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Icycle: On Thin Ice cover art

Icycle: On Thin Ice

Damp Gnat · 2017-10-25

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: May 16, 2017 (Android), Nov 27, 2013 (iOS), Oct 25, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 25, 2017 (Mac)

The award winning sequel to the classic platform adventure puzzler - Icycle (included). Cycle naked over a deadly post-apocalyptic Earth frozen in time, dress and humiliate Dennis with pitiful garments and enter his lovelorn dreams on a shopping trolley with a lamp shade for a hat.

95%
positive of 143 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
90/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$6.99
steam price (US)
Icycle: On Thin Ice is a 2013 indie action-adventure video game developed by Damp Gnat and published by Chillingo. It is the sequel to the original 2009 browser game Icycle. It was originally released for iOS in November 2013. It then got a release for tvOS on May 19, 2016, Android in May 2017, and for Steam on October 25, 2017.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 16 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 60% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 46% of 18,048 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.6k–8.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 143 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.79 at Steam (2023-11-21) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
121220172026Week of 2017-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$6.99$2.792017-10-252026-07-092017-10-25 — best price $5.942017-12-21 — best price $4.682018-02-15 — best price $4.192018-06-21 — best price $4.192018-10-30 — best price $4.192018-11-21 — best price $4.192018-12-20 — best price $4.192019-02-04 — best price $3.842019-06-25 — best price $3.492019-10-28 — best price $3.492019-11-26 — best price $3.492019-12-19 — best price $3.492020-06-25 — best price $3.492020-10-29 — best price $3.492020-11-25 — best price $3.492020-12-22 — best price $3.492021-02-11 — best price $3.492021-06-24 — best price $3.492021-10-28 — best price $3.492021-11-24 — best price $3.492021-12-22 — best price $3.492022-01-27 — best price $3.492022-06-23 — best price $3.492022-11-22 — best price $3.492022-12-22 — best price $3.492023-03-16 — best price $3.492023-06-29 — best price $3.492023-11-21 — best price $2.792023-12-21 — best price $3.492024-03-14 — best price $3.492024-06-27 — best price $2.792024-11-27 — best price $2.792024-12-20 — best price $2.792025-03-13 — best price $2.792025-06-26 — best price $2.792025-10-01 — best price $2.792025-12-18 — best price $2.792026-03-19 — best price $2.792026-06-25 — best price $2.792026-07-09 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1302026-06-24 — 2 pageviews2026-06-27 — 6 pageviews2026-06-30 — 7 pageviews2026-07-03 — 1 pageviews2026-07-06 — 5 pageviews2026-07-09 — 3 pageviews2026-07-12 — 8 pageviews2026-07-15 — 5 pageviews2026-07-18 — 5 pageviews2026-07-21 — 2 pageviews2026-07-24 — 2 pageviews2026-07-27 — 6 pageviews2026-07-30 — 2 pageviews2026-08-02 — 3 pageviews2026-08-05 — 1 pageviews2026-08-08 — 5 pageviews2026-08-11 — 5 pageviews2026-08-14 — 2 pageviews2026-08-17 — 4 pageviews2026-08-20 — 7 pageviews2026-08-23 — 1 pageviews2026-08-26 — 11 pageviews2026-08-29 — 10 pageviews2026-09-01 — 0 pageviews2026-09-04 — 4 pageviews2026-09-07 — 3 pageviews2026-09-10 — 2 pageviews2026-09-13 — 6 pageviews2026-09-16 — 4 pageviews2026-09-19 — 7 pageviews2026-09-21 — 3 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

33
achievements tracked
88.6%
earned "100 Ice Cubes"
20.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Player tags

BMXBikesFunnyIndieActionCyclingSurrealSurvivalAdventureDark Humor

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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