Snow Fort Frenzy Guide – Rolling, Snowmen, Every Rascal and Boss, and How to Get 3 Stars
Snow Fort Frenzy! is a free browser snowball fight where you play Pebble, a penguin guarding an igloo and its fish stash from the Raccoon Rascals. You win a stage by holding off every wave of the gang before the igloo crumbles. This guide covers the controls, how snow, rolling and snowmen work, how to handle every gang member and boss, and how to earn all three stars.
Controls
- Move: WASD or the arrow keys. On phones and tablets, drag on the left side of the screen for the floating joystick.
- Throw: click where you want the snowball to land (hold the button to keep throwing). If you click near a gang member, the throw snaps onto them and leads a moving target. On touch screens, THROW aims for you, or tap the field to throw there. Range is about 11 m.
- Roll: hold Space or the right mouse button (ROLL on touch) to roll a snowball in front of Pebble.
- Slide: Shift (SLIDE on touch) for a belly-slide.
- Pause: Esc or P. Restart: R.
Snow is your ammo
Every throw scoops a little snow from under Pebble’s flippers. Stand in one spot and the snow there runs out (“No snow here!”), so keep moving to fresh, deep snow. Snow slowly falls back in over time, much faster in the Yeti Peak blizzard. There is no snow on the frozen lake, so stay near the shore to reload.
Rolling and bowling
- Hold Roll on snow and a small snowball appears. As you push it, it really eats the snow layer and grows, leaving a trench behind it. The bigger it gets, the slower Pebble pushes it. A ball can grow up to about two metres across.
- Let go of Roll while running and the ball keeps rolling on its own. A rolling ball that hits the gang bowls them over in one go. Two at once is a Double, three at once is a STRIKE (+300).
- Size matters: any ball bowls over Rascals, Hares and Sledders, but Chonk the bear needs a big ball (the HUD chip says “Big”), and the Spoon Crew needs a medium one. A ball that is too small just bumps them.
- On the frozen lake a rolled ball glides a very long way. It is the easiest place to bowl.
- Slide while pushing a ball to kick it forward fast.
- A ball you leave parked is a wall: the gang’s snowballs splat into it (it slowly shrinks), the gang has to walk around it, and a big one stops a Sledder cold.
Snowmen
Push a smaller ball into a big, still one to stack a snowman. The big ball has to be at least medium-big, and the top has to be smaller than the bottom. A green ring and a “Stack!” label show when the ball you are pushing will fit. Snowmen throw at any gang member within about 8 m, soak up snowballs aimed at the igloo, and wreck Sledders that run into them. You can have four at a time, and they slowly wear down as they get hit. Build them on the paths the gang uses to reach the igloo, in the quiet moments between waves.
Sliding and chill
Getting hit makes Pebble chilly (the thermometer at the top left). The chill fades after two seconds without a hit, but at full chill Pebble freezes in an ice block for a couple of seconds and is briefly safe after thawing. The belly-slide dodges everything: snowballs fly over you, and shockwaves, landing rings and sleds can’t touch you while you slide. It also bonks small gang members. It has a short cooldown.
Chicks
Some stages have penguin chicks frozen in ice cubes. Two snowballs (or a slide or a rolling ball) set a chick free. Freed chicks follow Pebble and throw snowballs at the gang. If they get hit they freeze for a few seconds, then carry on.
The Raccoon Rascals
| Gang member | What it does | How to handle it |
|---|---|---|
| Rascal | Walks up and pelts Pebble, your snowmen or the igloo. Two hits knock it out. | Throw from a bit further than its reach, or bowl a line of them. |
| Zippy Hare | Runs straight for the fish pile, grabs a fish and runs home. An escaped fish costs igloo health. | One hit, even on the way out, and the fish is saved. |
| Sledder | Zooms down a straight lane shown by a red stripe. Crashing into the igloo hurts it a lot. | One snowball knocks it off. A big ball or a snowman in the lane makes it crash. Step out of the stripe. |
| Chonk | A polar bear cub with big snowballs that chill you a lot and hit the igloo hard. Six hits to beat. | A big rolling ball bowls it over at once. |
| Spoon Crew | Parks far away and lobs giant snowballs at the igloo. The ring on the snow shows where it lands. | Go out and take it down quickly. Don’t stand in the ring. |
Bosses
- King Rocco (Frosty Meadow): throws three snowballs at once (five when he gets angry at half health) and whistles for Rascal backup now and then. Snowmen and bowling deal with the backup, and a big ball does heavy damage to him.
- Plowzilla (Pinewood Pass): a toy snowplow that charges down lanes and scrapes the snow away as it goes. Its blade blocks snowballs from the front, so hit it from the side or back. Make it crash into a big snowball (or a tree, a rock or the igloo) and it is stunned for a few seconds, taking double damage.
- Wally Walrus (Twinkle Lake): belly-slides across the ice (bouncing off the edge once), sprays a fan of icicles and belly-flops a shockwave. Slide through the shockwave, and bowl him with big balls on the ice.
- The Yeti King (Yeti Peak): hurls boulders (watch the landing ring), pounds the ground with a wide shockwave, and roars for backup at two thirds and one third of his health. Slide through the shockwave and keep snowmen around the igloo.
How to get 3 stars
Each stage has three stars:
- Defend the igloo: clear every wave.
- Igloo health: finish with the igloo above the percentage shown on the stage card (it is lower on boss stages).
- The challenge: never get frozen, bowl over a number of gang members, build snowmen, free every chick, or bowl three at once for a STRIKE.
Tips: build one or two snowmen before the first wave arrives, deal with Hares and Spoon Crews first, keep moving so you always have snow, and save the belly-slide for shockwaves and sleds.
Fish, gear and outfits
You earn fish from every stage (your score divided by 100, half if the igloo falls). Spend them in the Gear Shop: Mighty Mitts (throw faster), Cozy Scarf (get chilly slower), Big Scoop (rolled balls grow faster) and Carrot Crate (stronger snowmen), each with three levels. Stars unlock eight outfits for Pebble, from a bobble hat to an aurora beanie.
Blizzard Bash
Win three stages to unlock Blizzard Bash, the endless mode. Waves keep getting bigger, a boss shows up every fifth wave, and the igloo gets patched up a little after each boss wave. Hold out as long as you can for a high score.