Ice & Sand

Ice and Sand

Summer is the worst possible season to build a castle out of ice. Build one anyway.

Every level shows you a target silhouette. Drop ice pieces onto the beach to match it — but here's the catch: every piece you place costs one sun pass. Any ice exposed to the sky melts away, and ice with nothing beneath it falls. The castle you're building is also the castle that's disappearing.

So you don't just place pieces. You place them in the right order, in the right shape, with the right things stacked on top to keep the sun off.

Six kinds of ice, seven packs

Each pack introduces one twist and gives you fifteen levels to get comfortable with it:

• Iron Ice — never melts, but it's heavy and it's permanent

• Thick Ice — takes two sun passes; the first one only thins it

• Platform — never melts, never falls. Rest your ice on it

• Drippy Ice — melts downward too, taking whatever's below with it

• Seed — doesn't melt. It blooms, growing new ice on every open side

Clear enough levels in a pack and the next one opens up. Finish them all and Master Mix unlocks: fifty levels where everything shows up at once.

Every castle gets a photo

Finish a level and the game takes a polaroid of whatever you actually built, then reads the silhouette and captions it. A lonely signpost. Twin peaks on the shore. An archway to the sea. Some of them you'll build on purpose. Most of them you won't.

Made for the Playgama AFK Summer Jam. Plays in the browser, works on mouse or touch.

BGM from Chloe Bauer · SFX from Pixabay