ICY - Journey on the White Wasteland

ICY - Journey on the White Wasteland is a wonderfully designed and written text-based RPG that's more of a visual novel than a game. It uses hand-drawn artwork and excellent audio to create the setting, a post-apocalyptic world that’s crippled by a new ice age.

In ICY - Journey on the White Wasteland you take over leadership of a small group of nomads and have to do your best to ensure their survival and yours. Depending on your actions, words and decisions the story will take different turns and each choice you make has consequences.

The characters you meet in the game are unique, they have their own personalities and thoughts. They will not always be easily swayed by your words, or blindly accept your decisions. ICY puts a lot of focus on choice and outcome, and as you play you will feel the pressure of decision making. More so, since the game features a really good soundtrack and sound effects to match, it manages to create an atmosphere that pulls you into the story and keeps you there.

ICY’s gameplay is a treat. It feels like a tabletop but it’s just you and a DM who’s hidden. Scavenging, hunting, fighting, everything rests on the roll of the dice and you’ll keep your fingers crossed every time you make a choice.

The game will keep you on your toes all the time, and that’s a wonderful thing. You have day/night cycles that influence gameplay, procedural events that are triggered without warning but the best and hardest thing in the game will be taking care of your group.

Games like ICY - Journey on the White Wasteland are more than RPGs. They tell as story and when you can actively shape their outcome you become part of them. It will pull out feelings of joy, sadness, regret and relieve, something that’s always great about a game.