Snackbox Games

Studio
London, UK. Founded 2025 by Raphaël Benros.
Making
Small web games that start the second you click them. No downloads, no installs, no launcher.
Now
Unscrambled, a daily word puzzle.play today's puzzle

▣ Play

a landscape made of sixteen bits.

the work

the games

Two live, one in early build, more in development. Everything here is dated. If a row has no link, there is nothing to click yet.

  1. 01
    UnscrambledA daily word puzzle. Three scrambles, one shared word, beat the clock and your friends.
    LIVE2026unscrambled.ukplay on unscrambled.uk
  2. 02
    Mines of UrDig into the world's oldest game. A new tower every day, inside Reddit.
    LIVE2026redditplay on reddit
  3. 03
    Flip AttackMatch-two memory meets tower assault. Flip cards, land hits, climb the tower.
    EARLY BUILD2026itch.ioplay on itch.io
  4. 04
    Two Unannounced Bird GamesFeathers are rustling at the jam tables. A seagull is involved. That's all we can say.
    IN DEVELOPMENT
  5. 05
    The Tweet GeneratorType anything. Get it back TREMENDOUS. A very familiar kind of post.
    IN DEVELOPMENT
  6. 06
    STAYA quieter game about what it takes to stay.
    RESTING

play praxis

the event

An afternoon for the people who make and play games. Co-hosted by Sindi Breshani and Raphaël Benros.

16 April 2026Ran sold out

venue, lineage and partnersopen
Venue
Siobhan Davies Studios, Londonsiobhan davies studios
Context
Official London Games Festival 2026 side eventlondon games festival
Lineage
Continues the legacy of the Now Play This programmenow play this
Promoted by
DevGAMMdevgamm
Status
Ran sold outjoin the play praxis discord

from the lunch table

all essays
Twenty games in a drawer
9 AUG 2026

Ninety People

Wordle went from ninety players to ten million in fourteen weeks. Almost nothing our industry believes about growth explains it.

9 AUG 2026The Workshop

The Building Box

A template for building a game around a problem you actually carry. Blank, read across somebody else’s game, then filled in on the one it came from.

the jam table

collaborators

Ongoing collaboration on comment-native web games for Reddit. We run these jams to test ideas and learn fast, with teams and studios of any size, individuals included.

Galatico
design and code
Lava Lantern
art, animation and feel
Episod
meaningful games and game design
Snackbox
publishing and distribution

Flip Attack is a collaboration with Mr.Noone Interactive. Play Praxis is co-hosted with Episod.

Talks & programming

DevGAMMgameIS 20th AnniversaryLondon Games Festival 2026

The Lunch Table

Essays on games as a cultural artefact, and on what we are asking people to sit with.subscribe on substack

Industry & press

hello@snackbox.games

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the backroom

Discord
The backroom. Playtests, prototypes, and the people making the games.join the discord
Patreon
Early builds, behind-the-scenes drops, and a say in what ships next.become a patron