RoboSnakes: Core Wars Legacy

RoboSnakes: Core Wars Legacy is a game of robot battles in which you program a RoboSnake and rely on your intellect to outplay human opponents and AI. Its design draws on Core Wars, an idea from 1984 in which programs battled inside virtual machines. The game pays tribute to that original concept and the community that continues to cultivate it.

Program your RoboSnake

You use a visual programming system designed to be easy to learn, with no coding experience required. It offers control over code execution: you can highlight the active line, see TRUE/FALSE results in green or red, change execution speed, play code forwards or backwards, step through it line by line and set breakpoints.

Each RoboSnake also has built-in AI that tries to survive situations your program does not anticipate. The AI can behave unexpectedly from battle to battle, but your program always overrides its default behavior.

Battles and arenas

The game includes a sandbox map for testing strategies, 10 Versus arenas, 20 Tutorial levels and 30 Campaign levels. Battles are designed so that neither mechanical skill, age, dexterity nor equipment gives a major advantage; players and AI have the same power.

Persistent multiplayer

RoboSnakes changes how multiplayer works: players leave a permanent mark on the game, so you do not need to queue and wait for other people. The description also outlines cross-platform multiplayer between PC, Switch, iOS, Android, PS4 and Xbox One.