Free browser game
Play snake on real city maps
The snake formula has survived every platform since the arcade era because the rules fit in one sentence: keep moving, grow as you eat, never touch your own tail. Contrail keeps those rules and changes everything else. You fly a plane over a real city, the tail is your contrail, the food is passengers, and the walls are the city limits.
Contrail: snake over real city skies
Three real cities rotate in every day, one per difficulty, each built from OpenStreetMap geography: coastlines, lakes, highways, built-up districts, and working airport runways that launch traffic across your flight path. Collect passengers to grow your contrail and your score, and survive as long as you can.
A short history of snake
Snake descends from the 1976 arcade game Blockade and its many clones, but it became a household name when Nokia shipped it on the 6110 in 1997. Hundreds of millions of phones later, the formula was muscle memory for a generation. Google's playable snake doodle and the built-in Google snake game carried it to browsers, and modern multiplayer takes keep the genre alive. Contrail belongs to this family tree: same reflex, new map.
Frequently asked questions
- What is the snake game?
- Snake is the classic arcade formula: steer a constantly moving line that grows as it eats, and avoid hitting walls or your own tail. It became famous on Nokia phones in the late 1990s and lives on in countless versions, including the Google snake game.
- Can I play snake online for free?
- Yes. Contrail is a free browser snake game with no download and no account. It follows the classic snake rules but is flown over real city maps with airports, water, and highways.
- What makes Contrail different from classic snake?
- The board. Every arena is a real city built from OpenStreetMap data, the snake is a plane trailing a cloud contrail, the food is passengers, and real runways launch crossing traffic you have to dodge. Three new cities rotate in daily.
- Does it work on mobile?
- Yes. Contrail plays in any modern browser: swipe to steer on phones and tablets, arrow keys or WASD on desktop.
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