Ice Scream Franchise

The **Ice Scream Franchise** (also popularly known as the ***Ice Scream Saga***), is a horror games franchise based on December 1982-January 1983. It was made by Keplerians' Horror Games with the first game being released on September 29, 2019. The game tells us the history of an evil ice cream maker named Rod Sullivan, and also about a Group of friends composed of J Brown, Mike Carter, Lis Owens and Charlie Owens. In the beginning, the player mostly takes the perspective of J, a young boy whose role is to protect and save his friends from Rod. From Ice Scream 5 onwards, the player will take both the role of J, Mike and one of their friends (each one having their own episode) for them to help each other to reunite and escape from Rod's clutches.

In these games - mainly in the first three episodes of the series - each of your friends get kidnapped by Rod, and your objective is rescue all of them and also find out more about Rod's past and of his father's, Joseph Sullivan, before he became an ice cream maker.

## Games (and their release dates)

* Ice Scream 1: Scary game (September 29, 2019)
* Ice Scream 2: Horror Neighborhood (December 13, 2019)
* Ice Scream 3: Horror Neighborhood (March 13, 2020)
* Ice Scream 4: Rod's Factory (May 28, 2021)
* Ice Scream 5 Friends: Mike (September 17, 2021)
* Ice Scream 6 Friends: Charlie (December 16, 2021)
* Ice Scream 7 Friends: Lis (December 16, 2022)
* Ice Scream 8: Final Chapter (December 15, 2023)

## Multiplayer

* Ice Scream United: Multiplayer (Demo) (March 31, 2023)

## Trivia

* The game also has reference to 1980’s popular movies, like a Star Wars drawing found in J's room.
* The game takes place in the same universe as the Evil Nun series, as a sequel, and also takes place in the same universe as Mr. Meat as a prequel.
* The games' icons received a few changes over time.
	+ The first was in Ice Scream 1, with its first icon being just a close up of rod's face.
	+ After an update in Ice Scream 1, The icons changed from Rod holding a number according to the episode and continued like that until Ice Scream 4.
	+ After Ice Scream 4, the logo got changed again, the icons showed Rod with J.'s friends, depending on the episode.
		- However, in June of 2023, the logos of Ice Scream 5, 6, and 7 were also changed, with the current icons made in the same style (of Rod holding a number) of the icons of the first three episodes.
	+ The first chase music of Ice Scream 1 was different from the current chase music which the latter was used up to Ice Scream 3.
* All games seem to be divided by "Seasons”:
	+ First, from Ice Scream 1 to Ice Scream 3, the episodes are called 'Horror Neighborhood', and from Ice Scream 5, the episodes are called 'Ice Scream Friends'.
	+ Strangely Ice Scream 4 is the only game that is different, with it just being called "Rod's Factory".
* The word 'Ice Scream' is mentioned in some part of the games like in Rod's Factory.
* Ice Scream 1 crossed 50M downloads on 28th December 2021, making it one of the most popular horror games ever.
* Ice Scream has the most games out of all the Keplerians' game franchises, currently with a total of 8 episodes.
* The name of Ice Scream 1: Horror Neighborhood was changed to Ice Scream 1: Scary Game (Ice Scream: Horror Game on the App Store) by Keplerians for unknown reasons, and the words Horror Neighborhood in Ice Scream 2 and 3 were removed.