Play
▶ Play in your browser (works best on a phone, in portrait or landscape)
The whole game is a single file, www/index.html, with no build step and no dependencies. You can also open it straight from your computer.
About the game
You're Frostvale's new snow plow driver. Each morning the valley wakes up buried, and it's your job to dig it out.
- Plow and earn. Clear roads and parking lots for pay, then upgrade from a town truck to the Summit Plow so you can climb higher up the mountain.
- Neighbours. Each of the 14 townsfolk has a daily routine, favourite gifts, quests, and heart events you keep as snow globe memories.
- Town life.
- Hockey nights for the Frostvale Wolves.
- Emergency dispatch calls.
- Daily weather with a radio forecast.
- Mail every morning.
- Shop owners standing at their counters.
- Seasons and festivals. Each year has four winter seasons (First Snow, Deep Winter, Long Nights and The Thaw), each with its own festival: the Lantern Walk, the Winter Fair, the Plow Parade and the Spring Melt Potluck.
- Collecting.
- Ice fishing on Mirror Lake and Frost Creek.
- Relics dug up from the snow for the Frostvale Archive.
- Long-term goals.
- Restore and reopen Frostpine Ski Hill.
- Three story questlines: The Frost Lights, The Lost Mail of '58 and Big Bertha.
- Make it yours. Customise your character, and give your truck a new paint job, plow blade, light bar and Wolves flag.
Controls
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| Drive or walk | Drag the joystick |
| Raise or lower the plow | PLOW button |
| Talk, shop, enter doors, fish | INTERACT button |
| Leave or get back in the truck | Get out / Get in |
| Goals and events | Quests |
| Items, map, friends, journal, save | Menu |
On a keyboard, WASD or the arrow keys move, E interacts and Space raises or lowers the plow.
New games start with a short tutorial that you can skip. It can be replayed from Menu → Save.
Project layout
www/index.html The complete game (HTML, CSS and JavaScript in one file)
www/privacy.html Privacy policy page (served by GitHub Pages)
assets/ App icon and splash screen source art
media/ Screenshots for this README
tests/smoke.test.js Headless test of core systems (no dependencies)
docs/BUILD-APP.md Building and publishing the iOS and Android apps
capacitor.config.json Native app settings (app name, ID, splash)
package.json Capacitor dependencies and scripts
.github/workflows/ Automatic GitHub Pages deploy and test runs
Development
Edit www/index.html and refresh your browser. To check that nothing broke:
node tests/smoke.test.js
The smoke test runs the game in Node with a stubbed browser. It checks plowing and pay, every parking lot, a full day of NPC and car movement, entering and leaving buildings, rendering by day and night, the mail schedule, and save/load. It also runs automatically on every push.
Saves are stored in the browser's local storage under pp_save_v1. On phones they're stored in native app storage instead.
Mobile apps
Frostvale is set up to ship to the App Store and Google Play with Capacitor. See docs/BUILD-APP.md for setup, running on a phone and the submission checklist.
License
Copyright © 2026. All rights reserved. See LICENSE.
