Icy Tower

Icy Tower is a popular freewarecomputer game that is a combination of an action game and a platform game. The goal of the game character is to climb a frozen tower by jumping onto successive steps of a staircase inside it. The goal of the player is to reach a high number of steps (floors) and points (awarded for making visually attractive sequences of jumps). As the character climbs the tower, the game becomes progressively more difficult. The player controls the character using a keyboard or other input devices.

When playing, Icy Tower players usually try to achieve good results in one of several existing styles of playing, known as categories. Players' achievements in any of the categories may later be published in any of the online communities established for that purpose. One of the methods that allow players to compare their results are online high score lists. Another are online tournaments in which they compete directly.

Icy Tower was created in 2001 by a Swedish game developer Free Lunch Design. New features are being added to the game both by its developers, who regularly release its newer versions, and by its players, who refine its gameplay by making custom skins and characters that refurbish the game and create separate applications and modifications that allow changing its default behaviour. Mobile and online versions of the program have also been made.