Tuxedo Panic

Penguin ice-hopping arcade

Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Open water, thin ice, and everything out there is hungry. Get the colony across, get them fed, get the family back together — and make them look good doing it. Hop your colony north across the drifting pack ice. Tuxedo Panic is an arcade crossing game set on the Antarctic ice. Every floe you land on is moving, the lane above it runs the other way, and the ice is not always solid. Read the gap, then go — one swipe, one hop, anywhere on the screen. FILL EVERY NEST A floe is not done when one bird gets across. Every nest cut into the cliff needs a bird in it, and a bird that makes it stays there for the rest of the floe. The queue waiting on the beach is exactly how many crossings you have left to make. TODAY'S ICE One board a day, built from the date, identical for everyone playing it. Your best on it is a score somebody else can actually answer. HIT THE RAMP Some crossings open out into Fish Dash: Gus takes to the air down a chute of fish, and how much of it you take decides the prize. Clear enough and you choose the prize yourself. DRESS HIM Fish buy hats, scarves, goggles and a bow tie, and whatever Gus wears the colony behind him wears too. AN HOUR OF THE DAY, EVERY FLOE Dawn, clear noon, sunset, dusk, aurora, whiteout — six skies that come round again a little further into the night each time. Every floe north adds one new thing to deal with. Seals haul out on the shelves. Thin ice cracks underfoot and gives way. Orcas breach in open water. The shipping lane opens and the boats do not slow down. THREE WAYS TO PLAY Easy gives you six lives, slower ice and nothing in the sky or under it. Normal is the full crossing. Hard brings skuas working the lanes from above and, from floe 12, a submarine surfacing in the nests themselves on a rhythm you can learn and time your run against — on three lives, for triple points. SOMETHING WORTH THE DETOUR A fish is points. An egg is a life back. A bubble hides you from everything that hunts for ten seconds — carry it and spend it when you choose. And the purple fish is the rare one: throw it, and the seals leave their lanes and crowd round it while you cross behind them. NOWHERE IS QUITE SAFE Every ice shelf has two lanes — a walkway, and a row of snow huts you can duck inside where nothing can reach you. Catching your breath costs you time, and time is score. DRAWN AS IT PLAYS There is not a single image or sound file in the app. Every penguin, floe, orca and note is drawn or synthesised while you play, which is why it fits in under half a megabyte. FREE, NO STRINGS No ads. No subscription. No accounts, no tracking, no analytics and nothing to sign up for. Your top ten stays on your device, under names you choose, and it plays on a plane. There is one thing to buy if you want it — Gus's Backpack, which lets him carry more than one piece of kit at a time — and every part of the game is reachable without it.

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The penguin has a name now. Say hello to Gus. FISH DASH The chute has ramps that throw him into the air, boosters that stack, and a double jump. It ends on how much of it you actually caught — clear ninety per cent and take a prize. Eighty wins him his first bow tie. TODAY'S ICE One board, the same for everyone, until midnight. One run, no continues: just you and the weather. Three objectives a day alongside it, and a streak to keep. SHARE A RUN A card with your score on it and your own bird, wearing whatever you have dressed him in. Drawn at the end of a run, when you ask for it. FISH ARE WORTH SOMETHING Out of continues, a shoal of fish buys you another life — and the price doubles each time. Every fish on the ice is a life you might buy back. THE BIG ONE The orca hunts the floe you are standing on. Watch the ice start to rock, and move. ALSO - The board opens out one lane at a time instead of all at once - Gus's Backpack, an optional purchase, for carrying more than two of anything - Keyboard and game controller support - A wardrobe that shows you what you are buying - A new app icon - Easy, Normal and Hard all start on the short crossing

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    Information

    Seller
    Sasa Novakovic
    Size
    2.1 MB
    Category
    Casual
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
    Languages
    English
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    © 2026 Novak Play
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