Steve Davis Snooker was also an unofficial sequel to CDS Software's 1983 Pool simulator, called "Pool." "Steve Davis Snooker" allows players to play against themselves, or against a human opponent in either Snooker, or Pool. However, there is no opponent AI. The game could be controlled by either a Joypad or a Cursor and Keyboard control scheme. The game has two different modes, with a "short game" (a game of Ten-Red Snooker similar to power snooker), or "long game", a game of traditional fifteen-red Snooker. The Atari game's box art boasts that the game has a "trick shot edit mode", "accurate spin", and
Steve Davis World Snooker six different levels of playing skill. The view is fixed overhead, however you can zoom in on the table, with the option of Slow motion replays. The game also has a practice mode, in which lines indicate what the results of a shot will be, and balls can be moved around to set up trick shots. "World Snooker" received average to positive results from critics. Computer and Video Games magazine scored the game at 72% on both versions. "CVG" praised the game's "brilliant" presentation, that was "bound to appeal to fans of the sport" but criticized the games high difficulty,