Snakeybus is Snake on a bus and I love it beyond all words Eurogamer.net If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Snakeybus is Snake on a bus and I love it beyond all words Blockade the roads. Feature by Christian Donlan Features Editor Published on 13 May 2019 20 comments Snakeybus has one of the most appealing pitches for any game in an age. It's Snake - or Blockade if you're a purist - but you're a bus, and you're driving through Paris, or Miami or wherever, and as you collect passengers and drop them off your bus gets longer and longer. So it's Snake - or Blockade if you're a purist - but the fiction matters. It really does. There's something about driving a bus around the Louvre and across the Seine and then seeing, in the distance, in a gap between buildings, the passage of your own trailing carriages, that fills Snakeybus with a sense of panicky potential. God, I'm over here, but I'm also over there! I'd better not run into myself. Around this beautiful core, Snakeybus keeps it simple. You collect passengers by driving over glowing sections of the road, and you drop them off by following the arrow to a column of light in the nearby sky. It's not hard to get so wrapped up in this simple task at first that you completely forget the fact that, as you work, you're also growing longer and longer. Eventually, though, you can ignore all of this no more, because you round a corner and there you are. There is something particularly cruel about running into yourself in a bus. Beyond all this, Snakeybus has a lovely range of maps. Paris is the instant classic, of course, but I like the Miami one and there's a sort of cylinder farm world that really reminds me of the spaceship from the Rama novels. It's weird enough to look up and see corn growing across the ceiling, but it's even weirder to see your own bus-body racing through it overhead, and in front, and behind you. Even abstraction works here. I love the endless level, in which your bus just races on and on over jagged ice. But I really, really love the corkscrew: a handful of looping roads orbiting a weird black sphere. Here is the place to meet yourself coming back the other way, as you coil and coil, collecting passengers, dropping them off, and slotting yourself into the spaces between your own trundling carriages. And jumping. Because there's a jump button. Snakeybus is an absolute gem. Become a Eurogamer subscriber and get your first month for £1 Get your first month for £1 (normally £3.99) when you buy a Standard Eurogamer subscription. Enjoy ad-free browsing, merch discounts, our monthly letter from the editor, and show your support with a supporter-exclusive comment flair! Support us View supporter archive More Features Digital Foundry Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090: a new level in graphics performance The Digital Foundry video review - and how the new GPU champion delivers for 4K 120fps gaming. 14 Feature Evercore Heroes wants to wind people up the right way "There's less rage at them, because they didn't end your fun." Feature What games get wrong about horses And what they could do about it. 34 Feature Shout out to all the Overwatch supports - where would we be without you? Merci. 55 Latest Articles Digital Foundry Sennheiser's legendary HD 599 open-back headphones are just £70 at Amazon in the Prime Early Access Sale Comfortable with neutral sound and a wide sound stage. Preview Football Manager's new Console edition is the best you'll get without a PC Getting Touch-right. 1 Splatoon 3 Amiibos will be out next month Ink-coming! 3 Fans think Phil Spencer's shelf is teasing the Xbox Game Pass streaming box UPDATE: Xbox confirms old Keystone prototype. 61 Supporters Only Premium only Off Topic: Take a minute to appreciate Cookin' with Coolio's incredible scallops recipe. What a great book. Premium only Off Topic: Reading City of Glass in comic form "Where exactly am I going?" Premium only Off Topic: Il Buco is a transporting film about a really big hole Underlands. Off-Topic Netflix handled Sandman brilliantly It was Dreamy. 9 Buy things with globes on them And other lovely Eurogamer merch in our official store! Explore our store