Winter Games Online: Snow, Ice and New Year Games
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Winter games online are about the season, not one holiday: skiing and sledding down a slope, rolling and throwing snowballs, hockey and fishing on the ice, driving through snow, and quiet puzzles with penguins and polar bears. New Year games add a party, from New Year's Eve fireworks to Lunar New Year. Santa, elves and gifts have their own page, Christmas games online, and the Christmas collection holds the festive rest.
Pick a winter game by mood
| Mood | What you do | Start with |
|---|---|---|
| Downhill | Ski, sled or snowboard and dodge what is in the way | Ski King |
| Snowballs | Roll a snowball bigger or throw it at someone | Snow Ball Race |
| On the ice | Hockey, ice fishing, an icy race | Ice Hockey |
| Snow driving | Monster trucks, rally cars and snow plows | Snow Plow Inc. |
| Cozy | Penguins, a bear puzzle and a snowy jigsaw | Penguin Cafe |
| New Year | Sort, cook and dress up for the party | Sort New Year! |
Skiing, sledding and snowboard games
Most downhill games have one idea: keep going, steer around obstacles, and finish fast or go far.
- Ski King asks you to find the shortest way down the hill through trees and rocks. Pass a flag on the wrong side and the level resets. Upgrade points improve your skills, and each skill changes how you ski.
- Ski Rush sends you down the mountain for as long as you can last, collecting flags for points.
- ZigZag Snow Mountain has one control: steer left and right with the mouse as the piste narrows.
- Ski Challenge 3D adds rolling snowballs and wooden stakes that appear suddenly; slide to ski.
- Snow Slider 3D is an endless sled run with the left and right arrow keys. Trees, rocks and snowmen come faster the farther you go, and gifts pay for new sleds.
- Snow Rush 3D is a sledding run for 1 or 2 players: player 1 steers with A and D and jumps with W or Space, player 2 uses the arrow keys. On a phone, only the one-player mode is on.
- Downhill Snowboard collects coins on the way down for new characters and boards.
- Snow Trial has skiers and snowboarders to collect, tricks, single-player levels and a multiplayer mode.
In every downhill game, look ahead to the next two obstacles, not the one in front of you. In Ski King, line up for the right side of each flag early.
Snowball games
- Snow Ball Race rolls your snowball along a track, collecting snow to make it bigger before the finish line.
- Giant Snowball Rush works the same way, and its own warning is the catch: the bigger the snowball, the harder it is to control.
- SnowFight.io is a big multiplayer snow fight. Grow your snowball and hit other players to knock them off the field.
- StickMan Snow Fight has you move up and down to dodge snowballs, collect your own and throw them with Space.
- Capybara Winter Curse hands you a snowball gun against cursed zombie capybaras, with a giant one as the boss.
Other grow-and-bump games are in io games.
Ice games: hockey, fishing and racing on ice
- Ice Hockey is arcade hockey for one or two players. Player 1 moves up and down with W and S, player 2 with the up and down arrows.
- Hockey Skills sets you speed skating, shooting on goal and target drills; swipe to shoot.
- Hockey World Cup 2024 is a tournament of shooting and saving: swipe to shoot, and when you defend, click where the keeper should go.
- Sake Hockey puts samurai and ninjas on the ice.
- Ice Fishing is the calmest game here. Pick a spot and a bait, do not rush to pull the float, and watch the line tension warning in the top left corner. Each fish earns money for new bait and rods.
- Fun Race On Ice is an obstacle race where stopping matters more than running: hit an obstacle and you are pushed back behind the others.
Air hockey, the table version, has its own guide: how to play air hockey.
Driving in the snow
- Hard Wheels Winter has you balance a heavy monster truck over snowy mountains and other cars.
- Monster Truck Wheels Winter does the same over bridges and obstacles, scoring by speed.
- Snow Rally is a physics-based rally on snowy and icy tracks, with difficulty levels and modes.
- Truck Driver Snowy Roads has 12 off-road trucks, missions, races and free driving, plus a two-player mode: WASD and Space to brake for player 1, the arrow keys for player 2.
- Winter Racing 2D races AI cars on snowy tracks and spends the coins on new cars.
- Snow Plow Inc. turns clearing snow into the job. Plow through powder, packed snow and ice, fill the truck bed, sell the load in the yard and upgrade the plow, over 15 levels with up to 3 stars each.
- Snow Plowing Simulator starts you with a shovel at a small house and moves up to clearing streets, highways and airports.
On snow and ice, a lighter touch on the throttle keeps a truck upright. Balance is the whole game in Hard Wheels Winter. More trucks are in the truck games guide.
Cozy snowy games
- Penguin Cafe helps Berta run a cafe that floats on an iceberg, where penguins, polar bears and walruses live side by side. Click or tap to choose dishes and tables.
- Pengu Pengu sends a penguin to collect every fish and reach its mother and her egg, past polar bears and traps.
- Frozen Escape is a penguin platformer through an ice cave, over 100 levels with yetis, ice golems and frost bats.
- BearShift is a sliding block puzzle: move the blocks so the bear can reach the open gate.
- Winter Snowy Owls Jigsaw has 6 winter owl pictures to piece together.
- Purple Penguin asks you to keep a penguin alive as long as you can by tapping the orcas that come for it.
- Snowflakes Idle RE is an idle game about collecting snowflakes, with 15 colors and ten shapes, and prestige for more.
Jigsaw habits are in online jigsaw puzzle tips.
New Year games
- Sort New Year! is a calm triple-match: move matryoshka dolls and other items onto shelves so three identical ones connect, over an endless run of levels.
- Bffs New Year Eve has two sisters bake cupcakes, dress up and go to the lake to watch the fireworks.
- New Years Eve Makeup gets three friends ready for the party with makeup, dresses and hairstyles.
- Besties Chinese New Year Celebration dresses best friends in traditional and modern outfits for the Lunar New Year.
- Chinese Food Restaurant - Lunar New Year Party is a cooking game for the Lunar New Year rush.
Winter games FAQ
Are there winter games without Christmas?
Yes. Everything on this page is about snow, ice and the new year rather than Santa: Ski King, Snow Rush 3D, Ice Hockey, Snow Plow Inc., Penguin Cafe and the rest.
Which winter games can two people play?
Snow Rush 3D, Ice Hockey and Truck Driver Snowy Roads all have a two-player mode on one keyboard. SnowFight.io is a multiplayer snow fight online.
Do winter games work on a phone?
Many do. Snow Rush 3D has a one-player mode for touch screens, Snow Plow Inc. steers by dragging, and the site works in the browser of a phone, a tablet and a computer.
Do I need to install anything?
No. The games play free, right in the browser, with no install and no registration.
When December comes, the festive side of winter is in Christmas games online.
