Robby Brosman

Seattle. Bikes, espresso, and small software.

Snailtown

A card game about slow ambition. Collect the districts of a small mossy town — the Compost Heap, the Puddle District, Mushroom Village, the Waterfront — and be the first snail to finish three of them. Charge tolls on the streets you own, plant a shrub and then a tree, and when someone comes for your habitat, hide in your shell.

Every card is drawn by hand: pen, marker, and watercolor, scanned in with the wobble left on. Play across the table on the same wi-fi, far away over the internet with a room code, or against the town snail. Games take about twenty minutes. No accounts, no ads, no timers.

Currently in testing on iOS and Android.

Support

Something broken, confusing, or just not slimy enough? Email robbitthehobbitt@gmail.com and I'll write back.

Common questions

We can't find each other on the same wi-fi. Some networks (hotels, guest wi-fi, offices) block devices from seeing each other. Use Play far away instead — it works anywhere both players have internet.
The room code didn't work. Codes are five letters and belong to one game; ask the host to read out the current one. They change every game on purpose.
My game disappeared. The host's phone keeps the game. Reopen the app and tap Resume last game.
How do I play? There's a full how-to inside the app, and every card has a "More info" link that jumps to its rule.

Privacy

Last updated 6 August 2026.

Snailtown collects nothing about you. There are no accounts, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, no trackers, and no third-party SDKs gathering data. Nothing you do in the app is sold or shared, because nothing is collected.

What stays on your phone

Your saved game, so you can resume it.
Your settings — sound, table layout, hide-money.

Deleting the app deletes all of it. None of it leaves the device.

What travels between players

Same wi-fi: game moves go directly between the two phones. Nothing passes through any server.
Play far away: game moves pass through a small relay server run by me, purely to connect two players who can't see each other directly. It forwards moves between the two players in a room and keeps no record of them — nothing is written to a database or a log file. A room disappears once both players leave.

The names shown in a game are set by the app on each device. Room codes are random, temporary, and meaningless once the game ends.

Children

Snailtown is suitable for all ages and collects no personal information from anyone, including children.

Changes

If this ever changes, this page changes with it, and the date above moves. Questions: robbitthehobbitt@gmail.com.