Remember when I was telling you that I am a platforming veteran? If a game can make me feel like that, it must be really damn good.
I felt like a kid watching marvels with little stars in my eyes. From Magritte’s The Son of Man to a frozen war laden with dangerous bombs, anything goes in this surrealist game.
There are many beautiful themes that serve as background, not just ice. If you have ever played a game from Vectorpark like Windosill, now imagine actually navigating the thing rather than just prodding it. Notwithstanding the gorgeous art design, the game level is actually moving as you go along so that the levels transform under your wheels as you progress through them, from platforms rising out of thin ice to trees growing. I have been itching to tell you why I think that Icycle: On Thin Ice is an amazing game, and here it comes. Because in these games the levels are so gorgeous that you will not want to miss a single one. If that is not enough incentive for you to go through the levels and unlock gear, the secret levels requiring specific pieces of clothing will be an additional motive. Literally, as the poor guy is shivering on his bicycle even in the menu. Upon starting a level, our naked bloke will sometimes send a high-pitched scream that will echo throughout the frozen landscape. Additional help was given for the audio, and that part is good too. By the way, the same person did the coding and the art, which is impressive.
#Icycle on thin ice unblocked free#
It seems like the lone developer of Damp Gnat learned from this because On Thin Ice is completely free of these issues. Problem was, the bicycle was not very interesting to use (it could only move towards the right) and the difficulty was brutal and considered unfair. I don’t mean that this particular man is attractive, but the concept is. The concept is attractive: the world has been frozen and a naked man on a bicycle is navigating through the beautiful and bleak environments. While On Thin Ice was released without fanfare, the original flash game Icycle was at least a little bit known. Among these hundreds of games, I stumbled upon Icycle: On Thin Ice and decided to give it a try. Conversely, as a platformer veteran I am hard to please and I will mostly not bother with “more of the same”. And while I will certainly give a miss to games outside my area of expertise, I always keep an eye out for platformers. But if reviewers won’t sift through the pile of games, no one will. Can you imagine? Years of work discarded within a few seconds. I spent mere seconds on the Steam page for most of what I saw. That’s why customers rely on reviewers to avoid the junk and find good games to play, and I must admit that things got so messy that even reviewers definitively cannot check out everything… and lots of games as well as the hopes of their developers will disappear into limbo. Think about it: developers who put their heart and soul into making a quality game for the past year(s), and then the fruit of their efforts gets completely ignored among achievement hunter deluxe, fidget spinner scam: no animation edition, asset flipper 4576, RPG maker borefest BUT WITH CLEAVAGE, and Kevin’s first zombie shooter. There are just too many games that are being released on Steam, thus nowadays many gems are born and then die in complete indifference. Why, you might ask? Well, games on Steam have a huge problem of discoverability. But I have an iron will and strong discipline, so I went through it.
I was too busy in September/October to check what was released on Steam, then in early November I took it upon myself to dig through the stinky pile of Steam releases and browse hundreds of games. Icycle: On Thin Ice was released on October 25th 2017 and I saw no mention of it anywhere.
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