Background

Google Snake is Google's own official, polished version of the Snake game, one of the most enduring and widely cloned concepts in video game history, with roots tracing back to the 1976 arcade game Blockade and later gaining massive popularity through its inclusion on Nokia mobile phones in the late 1990s. Google built this version as a fully playable, feature-rich take on the formula, complete with different modes and settings, rather than just a bare-bones tribute.

The classic Snake formula has endured for decades because of how elegantly simple its core tension is — every apple eaten makes the snake longer and the available safe space smaller, so the game naturally gets harder the more successful you are.

How to Play

• Arrow Keys — steer your snake up, down, left, or right.
• Guide your snake to eat apples, which makes it grow longer.
• Avoid colliding with the walls or your own snake's body.
• Grow as long as possible before running out of safe space to maneuver.

Goal & Purpose

The objective is to eat as many apples as possible to grow your snake as long as you can, with the growing length itself becoming the main obstacle as available space shrinks.

Why Play Google Snake

It's a polished, official take on one of gaming's most enduring classic formulas. GBK Games also has Snake for another classic version of this timeless game.