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A slow & steady life

Snail Empire is a cozy game about keeping snails. You feed them, train them on the barn wheel, walk them to the racetrack, and get to know the people around town. There is no way to lose and nothing is on a timer. Play for five minutes or a whole evening.

It's made to be enjoyed at any age.

Your farm is saved in this browser

There are no accounts here. Your farm is saved on this device, in this browser, and it stays on your computer.

Two things follow from that, and they surprise people. The same game opened on a different computer or a different browser starts a brand-new farm. And clearing your browsing history or site data erases the farm, the same way it would clear a saved password.

A farm can travel, though. Open Load Game and press Save to a file under the farm, and the whole farm goes into one small file. On the other computer or browser, Load from a file brings it back. A file you saved is also the one copy that clearing the browser can't touch. In the middle of a game, the ShellPhone's Load 📂 has a button that does the same for the farm you're on.

There are no ads, no sign-ups and no accounts, and nothing about you personally is collected or sold. The one thing the game does send is a count: that somebody opened it, and how far they got. It goes to my own server, not to an advertising company, and it carries no name, no email and nothing typed. I can see that someone reached day ten. I cannot see who, and I would not want to.

Playing on a phone

I made the game wide, so turn your phone sideways. On an iPhone, the browser keeps its address bar on the screen even then, and nothing I can put on a web page will hide it. If you open the game from an icon on your Home Screen, it gets the whole screen.

If you've already started a farm, save it to a file before you make the icon. Press Load Game, then Save to a file under your farm's name. You'll need that file if the icon doesn't find your farm.

To add Snail Empire to the Home Screen of an iPhone or iPad, press your browser's Share button, a square with an arrow pointing up. If you can't see one, press ••• first. In the list that opens, scroll down and choose Add to Home Screen.

From now on, play from the new Snail Empire icon. It's the same game, but the icon may not find the farm you started in the browser. If your farm isn't there, press Load Game, then Load from a file, and pick the file you saved.

On Android, your browser's menu has Add to Home screen or Install app, and the game opens full screen from the new icon too.

On an iPhone or iPad, playing from the icon keeps a farm safer, too. A browser there can clear what a website has saved after about a week of browsing without visiting it, and a game opened from its own icon isn't held to that. On a computer or an Android phone, a farm usually stays until someone clears the browser's saved data, and a file you saved is how a farm moves to another browser or device.

Who made it

I'm Charles Thompson. I build software, and I made this one at home in Flowery Branch, Georgia. It's free for now.

The art and music came from independent artists whose work I bought or who share it freely. They are all named under Settings, in Credits, which is the least I can do.

Tell me what you think

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