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Icycle: On Thin Ice iOS

Original surreal platformer, set in the postapocalyptic realities of Earth after the ice apocalypse. We play the role of a naked man in a bowler who travels the world on an old-fashioned two-wheeled bicycle.

Arcade | platform | experimental/art | Surrealism

Icycle: On Thin Ice Release Date iOS

27November2013

27November2013

App Store

developer: Damp Gnat publisher: Chillingo LTD Official website

English language game language: English

Icycle: On Thin Ice is an original mobile platformer in which we navigate the surreal world using a bicycle. The game was prepared by the British studio Damp Gnat and was handed over to users of iOS devices.

The action of the game is set on Earth after a great ice apocalypse. The planet's population has been reduced to one naked miser in a bowler named Dennis, who has only an umbrella and a two-wheeled bicycle at his disposal. Traveling through 40 highly abstract levels, Dennis has to face a variety of traps that require dexterity and the ability to think fast. The difficulty level of the game is quite high, and repeating the same stages many times is not uncommon.

The game world is presented in two dimensions, and our hero can move both forward and backward, as well as up and down. The whole thing is shown with a dynamic camera - we observe our hero's actions once in a large close-up, and after a while in a very broad perspective. Individual levels were made with unusual fantasy, and the graphic style used in the game can evoke associations with cubist Picasso's paintings. The whole is accompanied by a professional soundtrack, perfectly harmonizing with the surreal atmosphere of the game.

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Last updated on 12 June 2015

Game mode: single player  

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Age restrictions Icycle: On Thin Ice: Good for all ages.

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