Straight answers about the New England ski resort tycoon game, the lost hills behind it, and where you can play.
Ice Coast Revival is a single-player ski resort tycoon game about bringing quiet New England ski hills back to life. You build lifts and trails, make and groom snow, set prices, manage staff and finances, grow a base village, and guide a regional career across real lost ski areas.
If you want to design the mountain and run the business, Ice Coast Revival is built around both sides of ski resort management. It combines hands-on lift, trail, snowmaking, and village building with ticket pricing, staffing, weather, reputation, and season finances.
Yes. Ice Coast Revival is rooted in New England and Northeast skiing. Its modest forested mountains, old local lifts, uncertain weather, close-knit base villages, and lost-area history are the point, rather than scenery borrowed from a giant western resort.
You build chairlifts and surface lifts, clear runs and glades, install snowmaking, groom terrain, add parking, lodges, food and drink venues, terrain parks, race courses, and cross-country skiing. You also manage ticket prices, staff, operating costs, skier satisfaction, and the changing weather.
Yes. The regional career draws from real lost or distressed New England ski areas, including Boston Hill, Brodie Mountain, Enchanted Mountain, and Mount Whittier. Real history and geography inform the premise and mountain data, while each playable hill remains a game simulation rather than a literal reconstruction.
Lost ski areas are former ski hills whose lifts closed and whose trails may have returned to forest or found another use. NELSAP stands for the New England Lost Ski Areas Project, which documents that history across the region. Its research helped inspire Ice Coast Revival's lost-area premise.
The full game costs $4.99 USD as a one-time purchase. The plan is simple: buy once and play on supported platforms through the same Ice Coast Revival account.
Yes. A free sandbox demo runs in your web browser with no download and no account required. The $4.99 full game opens the complete experience.
You can play on desktop and mobile web browsers. An iOS beta is available through TestFlight, an Android beta is on Google Play, and a Steam release is planned.
Yes. The browser game supports phones and tablets, with touch controls and a mobile layout. Native iOS and Android versions are also in beta.
Ice Coast Revival is single-player. You do not need an account for local browser play. Signing in is optional and lets your saves and full-game access follow you across supported devices.