Icy Tower characters

Harold the Homeboy is the character the presskit, the Steam description, Wikipedia, and the archive.org blurb all name. He wears a blue hat, spins with stars on a jump, and the fall yell players quote is “Wooooo!” The 1.3.1 tree keeps him in a folder called harold_the_homeboy.

The rest of the default cast

Wikipedia says the package shipped three default characters. A 1.5 sound archive on Spriters Resource names Disco Dave, Harold the Homeboy, and Jungle Jane. Disco Dave is the disco outfit; a Steam thread about the remake asks for Stayin’ Alive to come back with him, which is a community association, not a liner note I can quote from 2001. Jungle Jane has a beat track of her own. A YouTube upload is titled Sounds of Icy Tower: Jungle Jane’s Beat. Wild Wendy joins in the 1.5 drop of 31 Jan 2011. icy.pl calls her a new character with a saloon theme. A Free Lunch Design Facebook photo asks readers to pick among Harold, Wendy, Dave, and Jungle Jane. That is four names from the studio’s own post, so I list four for the 1.5 era. Wikipedia’s three-default count describes the classic game without establishing the exact 1.0 roster.

Skins are not the same as characters

From 1.2 onward you can add a custom character if the folder name matches the files inside it. Polish players split the words: skiny means a data.dat graphics swap for the whole screen, postacie means a character pack. icy.pl’s character index has listed packs such as Czaszka, Eminem, Harold Facebook, and wolfmen. Version 1.4 stopped custom characters from rewriting the game palette. I am not building a page per pack. Search volume does not support it, and several names are one directory listing.

The 2026 cast

Steam says a colorful cast, each with their own looks and sounds. It does not print Harold’s friends by name. Community threads ask whether Wild Wendy, Jungle Jane, or a rave-styled character will return. Until a patch note lists them, I leave the 2026 column as “named in the store text: the cast; named individually: not in the store text.”