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Icy Tower is a simple yet addictive freeware game in which the only goal is simply to climb as high up the titular tower as possible before plummeting to your demise. It can be downloaded here.

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This game provides examples of:

• Bottomless Pit: The bottom of the screen is always one.
• Endless Game
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: There's an icy tower. And you're climbing it. Enough said.
• Excuse Plot
• Game Mod
• Platform Game: You climb platforms until you eventually fall.
• Pretty Fly for a White Guy: The main character, Harold the Homeboy.
• Ratchet Scrolling: Upwards.

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Freeware Games

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