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A Good Snowman

Is Hard To Build

Ratings

Age

4+

Category

Puzzle

Languages

English

A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build is an adorable puzzle game about being a monster and building snowmen. In a series of beautiful, minimalist gardens, you must roll snowballs to create three-tiered snowmen. The catch? A snowball grows in size every time it rolls over a snowy tile. You must carefully plan your route to ensure you have a small, medium, and large snowball that can be stacked on top of each other. With its charming art style, relaxing soundtrack, and clever 'undo' mechanic, it’s a challenging but stress-free experience for puzzle lovers.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

90/100

A Good Snowman is a masterclass in puzzle design. The premise is so simple—roll three balls of snow together to make a snowman—but the execution is brilliant. Because the snowballs grow as you roll them over snowy ground, every move you make changes the state of the board in a way that can both help and hinder you.

The atmosphere is incredibly cozy and heartwarming. Hugging the snowmen you've built is a lovely touch that makes the game feel personal. It starts out easy, but some of the later puzzles require some serious lateral thinking. It’s a quiet, beautiful, and deeply satisfying puzzle game that I recommend to everyone.

Dinsun reviewed on: Tue Dec 23 2025

Features

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Dozens of hand-crafted puzzles

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Adorable art and sound design

3

Infinite undo system for stress-free solving

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Hidden secrets and extra-hard 'Dream' puzzles

Tips & Walkthrough

Gameplays

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Q&A

Yes! Once a snowman is built, you can walk up to it and hug it.

Ratings & Reviews

WOW!! This is awesome!!
Tue Dec 19 2023 Kimberly-O

First of all, the little guy who builds the snowman is adorable! I just completed the fifth and final level. I didn’t even realize there were more “achievements” besides building all of the snowmen when I played this last year. I enjoyed the problem-solving brainwork involved with the initial level. Then to start again to build without leaving the “room”… Uff, I could almost hear the gears grinding. But then… to build the snowmen for the “dreamt” achievement… now THAT was a huge challenge. This has been a great five days of fun.

An exceptional Sokoban-style puzzler
Mon Aug 02 2021 treychoo

This game is charming and tightly executed. [SPOILER]What really sets it apart are the meta-puzzles after completing the main game. Such a clever idea, I’ve rarely played puzzle games that feel like they have so many layers to them. It also manages to feel open-ended without being so open as to seem impossible (e.g. Corrypt).[/SPOILER] The perfect phone puzzler. One of thing I’ve noticed is that I have no sound or music. I would have muted it anyway, so no big deal for me, but it may be some kind of bug.

The Best Game In a While
Sat Feb 25 2017 Me. Bilbo Baggins

The game involves every feature you can think of. The design is beautiful!! Also this is a great game to sit down and relax during the night. If you don't like very big puzzle games I would not recommend this gamers you, but if you love puzzles that are simple yet complex than this is perfect for you. I'm surprised this is actually this cheap being the game has numbers and numbers of puzzles! Now that I have completed the game I would so recommend this to anyone!!

Fantastic!
Sat Mar 03 2018 HoardApps

Thank you so much for dropping the price, I've been waiting years for it to drop (I use Appticker)! This would make a great Apple TV app (with cloud save)! I just gifted it to my bro as well. Ever thought of incorporating a level builder? It would be easy to implement, and would initiate organic sharing between your customers. Maybe then even add in a daily user created puzzle, to keep people coming back?

Beautiful Puzzle App
Sun Dec 18 2016 PeopleKnow

This is a beautiful puzzle app that is enjoyable to play. There are 5 achievements including a metapuzzle at the end that made the game doubly enjoyable. One complaint is that I wish the achievements were less cryptic. Overall, this game is definitely a recommend for those who enjoy puzzle apps.

Excellent puzzler that can be revisited
Fri Jun 10 2022 Izzy_gr

Every once and a while I re-download this game and play it through to the end. Each time is as satisfying as the last

Lil fishy with all the 5 star ratings
Mon Feb 13 2017 Awesomecharlene

The game appears to be a really good game with all the good ratings. Decided to give it a go. Graphics are nice but does not balance out the gameplay. The controls are hard to get used to and I love puzzle games but I lost it on the second puzzle. A little boring. Reviews must have been made by developers themselves or something, because it's definitely not worth the five dollars I've paid. Was originally going to put 2 stars, but that's only if this game was free. (Good bye.. five dollars..)

Good game but to short
Tue Jan 21 2020 Hehhbdeeb

Loved the game but come on there was like 25 levels and the bonus world doesn’t really add more challenge just beat it over in this location

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