Fireboy and Watergirl 3: Ice Temple — Play Free Online

Fireboy and Watergirl 3: Ice Temple is a two-character co-op puzzle platformer. You steer a flame boy and a water girl through a frozen temple, and each level only ends when both of them are standing at their own exit door. Neither character can finish alone, so the whole game is about timing, sharing space and deciding who goes first.

The ice setting is more than decoration. Slick floors make the characters slide past where you meant to stop, which turns simple jumps into small precision problems. Levels are short, usually a minute or two once you see the route, so it suits a quick break as much as a long sitting. It runs in the browser with nothing to install.

If you came to Doodle Jump for one-more-try arcade pacing, this is the slower, thinking side of the catalogue: less reflex, more working out a route and then executing it cleanly.

How to play

On a shared keyboard, one player takes the arrow keys for Fireboy and the other takes W, A and D for Watergirl. Playing alone, you switch your attention between both characters and move them in turn, which is slower but perfectly workable. On a phone the game offers touch controls, though a keyboard is easier for precise jumps.

Each character has a hazard of their own. Fireboy is safe in lava but burns up in water; Watergirl is the reverse. Green goo is deadly to both. Touching the wrong liquid restarts the level, so route planning matters more than speed.

Along the way you collect the matching coloured diamonds, red for Fireboy and blue for Watergirl, and operate the temple's mechanisms: buttons, levers and blocks you can push. A button usually opens something only while it is held down, which is why one character often has to stand still while the other crosses.

Tips

• Look at the whole screen before moving. Most levels have an obvious order, such as who must trigger a platform first, and finding it saves many restarts.
• On ice, tap rather than hold. Short taps let you control where you stop, and holding a direction near a liquid pool is a common way to slide in by accident.
• Leave diamonds for a second pass if they are risky. Reaching the doors is what completes the level, so grab the easy ones on the way and come back for the rest.
• Talk it through when playing with someone. Calling out "hold the button" or "wait" fixes most failed attempts.

Similar games on Doodle Jump

The closest relatives on this site are Fireboy and Watergirl and Fireboy and Watergirl 4: Crystal Temple, which use the same two-character idea in different temples with their own mechanics. For something more solo and reflex-driven, Ovo 2 is a fast precision platformer, and Helix Jump trades puzzles for a one-button drop with quick rounds.

Ice Temple suits two people at one keyboard best, but a patient solo player will enjoy it too.