Ice Scream 4: Rod's Factory

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Rod has your friends caged in his factory. Get them out.

Platforms: iPhone, Android
Price: Free to play
Rated: 4.4 of 5 from 3,538 ratings on the App Store; 4.2 of 5 from 151,254 ratings on Google Play
Players: 1
Controls: Touch controls: joystick to move, swipe to look, buttons to pick up, use and hide
Made by: Keplerians
Released: 2021

What frightens Rod, the masked ice cream man, has locked your three friends in cages in his factory; you sneak through its connected halls, dodge the Mini Rod guards who alert him, hide when he comes and solve puzzles to free them before anyone ends up in the extraction room.
Content: jumpscares, cartoon violence.

Ice Scream 4: Rod's Factory is the fourth game in Keplerians' free mobile horror series. Rod, the masked ice cream man, has taken your three friends to his factory, and you explore it in first person, dodging his Mini Rod guards and hiding from him while you solve puzzles to free them from their cages.

About Ice Scream 4: Rod's Factory

Ice Scream 4: Rod's Factory came out in 2021 for iPhone and Android, the fourth chapter of Keplerians' Ice Scream series; it and each later chapter have more than ten million downloads on Google Play. After rescuing their friends from Rod several times, the children have been captured again, and this time the evil ice cream maker takes them to his factory.

For the first time in the series the setting is one large, connected place with no loading screens: production halls, storerooms and the cage room beside the extraction room, with Rod's Frosty vans parked inside. You explore it freely, gather items and solve puzzles to unlock your friends' cages, and the factory also tells you more about Rod's past and his father, Joseph Sullivan.

The threat is Rod himself, in his cracked grinning mask and stained apron, and his new helpers, the Mini Rods: small guards who patrol and call him if they spot you. You hide, slip past them and run when you are seen. Headphones help, since you hear Rod before you see him. A hint window helps with the puzzles, and a ghost mode lets nervous players explore with no risk, while higher difficulties make Rod and his helpers sharper.

It is scary in a cartoon way, made for all ages, and suits younger players and anyone who enjoyed Granny or Evil Nun and wants a longer, story-led chase.

How to play Ice Scream 4: Rod's Factory

Download Ice Scream 4 free from the App Store or Google Play.
Choose a difficulty, or ghost mode to explore without danger.
Explore the factory to find the items and puzzle answers that open your friends' cages.
Watch for the Mini Rods: if one sees you it alerts Rod, so stay out of their sight.
Hide or run when Rod comes, then free your friends and escape.

Screenshots

Ice Scream 4 screenshot: a small Mini Rod guard in a hard hat stands in a tiled room where the captured children sit in cages beside the extraction room door

Tips

Play with headphones: Rod's footsteps and the guards' alarms warn you before you see them.
Use ghost mode first to learn the factory's layout without being chased.
Open the hint window if you are stuck; it explains each puzzle step by step.