ICEY
Worth it · RPG · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $10.99.
- Length
- 2.6h
- Value
- $4.23/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics or better, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
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?
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
November 2023 is where it bottomed out, at $3.84. 42 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 10 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 10 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, 嗜血印 Bloody Spell ($24.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Dex ($19.99, scores 48).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 4,600 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 2.6 hours; clearing it takes 5, which is 2.1 times the campaign.
At 2.6 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
92% start to 17% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
26 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Fun game with a funny narrative but some of the enemy designs are irredeemable dogsh!t, especially the eye with limbs thing. This game is like making friend with a nice guy with a great sense of humor and then he tells you "Oh by the way, I once kicked a dog so hard, he rolled down a slope like a bowling ball". Still worth a try tho.
Despite being several years old, ICEY still feels surprisingly relevant. Playing it in 2026, I can confidently say it's a really good experience. The most original aspect of the game is, without a doubt, its fourth-wall breaking. The narrator constantly comments on what you're doing, and some of the best moments come from deliberately disobeying his instructions and getting scolded for it. That's easily the game's...
Pros: Steam Deck/Linux Friendly Fun Story Interesting Choices Beautiful Anime Art Style Nice Soundtrack Funny Dialogue Cons: Nothing Really ICEY is what happens when a developer decides "What if I combine a hack n' slash side scroller with something like The Stanley Parable?" You have a narrator that wants you to follow a specific path, but becomes irritated if you choose to go off exploring for yourself. Sometimes...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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ICEY scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/553640/iceyThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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