“Hell's Freezing Over” is nothing short of an indie masterpiece. A brilliant, genre-defying experience that fuses graceful ice skating with demonic elegance. Every detail is crafted with care: the hand-crafted, gothic-inspired art is stunning, with kill-able characters and hellish rinks that feel both sacred and damned. The soundtrack is hypnotic, and elevates every spin, circle, and infernal pirouette into something transcendent. Gameplay is fluid and intuitive, with momentum-based mechanics that perfectly capture the weight and momentum of skating, yet feel light and ethereal when chaining spins mid-glide. The control scheme feels tight and responsive, rewarding creativity and precision in equal measure. What truly sets it apart, though, is its fearless use of Christian symbolism: playing as the Devil—horns, tail, and all—skating not for destruction but redemption, adds a poetic irony that lingers long after the credits roll. It’s a subversive meditation on grace, rebellion, and the beauty of damnation. Reminds me of Tron.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #46 | 4.531 | 4.531 |
| Audio | #134 | 4.122 | 4.122 |
| Enjoyment | #310 | 4.061 | 4.061 |
| Artwork | #412 | 4.286 | 4.286 |
| Narrative | #748 | 3.449 | 3.449 |
Ranked from 49 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
Spin loops with the mouse to stylishly jump and carve holes to hell!
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
We made basically all our assets!
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The controls are really difficult, and it was really frustrating to touch the fire by one pixel after thinking I jumped. 5/5 for creativity. I especially love the art. Every animation is incredible, has so much detail, and its really funny when they die. Also fighting doom guy as the boss is hilarious. I couldn't figure out how to beat him though.
I didn't like the mouse controls but I still had fun. You executed this really well. Good job.
I gave this game an almmost perfect score, because it's just really that good!
The only feedback I have is that the spin jump seems to still require you to spin the mouse even if you enable click to jump. To be honest, I think click to jump should be the default and holding it for longer should enable the spin, because for my verticle mouse, the spin is just really tricky.
Other than that, it's funny, beautiful, engaging and it fits the theme, and the soundtrack rocks too. Really good job!
We're so glad you enjoyed our game!
We definitely had some considerations about accessibility when adding click to jump as an option. You make a good point about different types of peripherals not being able to spin jump, and we might continue iterating on the controls after the jam. Thanks for the honest feedback :D
Very polished and fun to play! Very unique setting and amazing match for the jam's theme!
To be honest, at first I got frustrated by the difficulty (died like 20 times during "jumping over rift" tutorial) until I realized that I need to spin continuously and really fast. But later the game opened to me and was fun! I'd suggest letting players experience basic movement mechanic first, and only then introduce the more advanced technique of jumping.
Your team did a great job overall!
I love this game so much!!! It was not so clear that i play a devil thou. I don't know why. :) Very clean and nice work! Well done!!
this game is so clean?????? my only wish is that you could do little infinity sign loops, so your trail could stay after you complete one circle. the music is so good.... incredible work
This game has so much style and it was such a creative play on the "loop" theme. Addictive gameplay loop and super polished player experience. The music was funky and you feel great when you pull off a sick combo while banishing a poor old grandpa to the depths of hell. Definitely highly recommending this one, amazing stuff!
Loved the concept! Cool use of theme, plus I always love being the bad guy
This is a neat little game, loved it even tho I had to reload a few times to get past the stuck starting screen.
I was confused about which character I was at first as well. Think it would have helped to put the kid to the side and spawn the devil in the center (or maybe a quick tip freeze frame with something like "move the mouse around to change skating direction"). I'm thoroughly impressed with the level of polish and the design is great. Made for an enjoyable game loop. Great job!
Thought I was the kid at first and didn't realize what was happening--pleasantly surprised when i was the devil instead! actually a bit astounded this was concocted in four days, super impressed with everything from idea, to music, to visuals. the last dude is already in my most hated bosses ever--YOURE a joke, not me
Haha, had a lot of fun with this one. Concept is great and I think is the first game where I also thought the music was really awesome.
Only thing that I didn't like was the jump mechanic. "Spinning" doesn't work well , but maybe that's just me.
extremely fun, it was a tad hard but this might just be my favorite jam game so far, the concept is very funny as well
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