Icey (2016)

Shanghai FantaBlade Network Technology Co., Ltd.

Android · Mac · Nintendo Switch · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 4 · iOS

3.18 from 89 ratings

717 members have it in their collection · 4 playing now · 393 backlogged · 65 wish listed

How long? Main story 2h · with extras 5h · 100% 4h (from 3 logged playthroughs)

Icey is a 2D side-scrolling action game and a meta game in disguise. As you follow the narrator's omnipresent voice, you will see through Icey's eyes and learn the truth about her world. The narrator will constantly urge you in one direction, but you must ask, "Why? Why am I following his directions?“ Obey? Rebel?
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Release dates

  • Nov 17, 2016 (Worldwide) Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)
  • Aug 08, 2017 (North_America) PlayStation 4
  • Oct 19, 2017 (Worldwide) iOS
  • Oct 24, 2017 (Worldwide) Android
  • May 31, 2018 (Worldwide) Nintendo Switch

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2 stars
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Myamo

Review Myamo 5/5 · Jul 4, 2021

Not the best action game, but it's okay

Icey is not an action game.I repeat. ICEY is not an action game! It's just the masquearade. It's more like stanley parable, where you do some strange decision and game response to that. Your goal is not to finish the game fast as possible but to find where and how to break the "default" narrative. Game is pretty short, but …

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Icey is not an action game.I repeat. ICEY is not an action game! It's just the masquearade. It's more like stanley parable, where you do some strange decision and game response to that. Your goal is not to finish the game fast as possible but to find where and how to break the "default" narrative. Game is pretty short, but you know that most people doesn't finish they games? Even this game tells about this in one of the ending. So 4-6 hours is okay. Also between the lines there is some lovecraftian sheet goin on.

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Kory

Review Kory 3/5 · Jan 21, 2021

I See What You Tried To Do There ICEY

Game Summary : Wake up and fight your way through enemies to defeat the boss. Truly that's about it.

Review Portion : Full disclosure, I rented this from Gamefly and played it for the platinum trophy. This game tries a few things and in my opinion fails at most of them.

It wants to have a somewhat deep combat system, …

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Game Summary : Wake up and fight your way through enemies to defeat the boss. Truly that's about it.

Review Portion : Full disclosure, I rented this from Gamefly and played it for the platinum trophy. This game tries a few things and in my opinion fails at most of them.

It wants to have a somewhat deep combat system, where you buy upgrades that allow you to have different button combos, like unlocking moves in a fighting game. Most enemies are mindless drones though, so anything more than spamming the basic attack seems mostly pointless.

It has a lot of breaking the 4th wall "humor" and does some interesting things with it, but it goes on too long almost every time. A lot of it is the narrator complaining that you're defying the game, and there's enough of it that just hearing their voice annoyed me by the end of the game.

I followed a walkthrough to not miss any of the secrets that led to such narration. At first I thought maybe seeing all of them was my fault and might have hampered my experience, but without them the game has essentially nothing in terms of story. Fight through enemies, fight a boss, repeat around 4 or 5 times. Without finding the 4th wall bits, the story is near non-existent.

Summary : Play if you can play for cheap if you're interested in a game that tries some new things, even if it doesn't execute them all that well. The game isn't at all broken, just pretty bland most of the time and the parts that aren't feel more annoying than interesting most of the time.

Personal Score : 5/10

"Objective" Score : 6/10

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