You can play games within the Snapchat app right now. While it has one big multiplayer title by way of a new Subway Surfers, Snapchat is adding a brand-new label of games under the new umbrella of Leaderboard Games.
As the name implies, these are purely high-score-oriented games where you compare scores on the leaderboards populated by your friends. While these games don’t have real-time multiplayer, you can still chat around, via text or voice with a friend or in the group while playing Leaderboard Games.
The new Leaderboard Games banner is launching with two new casual games developed internally within Snap Games- Find My Friends and Slide The Shakes.
Find My Friends is essentially high-speed Where’s Waldo. Find the same exact character in a crowd doing silly things. Slide The Shakes has you… slide a shake across the counter. But the counter has moving platforms, slippery ice and even giant swinging wrecking balls.
Here’s how you access the new Leaderboard Games on Snapchat:
- Open Snapchat (iOS or Android)
- Tap Chat or swipe right to the Friends screen
- Open a Chat or Group Chat and tap the rocket icon to open the Game Drawer Snapchat Games rocket icon
- To play a new Leaderboard Game, look for a trophy icon
- If friends are playing at the same time, you can chat via text or voice while you play