Prisoner of Ice

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Description

Another game in Infogrames' line of H. P. Lovecraft inspired games started by Alone In the Dark, Prisoner of Ice puts you in the role of Lt. Ryan, an American agent stationed aboard the submarine H.M.S. Victoria on a rescue mission to the Antarctic. The Victoria picks up two mysterious crates during the course of the rescue. Before you know it the Captain is eaten alive by the cargo, a horrific monster with whom you are trapped aboard the submarine. And that's just the start of your problems.

Prisoner of Ice features a very simplified version of the classic adventure game interface, where you can left click with the cursor to operate an object or right click to look at it. The program won't let you do anything with these objects, other than the few appropriate actions needed to advance the game.

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Alternate Titles

• "Gevangen in het ijs" -- Dutch title
• "Call of Cthulhu: Prisoner of Ice" -- International title

Part of the Following Groups

• Gameplay feature: Multiple endings
• Games made into comics
• Inspiration: Author - H. P. Lovecraft
• Inspiration: Literature
• Setting: Interwar

User Reviews

Do you wanna be a prisoner forever!? Set yourelf free!!	DOS	MAT (186091)
Decent mid-90s adventure game, but not without faults...	Windows	Apogee IV (2331)
Nazis, Norweigans with speech-problems and general weirdness.	DOS	Joakim Kihlman (275)
Decent story, but doesn't quite cut it as an adventure game.	DOS	Alan Chan (3618)

Critic Reviews

PC Games (Germany)	DOS	Jun, 1995	85 out of 100	85
Adventure Corner	DOS	Mar 04, 2008		80
Tap-Repeatedly/Four Fat Chicks	Macintosh	May, 2002		80
Power Play	DOS	Jun, 1995	79 out of 100	79
PC Multimedia & Entertainment	DOS	Jan 25, 1996	76 out of 100	76
The DOS Spirit	DOS	Sep 03, 2010	4.5 out of 6	75
PC Player (Germany)	DOS	Jun, 1995	74 out of 100	74
Adventure Gamers	Windows	Jul 21, 2006		70
Game Revolution	Macintosh	Jun 05, 2004	B-	67
Mac Ledge	Macintosh	Oct 15, 1996	4.8 out of 10	48

Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
Question about "Prisoner of Ice" game play	3	BostonGeorge (788) Feb 25, 2009
Is there really Windows edition of a game?	11	Dr. M. "Schadenfreude" Von Katze (589) Jul 20, 2007

Trivia

When Ryan arrives at the Buenos Aires library, he meets a blind man named Jorge who is the curator. Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was director of the Buenos Aires public library for some years (although not close to the year 1937, when the game takes place) and began to lose his eyesight in his last years until finally he was completely blind. According to H.P. Lovecraft's writings, the Buenos Aires Library is one of the few places holding a copy of the Necronomicon.

Related Web Sites

• Hints for Prisoner of Ice (If you are stuck in POI, these hints will get you going again.)