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
World Snooker Championship: Season 2007-08 (video game) at 6/10, saying that they enjoyed the stylus control scheme of the game, and that on the "whole the control system works well" However, they were also hesitant about the game's gameplay, saying "movement around the table is disappointingly jerky" "EuroGamer" were also positive regarding the game's design, saying "Its (Sic) debut on DS plays pretty much as a snooker game should," but later said that "it [was] difficult to be precise without a lot of faff" Video Game Review website "Hexus.net" reviewed the game, but were confused by the game's difficulty, wrapping up their review saying "A decent snooker