How to Play Melt All The Ice
Checked 2026-10-18. Sources: the developer's official game description, the official tags and art (checked 2026-09-27), and two dated third-party gameplay guides published October 2026 — Sportskeeda's beginner's guide (modified 2026-10-08) and allthings.how's map-clearing guide (2026-10-17). Facts from the guides are attributed to them; the official description is quoted as official.
The loop at a glance
Melt All The Ice!🧊 (by The Frozen Studio) is a melting adventure: the world froze over, and you start with nothing but a hairdryer. The official description gives the frame — "Melt the ice and carve your way inside! Buy better tools and upgrade their power! Uncover frozen rooms and discover what caused the freeze! Can you melt every last piece and save the world?" — and the October 2026 gameplay guides document how each piece actually works:
- Melt the ice blocking your path. Your hairdryer blows a heat cone that melts ice block by block — the block you aim at gets a yellow outline and a progress arc, and Coins drop out as it goes (guides, Oct 2026).
- Upgrade mid-run with Coins. Coins only exist for the current run — the Tab menu sells tool upgrades and the Tool Shed sells better tools, so unspent Coins are wasted ones (guides, Oct 2026).
- Find the source of the freeze. Melting exposes the machine behind the cold. Per the guides, every official level traces the freeze to a Polarmax cooling unit — in the Frozen House it waits in the basement behind a three-piece key (see the frozen-rooms page).
- Clear the area around it and switch it off. The run completes when the progress bar hits 100% and the Polarmax lever is flipped to OFF — "HOUSE SAVED!" (+500 Gems) in the house, "POLARMAX SHUT DOWN!" (+1000 Gems) in the tower (guides, Oct 2026).
- Spend the Gems. Gems are the permanent currency: Classes, permanent upgrades, pets and cosmetics all live in the hub area (guides, Oct 2026).
The description's steps are official wording; the mechanics in parentheses are gameplay-sourced claims from the two dated guides, not developer statements.
Controls (PC)
Both October 2026 guides list the same PC bindings — the first time these have been documented anywhere public:
| Action | Input |
|---|---|
| Move | W, A, S, D |
| Jump | Spacebar |
| Interact | E |
| Use tool (hold) | Left Mouse Button |
| View Class-specific boosts | C |
| Teleport to the entrance | Z |
| Settings | M |
| Open the Upgrades menu | Tab |
| "Find the Ice" helper | F (only while its on-screen prompt is showing) |
Source: Sportskeeda guide (modified 2026-10-08) and allthings.how guide (2026-10-18 fetch; published 2026-10-17) — identical bindings in both. The F key turns you toward ice that still needs clearing, which both guides recommend for the last stubborn percent.
Step 1 — start with the hairdryer
You begin holding a 🩷 pink hairdryer — the game's signature starter tool, shown in the official icon and screenshots held first-person. Both guides agree it is intentionally weak: a "low-intensity warm air" cone meant for chipping at the first blocks in front of you. Your first Coins come straight out of that ice, and the porch of the first level works as an unmarked tutorial (allthings.how, 2026-10-17).
Step 2 — upgrade mid-run: Coins are temporary
The description is explicit: "Buy better tools and upgrade their power!" The guides document the economy behind it. Coins drop from melting ice but exist only for the current run — they do not carry over (Sportskeeda, 2026-10-08). So the practical rhythm is: melt → spend Coins immediately in the Tab Upgrades menu or at the Tool Shed ("Better tools. Bigger melts.") → repeat. Both guides say the early Coin targets are Battery Capacity (how long a tool runs before recharging) and Power (melting speed as a percentage); the third track, Size, widens the melted patch and is measured in studs. The full tool ladder — Heat Gun at 160 Coins, Steam Blaster at 650 Coins and the premium Flamethrower — lives on the tools & upgrades page.
Step 3 — finish the run: find the source, shut it off
Melting everything is not the win condition by itself. The ice hides the source of the cold, and per both guides the run only completes when that source is exposed, the area around it is cleared, and its big lever is flipped to OFF. Room-clearing popups ("Porch cleared!", "Kitchen cleared!", "Freezer chamber cleared!") track your way down, and a top banner counts progress to 100% ("House thawed" / "Tower melted"). In the starter Frozen House level that source is a Polarmax freezer reading -18° with its power stuck on MAX — and the key to the basement is split into three frozen pieces hidden in furniture. The full walkthrough of that mystery, including what the fridge note says, is on the frozen-rooms page.
Official Levels vs Community Levels
When you start a map you choose between Official Levels — designed by The Frozen Studio with a set progression path (the guides name Frozen House and Polarmax Plaza as the first two) — and Community Levels built by other players, which can be considerably harder. Both guides recommend beginners start Official. The Halloween Update shipped on 2026-10-17 promises "New maps, pets + more!" (LootSheep event record, checked 2026-10-18), so the Official list is actively growing — the frozen-rooms page tracks what the new maps add as sources confirm it.
Where Gems go after a run
Finishing a map pays Gems — the permanent currency (Sportskeeda, 2026-10-08; allthings.how documents +500 for the house and +1000 for the tower). In the hub area, Gems buy Classes (random playstyle archetypes via 100-Gem Class Spins, ranked by drop rate), permanent upgrades that stack with everything, pets from the Pet Plaza (boosts to Gem income, Coin income and tool performance), and Mystery Boxes (cosmetic tool skins only — no gameplay effect). The pets and Classes systems are documented on the tools & upgrades page.
Playing with others
The game runs 20-player servers and carries the official Co-op tag (official server data; sampled 2026-09-27: public servers at 11–14/20 players, ~60 fps; both October guides confirm the 20-player cap). You'll be melting alongside other players — the game's tags (Cleaning, Cozy, Adventure, Co-op, Simulator, Classes, Upgrades) frame it as a relaxed co-op cleanup adventure rather than a competitive one.
Still not documented (honest list, checked 2026-10-18)
The October guides answered most of this page's original open questions — controls, currencies, tool names and prices, the freeze source and the Classes system are all sourced now (attributed above). What remains genuinely undocumented anywhere public as of 2026-10-18:
- The new Halloween-update maps' names and contents ("New maps, pets + more!" is the entire announcement)
- Class names and their individual drop rates
- Pet names, tiers and prices at the Pet Plaza
- Exact XP/leveling or badge systems (the Roblox Badges API still lists zero badges, checked 2026-10-18)
- Codes (none exist yet — see the codes status page)
We update these pages as real information surfaces — from the official description, the developer's channels, or confirmed gameplay coverage of this game.
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