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[[Platform Hell]] freezes over.

 

 

In a [[After the End|post-apocalyptic]], frozen Earth, the last [[Human Popsicle]] wakes up from his cryogenic sleep to discover that he is [[Last of His Kind]]. But he soon discovers that [[There Is Another]], and he sets off in pursuit of them across the frozen wasteland, looking for the last remnants of humanity. Fairly typical of the genre, then.

As a ''game,'' Icycle is a [[Platformer]] wherein you control the unnamed man and his tiny bicycle as he [[Follow the Money|Follows The Bubbles]] across several icy landscapes. The man can't get off his bike--he's naked, after all, and he'd freeze quickly--and he can't backpedal. He's got momentum issues, too. You've got to figure out the layout of the levels and the types of obstacles contained therein, and figure out the best path around them. Due to the way the bike moves, precision is extremely difficult--but [[Nintendo Hard|you're going to need it anyway]], as the platforms are small, the [[Spikes of Doom]] are plentiful, and the ice is [[Slippy-Slidey Ice World|both slippy and slidey.]] Being a free Flash game, it's only 8 levels long, but it's 8 levels of precarious cliffs, steep slopes, [[Bottomless Pit|Bottomless Pits]], and [[Spikes of Doom|spikes.]] Lots and ''lots'' of spikes.

 

* [[100% Completion]]: The game grades you on the percentage of soap bubbles you collect in a level.

* [[Advancing Wall of Doom]]: Area 7 is build entirely around this concept, with ''giant ice crystals'' encroaching in on you from all sides.