Pengo - A War of Ice Cubes

Acesoft Studio

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About this game

The player control Pengo, a penguin character. Tap the button while pushing the joystick against an ice cube will cause it to slide in that direction until it hits another ice cube or a wall if space directly ahead of it is unoccupied by an ice cube or wall. If that space is occupied, pressing the button will crush the ice cube instead.

The goal is to destroy every Sno-Bee on the board by one of three methods:
• Sliding ice cubes to crush them
• Crushing blocks that contain unhatched Sno-Bee eggs
• Running over them after stunning them at a wall

At the start of each round, a certain number of eggs hatch into Sno-Bees, while other ice cubes flash to indicate that they contain eggs. As the player destroys active Sno-Bees, new ones hatch from the eggs to replace them. Crushing multiple Sno-Bees with one ice cube awards extra points. The Sno-Bees can crush blocks in an attempt to reach Pengo.

Pushing against a wall causes it to vibrate and temporarily stuns any Sno-Bees in contact with it; the player may then crush them with a ice cube or simply run over them to destroy them. Contact with a Sno-Bee costs the player one life.

Three diamond cubes in each round are marked with diamonds and cannot be crushed. Arranging these blocks in a continuous horizontal or vertical line awards 10000 bonus points and temporarily stuns every active Sno-Bee. If the player eliminates every Sno-Bee in less than 60 seconds, bonus points are awarded based on the time taken. The player will add one more life every 50000 points.

The game includes a total of 18 rounds. After every second round, an intermission animations is displayed.

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Ratings and reviews

I deleted this after playing 1 game. The game controls make it impossible to play the game properly. Too frustrating. Make the control area much larger, like a giant X next to the game area, and not picky about having to touch a specific tiny area but anywhere within each quadrant around the giant X, and it might just make the game playable. Other than that, the game looks like a good replica of the arcade version.

If you could use Bluetooth Xbox controller, I would rate this with an infinite amount of stars. Unfortunately you can't, and the onscreen controls are awkward for a game like this. So, 1 star review. Which is a shame, because it plays like the original arcade game

I've been looking for a good Pengo clone for a long time and this is about as good as it gets. The mechanics are all intact, which is the important bit. The main problem is that it's nearly impossible to control the d-pad, leading to a lot of errors when navigating corners and changing direction.

What's new

Updated to support Android 13