sssnake - A Super Addictive Snake Game for Linux Terminal

Try out this fun sssnake game in your Linux terminal.

Spending too much time on Linux, in general can be counter-productive. Our brain is not designed to work continuously. That’s why you need some activities to free up your mind. Some take walks, have coffee breaks, and go for a drive. But for some who can’t leave the desktop – there are very few choices to relax.

Here’s a classic snake game which only requires a terminal for you. Whil;e it may not be the ultimate solution, but hey, give it a try.

sssnake game for Linux terminal

The sssnaks is one of variant of classic snake game. The classic snake game is famous since the Nokia 3300 device, before the smartphone revolution.

This game requires the ncurses-devel package for compilation from Git.

So, fire up a terminal and run the following command to install the ncurses.

Ubuntu Linux and other similar distros:

sudo apt install git libncurses-dev

For Fedora and related distros:

sudo dnf install git ncurses-devel

Arch folks, use this:

sudo pacman -S ncurses

After installation, clone the official Git repo and compile.

git clone https://github.com/AngelJumbo/sssnake.git
cd sssnake
make
sudo make install

Installing sssnake game in Linux (Fedora)

That’s it. It’s now time to play the game.

Playing the sssnake game in Linux

Since it’s a terminal-based game, run the below command to verify whether it got installed. It outputs the help and instructions (if you want to read them).

sssnake -h

Alright, its time to play.

Run the following to start the game normally. You can steer the snake head with keys – WASD or HJKL from the keyboard.

sssnake

You can use the option -a for autoplay mode. It can play itself, and you can watch it.
Use the option -S for set it as screensaver.
Control the speed using -s and followed by number for speed.
And add random blocks for difficult with option -j.