ICEwall

Released: Oct 14, 2022
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Last updated: 13 Sep 2026, 02:37 GMT

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19 Dec 2023Developer post
Version 1.3.6 Can now Heal when you skip, + more
Heya everyone. I finally did another update for ICEwall, now that Skogdal demo has finally released ;) If you are interested in checking out my new game, you can see it here: Skogdal For this update I have added something that's has been asked about a lot: When you skip a draft,
Heya everyone. I finally did another update for ICEwall, now that Skogdal demo has finally released ;)
If you are interested in checking out my new game, you can see it here: Skogdal
For this update I have added something that's has been asked about a lot:

When you skip a draft, you Heal 1. Making it so you can alway Heal at least 1 between levels in a clutch.
Added player invulnerability when you have defeated all enemies in a level (so remaining shots can't hurt you), I'm surprised I haven't thought about this before, but as I saw it mentioned in a review, if felt like an obvious thing to add.
Re-enabled Holiday decorations, cheers!
Edit: Fixed a bug where sometimes changing FPS settings didn't save properly.
Happy Holidays everyone!
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25 Sep 2023Developer post
Celebrating Steam SHMUP FEST and 1 Year Anniversary with Trading Cards and more
Steam SHMUP FEST is upon us, celebrating this very cool genre of games, ICEwall has to be part of that! The game is also nearing its 1 year anniversary, and to celebrate these occasions I have now added community items to the game: Trading Cards to collect, based on in-game upgra
Steam SHMUP FEST is upon us, celebrating this very cool genre of games, ICEwall has to be part of that!
The game is also nearing its 1 year anniversary, and to celebrate these occasions I have now added community items to the game:

Trading Cards to collect, based on in-game upgrade disks you will recognize
Badges to unlock
Backgrounds to unlock
Emoticons to unlock (one for each of the player ship of the game)
As my game is very niche, these items will also be fairly rare I suspect ;)
And finally, during the SHMUP FEST event, I have set the deepest discount on the game yet, -75% off! I don't plan to run discounts this low very often yet, so this is the best opportunity to grab the game if you haven't already!
See you around!
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24 Apr 2023Developer post
ICEwall won awards at Spillprisen 2022!
Spillprisen 2022 is a Norwegian game awards ceremony that ran last weekend. A ceremony celebrating the Norwegian games industry and games released in the year of 2022, a year we mostly had a large group of smaller and very varied types of indie games released. ICEwall won big and
13 Mar 2023Developer post
Version 1.3.5: Quitting Endless Mode uploads highscore
A small quality of life fix, requested by several players Quitting Endless Mode now uploads a highscore (if it's better than previous), making it so players going infinite don't have to wait for enemies to kill them.
A small quality of life fix, requested by several players

Quitting Endless Mode now uploads a highscore (if it's better than previous), making it so players going infinite don't have to wait for enemies to kill them.
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20 Jan 2023Developer post
Version 1.3.4: Bug fixes
Bug fixes: Fixed a bug where sometimes keyboard/gamepad menu navigation would not work in game mode/player selection screen (and for other menus too). Fixed a very rare case bug where game could potentially crash if you finished arcade mode and had lost Steamworks connection. (Ma
Bug fixes:

Fixed a bug where sometimes keyboard/gamepad menu navigation would not work in game mode/player selection screen (and for other menus too).
Fixed a very rare case bug where game could potentially crash if you finished arcade mode and had lost Steamworks connection.
(Maybe) Fixed lag spike happening for some players when the first enemy in a run has been destroyed, let me know if this is still an issue.
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12 Jan 2023Developer post
Version 1.3.3: Holidays are over
Very minor patch: Took down Holiday decorations, gifts remain though! Minor tweaks to music volumes, more consistent
Very minor patch:

Took down Holiday decorations, gifts remain though!
Minor tweaks to music volumes, more consistent
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04 Jan 2023Developer post
Version 1.3.2: Hackware fire rate fixed for endless
Fixed a bug for endless mode post draft levels, where Hackware wouldn't update fire rate unless you opened the menu. Fixed bug where multiple gift power ups could spawn on the screen at the same time, this might make it slightly more difficult to go infinite in endless mode. Fixe
Fixed a bug for endless mode post draft levels, where Hackware wouldn't update fire rate unless you opened the menu.
Fixed bug where multiple gift power ups could spawn on the screen at the same time, this might make it slightly more difficult to go infinite in endless mode.
Fixed a bug where you could lose a gift if you paused the game while waiting for the gift to fall down (after final enemy had been defeated).
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26 Dec 2022Developer post
Version 1.3.1: Fixed soft-lock bug with gifts
Fixed the bug with soft-lock happening on rare special cases with gifts. This was a hard to replicate bug. Please let me know if it happens again after this patch! Sorry to everyone who had their runs ruined because of this bug!!!
Fixed the bug with soft-lock happening on rare special cases with gifts. This was a hard to replicate bug. Please let me know if it happens again after this patch!
Sorry to everyone who had their runs ruined because of this bug!!!
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21 Dec 2022Developer post
Version 1.3.0: Holiday Gifts update
Hello everyone, tomorrow Steam Winter Sale begins, and to celebrate that along with the upcoming holidays, I have a new update: "Holiday Gifts"! Containing some new content and fixes: New upgrade family: Gifts, with 3 upgrades in total, each of these gives enemies a % chance to s
Hello everyone, tomorrow Steam Winter Sale begins, and to celebrate that along with the upcoming holidays, I have a new update: "Holiday Gifts"! Containing some new content and fixes:

New upgrade family: Gifts, with 3 upgrades in total, each of these gives enemies a % chance to spawn a gift pickup when they are destroyed, which boosts your stats if you manage to collect them. Similar powerups in classic shoot'em ups.
Added a (very short, 0.1s) cooldown to blue reflecting enemies, so that if you hit them with rapid multishots, they don't spawn a wall of projectiles back.
Updated health bar, and added health text in menu, to easier see what your numbers are when you have crazy amounts of health.
Updated sound effect when Chaji Bimu is at max bonus charges.
Decorated the main menu, just in time for the Holidays, phew!
This will be my last update for a while (besides bug fixes or similar). I am really glad to see so many players have played my game, and a lot of youtube videos have been made. A huge thank you to all content creators who have played my game! Currently I am well beyond 1000 copies sold, more than 600 players have completed Normal draft mode, and more than 400 have played Endless mode. Not bad!
Happy Holidays everyone!
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12 Dec 2022Developer post
Version 1.2.3: Misc bug fixes and slight endless boss health adjustments
This is a smaller update with minor bug fixes and some adjustments to Endless Mode boss health. The bugs have mostly been smaller issues, but things that have bothered me nonetheless. Tiger, Death and ROTN bosses have less health in Endless Mode, especially noticeable on level 10
This is a smaller update with minor bug fixes and some adjustments to Endless Mode boss health. The bugs have mostly been smaller issues, but things that have bothered me nonetheless.

Tiger, Death and ROTN bosses have less health in Endless Mode, especially noticeable on level 10.
Fixed UI bug where one UI button or spinning upgrade disk would remaing selected even if you hovered over others with mouse. This was very visible on youtube videos and streams, and has not really been an issue, but has bothered me for a long time. Finally fixed!
Fixed sound bug where sometimes game over sound would trigger many times at the same time, sounding very bad and loud.
Fixed sound bug where lazer enemies would spam sound effects.
I have a small content update planned before the Holidays, and that is the last content update planned for now, I might do more in the future. I have now started work on my next game and will focus on that going forward.
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01 Dec 2022Developer post
Version 1.2.2: Game breaking bug hot fix
Fixed game crash for both levels 1-3 and 1-4 Hard Mode
01 Dec 2022Developer post
Version 1.2.1: Several gameplay tweaks and bug fixes
It's amazing to see several youtubers having picked up this game and made videos about it, I have also seen a great boost to Steam visibility and new users lately! Endless Mode has been out now for a bit more than a week and it has been very fun to see so many names appear on the
It's amazing to see several youtubers having picked up this game and made videos about it, I have also seen a great boost to Steam visibility and new users lately!
Endless Mode has been out now for a bit more than a week and it has been very fun to see so many names appear on the leaderboards, I have no idea how someone managed to get 10 000 000+ score though! But the mode is Endless after all, we might see even higher scores at some point!?
Here are some balance changes and adjustments to Endless mode, most of these are minor and should not significantly change the status of the leaderboards scores:

Made big enemies have slightly less HP.
Fewer blue enemies (reflect) appear.
Made enemies scaling a bit slower around mid level 20s.
Walls have lower HP.
Fixed bug where, on rare occasions, not all enemies needed to be defeated.
I also have some other various tweaks and bug fixes:

Tweaked boss health for Arcade runs, made Brain boss have slightly less HP, Tiger and Death with slightly more HP.
Made Surgeon stronger, with +5 Attack Damage increase and easier target at 80% accuracy (up from 4 damage and 85% accuracy).
Made Ninja Star stronger with +5 Attack Damage (up from 3).
Updated text for Transplant and Rezzer to make them easier to understand.
Increased chance for Super Duper Draft event (both "All Rares" and "Multidraft" super event at the same time).
Removed drone hit sounds if it's indestructible (it might still make sound once to indicate Mother achievement challenge has failed).
Some slight music volume tweaks.
Fixed text description of game modes being cut off.
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22 Nov 2022Developer post
Version 1.2.0: ENDLESS MODE +more
Hello everyone, this will likely be the biggest update for ICEwall to come, I have now finally added an Endless Mode, which seems to have been the most requested feature for the game. In addition there are a tons of fixes and tweaks, and also some other new stuff! ENDLESS MODE, e
Hello everyone, this will likely be the biggest update for ICEwall to come, I have now finally added an Endless Mode, which seems to have been the most requested feature for the game. In addition there are a tons of fixes and tweaks, and also some other new stuff!

ENDLESS MODE, endless procedurally generated levels. This mode only features drafting and one difficulty. New enemies will also appear in this mode, look out for the blue ones!!! Also has a leaderboard.
New achievements for endless mode, this will be the only time I add more achievements, so that completionist don't have to worry for more to come there.
New Super Disc power up: "Ninja Star".
Improved "Tortoise" and "Brute" power ups.
Upated Leaderboards to now show top 30 instead of just top 10.
Added two new settings options: V-Sync on/off and capped FPS to 60 or off. Please note, if V-Sync is toggled on, as by default, this should normally override FPS to match your monitor.
Some minor optimization implemented.
DEMO DISABLED, I was very conflicted wheter or not to disable the demo, and decided to indeed disable it. The demo is very far behind in terms of features, bug fixes and polish, and I feel it gives a very lacking impression of the full game in it's current state. It's also a lot of work to update it. Since I have also started to discount the game more, it will be easier for people to try it out in the future at a low price ;)
If you like the game, tell your friends about it and write a review, it helps a ton. Good luck users!
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03 Nov 2022Developer post
Version 1.1.1: Corrected rounding method for drone damage
Corrected rounding method for drone damage, so that 75% of 10 becomes 8, not 7 (following standard rounding rules for decimals, which I try to keep consistent)
03 Nov 2022Developer post
Version 1.1.0: Lots of balance changes + new upgrades!
I have updated and tweaked a ton of upgrades and ships, my goal has mostly been to make some of the weaker builds stronger and to make some things more sensible! Player projectiles now pass through fortifications! Making them a bit more useful, now you can actually hide behind th
I have updated and tweaked a ton of upgrades and ships, my goal has mostly been to make some of the weaker builds stronger and to make some things more sensible!

Player projectiles now pass through fortifications! Making them a bit more useful, now you can actually hide behind them while shooting.
Buffed the following ships: Big F Fighter, Hearty Duran, Invader D F, Lightning Bolt and Twin Shooter, mostly minor tweaks to make them feel a bit better (fewer drawbacks and some better stats).
Drones buff: they now deal 75% of player damage by default AND I merged the two upgrades: Razor Bots and Hard Cookies into a new spliced upgrade: Razor Cookies!!! Which gives them 100% damage and indestructible. It felt a bit harsh to force the player to make two draft picks to empower the drones. Progress!
Singularity upgrades have gotten slightly stronger.
Chunky slightly better.
Heal upgrades family change + new upgrade disk: Added a new upgrade disk which also simply gives +2 Max Health, as a second upgrade between Durability and Rezzer, giving players more cards to heal with. And I moved the Bioroid as a third upgrade option after selecting Ballerina, as it feels more sensible to have it there.
New upgrade: Transplant, to mirror the updated heal family of disks, damage disks have also gotten a synergy upgrade after Surgeon, which heals you relatively to your total damage.
New upgrade: Codecracker, also to mirror heal and damage families, fire rate disks have gotten a synergy upgrade after Hackware, which gives you damage relatively to your fire rate (this together with Bioroid is hot!).
PS: look forward to the end of November update, it's going to be huge, with a new game mode and other goodies!
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28 Oct 2022Developer post
Version 1.0.9: Additional bug fix for fire rate carry over to next run
Fixed a remaining fringe case bug of attack fire rate from "Hackware" carrying over from one run to the next
Fixed a remaining fringe case bug of attack fire rate from "Hackware" carrying over from one run to the next
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27 Oct 2022Developer post
Version 1.0.8: Difficulty adjustments, upgrade balancing and minor bug fixes
I have a lot of smaller changes in this version, some of them game balancing, I will try to do as little of this as possible, to not mess up leaderboards. Made projectiles slightly faster with "Lightning" and "Lightspeed" upgrades Made "Enhancement" family of upgrades stronger, w
I have a lot of smaller changes in this version, some of them game balancing, I will try to do as little of this as possible, to not mess up leaderboards.

Made projectiles slightly faster with "Lightning" and "Lightspeed" upgrades
Made "Enhancement" family of upgrades stronger, with slightly more damage to "Brute" and "Tortoise", and +1 Max Health to "Defense Fortifications"
Slightly upped difficulty for Hard Mode world 4 (not more enemies, total score is the same) with slightly more health for enemies
Slightly upped health for Death boss
Added drone hit sound and a text line in menu where you can view "Mother: Active/Failed" to easier track Mother achievement in progress
Fixed bug where you would get mother achivement when drone got hit while indestructible
Fixed fringe bug where sometimes you would not be able to fire unless you opened and closed the menu (when playing with mouse)
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25 Oct 2022Developer post
Version 1.0.7: Controller remap option, settings to turn off enemy hit flash
A couple of requested features have been added: Controller remap options, in the settings panel in the top right corner you will find a button to open a controls menu. It's not perfect, but should do the job, let me know if you find issues with this. Note that "Default" category
A couple of requested features have been added:

Controller remap options, in the settings panel in the top right corner you will find a button to open a controls menu. It's not perfect, but should do the job, let me know if you find issues with this. Note that "Default" category is for gameplay and "UI" is for menus.
Added settings option to toggle off white enemy hit flash (when they are hit and not destroyed), which in addition to turning off screen shake and animated background might improve accessibility for people who are sensitive to these features.
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21 Oct 2022Developer post
ICEwall Week 1
One week ago I released ICEwall and the game has already passed it's first hundred sales! I thank everyone who has played my game, written feedback and reviews and everyone who has helped me find bugs and issues. Going forward, I have a few plans and thoughts: I am currently work
One week ago I released ICEwall and the game has already passed it's first hundred sales!
I thank everyone who has played my game, written feedback and reviews and everyone who has helped me find bugs and issues.
Going forward, I have a few plans and thoughts:

I am currently working with controller re-mapping, I expect it to be ready early-ish next week
After that I will look into some performance fixes and optimization
I will also look into maybe making a port for the game to mac and to mobile devices, this depends on the performance. This is mostly for fun and for me to see what effect the game will have on those platforms, as I have a lot of experience making apps previously, it won't be a major focus for me going forward
Finally I have gotten som feedback on the content and difficulty of the game. I do want the game to provide a decent challenge, and I recognize some feel it's too punishing and difficult. Instead of rebalancing and changing the game modes I already have, I have started planning more content for the game, where I want some of it to be even more hardcore and some of it be easier. I am not making any promises on this yet, but hopefully I might have something new and cool before the end of year!
Finally, if you enjoy the game, telling your friends about it and leaving a review is very helpful!
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16 Oct 2022Developer post
Version 1.0.6: Fixed Sniper Achievement
Fixed Sniper achievement which was impossible to get