HyperSnake (Hyper Snake): Offline Snake Game Twenty snakes. Be the last one.

Cut bigger snakes off, outrun the storm and race real players' ghost runs in an offline snake game for Android. Free to start. One purchase unlocks everything. No ads.

  • Android phones and tablets
  • Free to start
  • One-time unlock
  • Plays offline

Rated PEGI 3 · ESRB Everyone · USK all ages

HyperSnake gameplay: Snake Royale in the Venom style, the zone closing
HyperSnake's crowned robot snake

One run, four beats

HyperSnake is a free snake game for Android phones and tablets by HyperHollowGames, built to play offline against AI snakes and ghost runs of real players. Here is a whole run, each shot in a different style.

An On Fire snake growing on the open field among AI rivals
01

Eat and grow

A joystick that follows your thumb. Every orb is length, and length wins.

A Jungle snake snaring three rivals at once
02

Cut them off

Cross a bigger snake head-first. It crashes into you and drops its whole length.

A Neon Party snake pulling the board in with the Food Tornado
03

Level up, lift the board

Pick a power each level: Hoover, Speed, the Blast Ring or the Shield. Eat enough and the Food Tornado pulls every orb to you.

A Thunder snake in the garden heist, the hedge maze and its golden seeds
04

Steal the key, beat the boss

Kills fill the mana meter. Raid the garden heist for the key, then face the realm's boss snake.

Six realms. Six boss snakes.

Each realm's boss wears a style and guards it for the whole fight. Beat it and the style is yours: it repaints your snake head to tail, gives it its own trail and reskins your ring.

+ Gilded, Void and Venom after your first lap

An On Fire snake fighting the Jungle boss

Jungle

The boss regrows

Jungle style
A Void snake fighting the Stone boss in the quarry

Stone

Rubble rains on the quarry

Stone style
A Jungle snake fighting the Frost boss on the ice

Frost

Rime slows you down

Freezing style
A Freezing snake fighting the Fire boss in the caldera

Fire

Flares burn your tail

On Fire style
A Gilded snake fighting the Thunder boss in the storm hall

Thunder

Arcs jump the storm hall

Thunder style
A Stone snake fighting the Neon boss on the dance floor

Neon

The boss blinks across the floor

Neon Party style

Or design your own snake in the Snake Designer. Weekly Snake Royale events add skins you can only win: finish in the top 3 three times that week and the event skin is yours for good.

Four ways to play, all offline

What PLAY starts

Snake Royale

Twenty snakes and a zone that closes in every 30 seconds. Outside it the storm eats your tail; the last snake left wins. About three minutes, one free round a day.

Solo Easy

11 AI snakes and walls that bounce you back instead of ending the run. Learn to steer, boost and snare.

Solo Hard

22 aggressive snakes, deadly walls and pillars. Watch the space ahead before every turn.

Blitz

Two minutes on the Hard board, scored on length plus snares, with its own leaderboard. A full run at the bus stop.

HyperSnake vs slither.io, Snake.io and the rest

The biggest snake games on Google Play, side by side, on what their own store listings say. HyperSnake is built to play alone and offline, with no ads and no data shared.

Feature HyperSnake slither.io Worms Zone Snake Clash! Snake.io
No adsPlay's "Contains ads" label Yes Yes No No No
Shares no data with third partiesPlay data safety Yes Yes No No No
Says it plays offlinePlay description Yes Not stated Not stated Yes Yes
Online multiplayerPlay description No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Priciest in-app itemPlay in-app price range $4.99 $3.99 $104.99 $99.99 $299.99

From each game's Google Play listing (the ads label, data safety section, in-app price range and description), checked 20 October 2026. HyperSnake has no live online multiplayer: you play against AI snakes and ghost runs of real players, which is why it plays offline.

Watch the trailer

Styles, bosses and the Food Tornado. Real gameplay, with sound.

HyperSnake trailer: the crowned robot snake and the arena

More gameplay and Shorts on our YouTube channel.

HyperSnake as a 1998 PC big box: the crowned robot snake over a neon grid, chrome title, Windows 95 / 98 CD-ROM badge

The 1998 edition

If HyperSnake had come out in 1998, it would have sat on the shelf in a big cardboard box. It came out now instead, so it fits in your pocket.

Questions people ask

Is HyperSnake free to play?

Yes. Install it free from Google Play, or play the browser version on itch.io. There are no ads at all: no banners, no video breaks between rounds and no ad to watch for a second chance. The arena, Blitz, the first realm and one round of Snake Royale a day are free, with no currency and no energy timer. One optional purchase, Unlock everything, opens every realm, all nine styles, every skin, the Snake Designer, and unlimited Snake Royale; Google Play Pass members get it included.

Is Hyper Snake the same game as HyperSnake?

Yes. HyperSnake is one word, but plenty of people search for it as Hyper Snake, and it is the same game. On Google Play it was called HyperSnake: Snake Arena until October 2026 and is now HyperSnake: Offline Snake Game, made by HyperHollowGames. It is not the 2012 iPhone game Hyper Snake, which is an unrelated tilt-controlled classic snake.

Is HyperSnake like slither.io?

Like slither.io, you grow by eating and win by making rivals crash into your body. HyperSnake is built for playing alone and offline instead: Snake Royale in a closing zone against AI snakes and ghost runs of real players, levels with upgrades to pick, a Food Tornado, boss snakes guarding walled gardens, and styles you earn by beating them. It has no ads.

Does HyperSnake work offline?

Yes. Snake Royale, Solo and Blitz all work fully offline, so it is fine on a plane or the subway. A connection is only used to send your leaderboard scores and swap ghost runs with other players when you are back online; a round started offline races the last ghost runs the game saw.

What is Snake Royale?

Snake Royale is HyperSnake's battle royale and the mode PLAY starts once a new player has had three runs on the open field: twenty snakes in one arena, with a zone that closes in every 30 seconds. Outside it the storm eats your tail, and the last snake left wins. A round takes about three minutes. Every week runs an event with its own twist, such as double food, giant snakes, no boost or a fast zone; finish in the top 3 three times that week and its skin is yours for good. Event skins are never sold.

How do I kill other snakes?

Make them run into you. When a rival's head hits your body it crashes and drops its whole length as food. Head-on, the longer snake wins, so cut across the path of bigger snakes rather than meeting them face to face.

How does the boost work?

Boost trades length for speed. Once your snake has 12 segments you can hold boost to move at double speed, and it slowly sheds tail segments that drop behind you as food. Anyone can pick that food up, including the snake chasing you.

What are the boss snakes and styles?

Snakes you put down drop mana. Fill the meter and a portal opens onto a garden heist: fill the fountain, find four golden seeds in the hedge maze, carry the lantern into the glade, catch its three fireflies and grab the key from the vault while three guardians hunt you. The key opens the realm's boss, which circles, aims and charges. It only takes damage when a charge lands on your body, and every hit bites your snake off where it struck, so offer your tail, never your neck. Each of the six realms guards a style (On Fire, Freezing, Jungle, Stone, Thunder, Neon Party) that is yours once you beat its boss, and repaints your snake, its trail and its ring. Three more styles, Gilded, Void and Venom, come after your first lap of the realms.

Is HyperSnake multiplayer?

Not live multiplayer, so you never wait for a lobby and it still plays offline. Snake Royale does race real players: up to five of the nineteen rivals in a round are ghost runs, replays of other players' recorded rounds with a gamer tag and a country flag, and AI snakes fill the rest. You also compete through the Google Play Games leaderboards for high score and Blitz.

Which Android version do I need?

Android 7.0 or newer, on a phone or a tablet. Once it is installed, Snake Royale, Solo and Blitz all play offline.

Does my progress from the browser version carry over to Android?

No. The browser version on itch.io keeps its save in that browser, and the Android game keeps its own save on your phone, so the Android game starts fresh. The browser version is the free part of the game; the full game is on Google Play.

Is HyperSnake OK for kids?

HyperSnake is rated PEGI 3 in Europe, Everyone in the US and USK all ages in Germany. There is no chat and no account to make; signing in to Google Play Games for the leaderboards is optional. A ghost run shows only a made-up gamer tag such as Viper 482 and a country flag, never a real name. The one purchase is optional.

Which devices and languages does HyperSnake support?

HyperSnake is built for Android phones and tablets, with Google Play Games leaderboards and achievements. On a desktop computer you can play it in the browser on itch.io. The game is available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Indonesian, Japanese and Hindi.

New to the arena?

Controls, boosting, snaring, upgrades and the bosses, in one beginner's guide. The tips from people who kept dying are in there too.

Read the HyperSnake guide

Out before the final ring? How to win Snake Royale

Your high score isn't going to beat itself.

Free, offline, and no ads, ever. The AI snakes are already circling.