years it appeared on home computers, but it became a worldwide phenomenon in the late 1990s, when it came built into mobile phones. Millions of people played it on tiny monochrome screens with nothing but a numeric keypad, which is why so many people still remember the 2, 4, 6 and 8 keys.

90s Snake Game is a remake of that 90s mobile phone snake game: the old keypad phone snake game rebuilt for modern iPhones, iPads, Android phones and foldables, without changing what made it great.

Privacy first: no ads, no tracking, no data collection

I think a snake game should be a snake game, not a data-collection tool.

• No personal data collected. Nothing. Not even anonymous analytics.
• No ads, so no ad tracking and no ad networks.
• No account or login.
• No internet connection used by the app itself. On Android, the app doesn't even request internet access. Purchases and backup/sync are handled by Apple and Google.
• Your high scores, settings and rewinds stay on your device (and in your own iCloud or Google backup if you use one).

That also makes it a safe snake game for kids: no ads to click, no chats and no data collection.

Read the full Privacy Policy.