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Watch trailer on Steam ↗Snail Trek - Chapter 1: Intershellar
Phil Fortier · Published by Phil Fortier · Official site ↗
Very Positive — 95% positive (186 reviews) · 6 achievements
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
Chapter 1 is now free! Relive 1980s nostalgia in this text parser driven graphic adventure game. You and your molluscan crew embark on an epic journey to find a new home world. In Chapter 1 - Intershellar, wake up from your long trip only to discover a saboteur has been at work.
Free
Adventure, Indie · 2017 · More free games
Embark on an epic 1980s-inspired adventure as you navigate through Intershellar in Snail Trek - Chapter 1, guiding your snail crew to safety from the aftermath of a mysterious saboteur's actions.
About this game
Snail Trek - Chapter 1: Intershellar is the first in a series of "20 minute adventures" where you take on the role of a crew of snails on a journey to a new home world.
In the style of the early Sierra Online adventure games, Snail Trek has colorful EGA-ish graphics and a text parser interface. Relive the nostalgia in these bite-sized adventures - but without all the pain. Autosaves, a text parser with auto-suggest, and puzzles with no dead ends, all combine to bring this old genre into the modern era.
In Chapter 1, you arrive at the lettuce-covered (or so you hope) planet. But something is amiss. Your ship has been damaged and you may not be able to land at all! Meanwhile, your home world is dying, and your entire civilization is waiting for your report on this new planet. Is it really a lettuce-covered paradise?
You can find chapter 2 here.
Key Features
In the style of the early Sierra Online adventure games, Snail Trek has colorful EGA-ish graphics and a text parser interface. Relive the nostalgia in these bite-sized adventures - but without all the pain. Autosaves, a text parser with auto-suggest, and puzzles with no dead ends, all combine to bring this old genre into the modern era.
In Chapter 1, you arrive at the lettuce-covered (or so you hope) planet. But something is amiss. Your ship has been damaged and you may not be able to land at all! Meanwhile, your home world is dying, and your entire civilization is waiting for your report on this new planet. Is it really a lettuce-covered paradise?
You can find chapter 2 here.
Key Features
- Autosaves - no need to save every few minutes (though you still can if you want).
- A text parser with both auto-suggest and auto-correct - fat finger your way to puzzle glory (but you can turn them off if you want to suffer more greatly).
- A text parser that understands what objects are in front of you, so you can be lazy and just type things like 'get' or 'look'.
- CRT emulation mode that gives those pixels an ever-so-slightly fuzzy look.
- A stereophonic score.
- Cute snails.
- Deaths (but hey, autosaves).
- No dead ends! Puzzle your way around with impunity!
- Widescreen aspect ratio, since monitors are more rectangular now.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
Minimum:
- OS *: Windows XP SP2
- Processor: 2 GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD 3000 or better
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 200 MB available space
Recommended
Recommended:
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: 2 GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD 3000 or better
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 200 MB available space
Supported Languages
English
Latest news
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Upcoming adventure game: Cascadia Quest
Cascadia Quest is my upcoming adventure game, much larger and more epic than any of the Snail Treks, but with the same kind of humor, puzzles and text parser adventure fun! Here is the Cascadia Quest store page! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31192174/ec5a78d8db0de99004627fff1121a742dfa680df.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31192174/e807360ab55f58dea621217208e18f91fb8ba131.jpgRead full article on Community Announcements (philfort)AnnouncementsOfficial
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It's not much, but I'll be donating all profits from Snail Trek (all games and DLCs) for the 2020 calendar year to organizations dedicated to fighting racial injustice. I made the first donation (for Jan-April profits) to the Minnesota Freedom Fund Inc. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/31192174/0b20f839de5fb61a8a714b874ce6efd334d5f006.pngRead full article on Community Announcements (philfort)AnnouncementsOfficial
Snail Trek Chapter 1 is now FREE!
Good news everybody... Chapter 1 is now free! As a reward for those who purchased it previously, you'll automatically unlock the Rainbow Donation DLC for free! Also, I'm pleased to announce that Snail Trek was nominated for an Aggie Award for Best Writing - Comedy. The winners will be announced sometime between Feb 20 and Feb 22. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31192174/f41d4bed4de244fda4de6e8a664a6f5449a72227.jpg In the meantime, feel free to go over to the reader's choice poll before Feb 17 and vote for Snail Trek in whatever categories you deem fit :-).Read full article on Community Announcements (philfort)AnnouncementsOfficial
Snail Trek merchandise is now available!
Mugs, shirts, phone cases and more here! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31192174/3ae07e824632c2b46aaddaacab164dcfe3d4e831.jpg https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31192174/d8e4ed6baf51d113164684203a5c0cbec61c3248.jpg https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31192174/692e0d4ade0bab3e1b2a10d20bd434f34749914d.jpgRead full article on Community Announcements (philfort)Press Coverage
Snail Trek is a Sierra-style adventure with modern twists, like autocorrect and autosave
PC gamers, especially us old-timers, often raise the question, ‘Why don’t game developers make X anymore?’ The common answer is, ‘You only think you want X because you don’t remember how bad X was.’ While I’m all for modern games appealing to more people, I do remember how bad X was, when it comes to the quirks of old adventure games, and I still want it, anyway. Have you seen Stair Quest ? It’s literally only treacherous staircases, Sierra-style sudden death, and a text parser for interacting with stairs. It’s great. Sierra released King's Quest in 1983, and in 2018, game developers are still innovating on the text parser. Like Stair Quest, Snail Trek boldly takes a step further back in time than most games would dare, but it's not one big joke about the terrible instant deaths in old adventure games. Snail Trek is an authentic, Sierra-inspired adventure with thoughtfully crafted puzzles and a hilarious story. While he was revisiting an old project, designer/artist Phil Fortier realized there "might be an underserved niche market" for games with text parsers. He was right: I am that audience, and Snail Trek is a delightfully clever throwback full of smart touches like autosuggest and autocorrect. I initially observed ‘snial’ being autocorrected in the first of Snail Trek’s four chapters. I was typing fast. The opening is tense: On reaching the lettuce planet, the crew finds that their captain has disappeared, under highly suspicious circumstances, and there’s no way to send the ‘all green’ signal to their dying homeworld. “I noticed, during playtesting, that a good third of ‘I don’t understand’ responses were caused by simple typos,” Fortier says. With the fate of all snailkind in my trembling hands, autocorrect is actually pretty great. The parser also suggests words as you’re typin...Read full article on PC Gamer
