Hope you're hungry, 'cos this is one tasty free lunch. Harold wears a hat and has a lot of time on his hands. He finds a really, really (infinitely, in fact: doesn't the mind boggle?) tall tower with regularly spaced platforms and, instead of assuming ownership and getting rubes to pay to see this marvel of architecture, he decides jumps up it to impress some nondescript 'hood dudes. And they ain't no sissy aerobic hops, neither, he's goin' all the way with his spinning, sparkling leaps, even going "Wooooo!" a lot.
To quote the readme.txt, "Ey, dis seems like a cool place to hang out in." And indeed Icy Tower is. Simply, Harold can jump. Every time he jumps up to the next platform, he gets a measly ten points. Run him up to a good speed and he can jump higher. Make him fall below the screen, and he be dead. Jump up multiple platforms and you start off the combo metre. If you wait too long and the meter runs out, or you fall back down a stage, or just make a simple one-up jump, it's gone. Make another multiple jump in the time, though, and you get a combo score. Keep on running fast, jumping high, and comboing and the impressive sound effects intone "Good" or "Sweet". (Note: The game comes with low quality, low size sound effects (11kHz), but you can download better quality sound files from the Icy Tower homepage (22 or 44kHz). In this review I was using the 22kHz sounds.)
Not since the chef in Out To Lunch has a little, hatted, jumping game character been so charismatic (although in this case less aromatic). From the musically raspy title to Harold's hat, from his starry-spinning powers to his tinny scream of terror as he falls below the screen, Icy Tower exudes a sweet, sticky substance. I reckon that substance is class, and it has way more of it than I thought a small freeware game really could.
Reviewed by Schattenjäger from HOTUD
English 
Comments and reviews
cagavèt-gr
I have fond memories playing this on school computers
I wish there was a way to find the skins people used to make on their website in like 2007-2008. I used the wayback machine but a lot of skins are not backed up. I only managed to download one.
Game crashing after start game clicked. What to do?
Okay, so we just updated this page and uploaded all versions of Icy Tower!
In case more people are wondering where the high scores file is stored. I finally found them.
This is for Windows 11 x64:
The high scores are saved in a file: tower.cfg
If you have installed Icy Tower in the 'Program Files (x86)'-directory, you can find the scores (config) file in: %userprofile%\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\icytower1.2\tower.cfg
When you have installed it somewhere outside Program Files it should just be in the program's directory.
For anyone who has problems with this game lagging on Windows 11 x64:
Download cnc-ddraw.zip from the latest release at: https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw/releases
and extract the zip in your icy tower directory.
Then run the game again.
I read this tip on https://oldgamesdownload.com/icy-tower/ so all credits to Ceptre
I haven't found yet where Icy Tower saves it high scores.
I wanted to create a backup before reinstalling my pc, so if anyone has a tip for that ;)
ICY TOWERS IS MY THING I ROCK WITH IT I BEAT IT ONE TIME TO THE BUBBLE GUM LEVEL IT WAS FUN AND HARD.
The game worked fine the first time I played it but now it lags everytime making it unplayable.
Welcome, I want to use the character Harold in my game
slick game big classic
Wow, completely forgot about this one!
Spent countless hours in the mid 2000s with my friends downloading new characters and constantly trying to beat eachother's high scores. Very fond memories.
god playing this game again brought back many memories, I miss the early 2000s.
could someone upload other versions?
fond memories of playing this in school during computer time - the whole class trying to get better and better scores. so fun.
fond memories of downloading this game over a dial-up connection in the early 2000s and spending hours racking up high scores.
No comment nor review for this game at the moment.