
- 50/100
- Critics1 review

1995 · Shooter
Ice & Fire
Fly a spaceship around pre-arranged paths to enter areas where you dismount and take on aliens in a first person shooter using weapons based on ice and fire.
- Released
- 1 September 1995
- Platforms
- Windows
- Genres
- Shooter
- Developers
- —
- Publishers
- —
- Perspective
- First person
- Themes
- ActionScience fiction
- Age ratings
- ESRB E
About
Ice & Fire is a 1995 first-person shooter puzzle video game from Zombie Studios. The game was described as a cross between Doom and Concentration.
Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
In Ice and Fire, players are cast as the last hope for a desolate asteroid known as IF-1, armed only with elemental blasters and a mandate to revive a frozen world. The game unfolds across a series of increasingly intricate mazes populated by alien foes, demanding both spatial memory and puzzle-solving endurance. Each level hides passwords essential for progression, often leaving players scouring for elusive keys long after the combat has ended. The outer shell of the asteroid itself forms a larger navigational maze, where players must make split-second directional choices while flying and engaging enemies. A map overlay is provided for assistance.
Development
Ice & Fire was developed with the help of Tetris creators Alexey Pajitnov and Vladimir Pokhilko. The game had a marketing budget of $1 million.
Reception
GameSpot gave the game a score of five out of ten, stating: "This game tests patience and logic, and Doom fans will find the only similarities here are the first-person perspective and the letter 'D' in the name. A tedious puzzle game in action game's clothing."
The game was not a big commercial success.
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