Yes, and there is nothing to buy inside it. It runs entirely in your browser, sets no cookie, sends no request while you play, and needs no account. Your best score is kept in your browser's local storage on your own device and never leaves it.

Steer with the arrow keys, WASD or ZQSD, or swipe on a phone. Press space to start. Your route grows each time you collect a name, and the pace increases with it. Touching a wall or your own route ends the run.

Does it work on a phone?

Yes. Swipe in the direction you want to turn, and tap the board to start or restart. The board scales to the screen and is drawn at the device's own pixel density.

Waypath, a running and GPS tracking app for iPhone and Apple Watch built in Europe. The game is a small side page, not part of the app.

Route Runner

A snake game, except a snake is a route: a line that grows as you cover ground. Free, in your browser, on a phone or a laptop. No download, no account, and it sets no cookie.

Take your route for a run.

Arrow keys, WASD, or swipe. Press space to start.

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Your best score is kept on this device only — no cookie, no request, nothing to see on our side.

How to play

Press space to start. Steer with the arrow keys, WASD or ZQSD on an AZERTY keyboard; on a phone, swipe in the direction you want to turn and tap the board to start again. Every name you collect adds a segment to your route and shortens the interval between steps, so the run gets harder the longer it goes. The edges are walls, and your own route counts as one — there is no wrapping around the board, because a route that leaves one side and reappears on the other is not a route.

What it costs you

Nothing, and that is meant literally rather than as a figure of speech. The page loads two files from this domain and nothing from anywhere else: no CDN, no font service, no analytics, no ad network, no tracker. While you play, your browser makes no requests at all. Your best score is written to your browser's own local storage, on your device, and is never sent anywhere — which is why the cookie notice can still say this site sets none.

Why a running app has a game

It started as the page you land on when a URL is wrong. A 404 is usually a dead end with an apology on it, and we had a mechanic sitting right there: the thing that grows as you move is the same shape as the thing Waypath draws when you run. It seemed a waste to show it to only the people who mistyped something.

The names you collect are the other apps people arrive from. They are named, not drawn — there are no logos here, and no claim is made about any of them inside the game. If you want the actual comparisons, they are written out properly: Waypath vs Strava, vs Komoot, vs Garmin Connect and vs AllTrails.

The app it came from

Waypath is a running and GPS tracking app for iPhone and Apple Watch, built in Europe. It records runs, rides, walks and hikes, draws them on a map, and can share a live position with someone who has no app and no account. There are 426,029 waymarked trails in it, and a personal heatmap of where you actually go. Why it exists is a longer answer.