Bad Ice Cream 2 — Play Free Online

Bad Ice Cream 2 is a maze game where you play a scoop of ice cream and the goal of every level is simple: eat all the fruit before anything eats you. It is a top-down, grid-based puzzle with light action, and each stage is a small enclosed room you can read at a glance. Levels are short, so it fits a five-minute break as easily as a long evening.

What makes it a natural fit for a Fireboy and Watergirl fan is the second player. The game is built for one or two people on the same keyboard, and the fun comes from splitting the work: one of you clears fruit on one side while the other fences off enemies on the other. Like the temple games, it rewards talking to each other, but it is faster and less about precise jumping.

How to play

Player one moves with the arrow keys and player two with WASD, so two people can sit side by side at one keyboard. Playing alone, you can use either set. On the ice-cream games in this series the action key builds a row of ice blocks in front of you and, pressed again, smashes them. On this page, try the space bar first if nothing happens.

A round works like this: scan the room, note where each fruit sits, and note the patrol routes of the enemies. Then collect everything to open the way out. Ice is your only tool, so most of the thinking is about where to put it: walls of ice can trap or block a chaser, and breaking a line of blocks can open a path to fruit that was sealed off.

Tips

1. Before you move, spend a few seconds watching how the enemies patrol. Most follow a steady pattern you can exploit.
2. Build ice to corner yourself into safe pockets instead of running in the open, then break out when the danger has moved on.
3. In two-player mode, agree on who takes which half of the room. Two players chasing the same fruit tend to get in each other's way.
4. Don't clear the fruit nearest the exit first; leave it for last so your route back is short.

Similar games on Fireboy and Watergirl

Bad Ice Cream and Bad Ice Cream 3 on this site use the same ice-and-fruit idea, so they are the closest matches. Duo Vikings and Duo Survival 2 are also for two players but lean on cooperation between different characters, and Up Together is a gentler cooperative platformer. The Fireboy and Watergirl temples remain the best choice if you would rather solve puzzles with doors, switches and separate elements.

It suits pairs who want something quick and a bit chaotic, and it also works as a solo puzzle when nobody else is around. It runs in the browser with nothing to install, and a keyboard is the most comfortable way to play.