Glacier Crack is our version of the classic brick-breaking game, carried up to the station on a sled. You steer a paddle along the bottom of the stage. Above it, a snowball bounces off the walls and the ceiling, and every time it meets a brick of ice, that brick shatters. Your job is to keep the snowball in play and aim it at what is left.
There are twelve walls, each laid out by hand, from the gentle First Frost to the dense Heart of the Glacier. Some bricks are glacier hearts: they take two hits and glow after the first. Others are power-up bricks that always release the same helper when broken, so you can plan around them. You start each wall with three lives, and the number left when you clear it decides your stars.
How to play Glacier Crack
- Choose a wall from the level list; the first is open and each cleared wall unlocks the next one.
- Launch the snowball from the paddle and send it up towards the bricks waiting above.
- Move the paddle with your pointer, finger or arrow keys to keep the snowball from falling.
- Hit the snowball with different parts of the paddle to change its angle and pick out targets.
- Break every brick, including the two-hit glacier hearts, to clear the wall and collect your stars.
Glacier Crack controls
Getting better at Glacier Crack
- Catch the snowball near the paddle’s end to send it out at a sharp angle towards a stubborn corner.
- Open a gap at one side of the wall; a snowball loose behind the bricks clears them for you.
- Crack glacier hearts early while bricks around them are still there to bounce the snowball back.
- With twin snowballs in play, track the lower one and let the higher one look after itself.
- Never lunge for a falling power-up if it means leaving the snowball to drop past your paddle.
Aiming with the paddle, not just blocking
The single most important thing to learn in Glacier Crack is that the snowball’s new direction depends on where it touches the paddle. A hit near the centre sends it up fairly straight. A hit near either end sends it off at a steep slant. That turns the paddle from a simple shield into a steering tool, and it changes how every wall plays.
Once you feel this, you stop just returning the snowball and start choosing targets: the last brick in a top corner, a glacier heart still glowing from its first hit, a narrow gap that lets the snowball sneak behind the wall and rattle about. The best rounds feel like a calm game of pool on a frozen lake rather than a scramble, and each clean shot earns a small, private cheer.
Power-up bricks that keep their promises
Some bricks carry helpers. We designed them so that each power-up brick always releases the same thing, rather than leaving it to chance, which means you can learn a wall and plan when to break them. Catch the falling capsule with your paddle and the effect kicks in at once.
The wide paddle gives you a longer, more forgiving surface for a while. Twin snowballs adds a second ball, which can tear through a crowded wall in seconds if you keep your nerve. Slow pace calms everything down, perfect for picking off a final brick. Because the bricks never change their contents, replaying a wall becomes a puzzle of timing as much as reflexes, and three stars start to feel within reach.
Questions about Glacier Crack
Clear a wall and your stars match the lives you still have, up to three. Every remaining life also adds a bonus to your score, so careful play pays twice.
That is a glacier heart. It takes two hits to break and glows after the first, so it is worth cracking early while other bricks are around to bounce the snowball back.
Yes. Cleared walls and your best results are stored in your browser, so you can come back later and carry on from the furthest wall you reached.
