Icebreaker is a puzzle/shooter that has the player take control of a flying pyramid who has to navigate through 150 levels blasting other stationary pyramids. The stationary pyramids are either green, blue or red and can turn into each others colors throughout a level. The red pyramids can be destroyed by being shot, the blue pyramids are destroyed by being touched, and the green pyramids are destroyed by luring enemy pyramids into them.

There are also many different environments to play in such as ice fields, swamps, lava pits and bottomless pits, four different difficulty settings to choose from that range from easy to insane and eighteen different music tracks that can be changed during the game.