The Fridge is Red

Critic reviews

• Softpedia

  Andrei Dumitrescu · Jan 05, 2023

  8.0

  The Fridge Is Red has a very interesting hour at the start, with a weird premise and a first chapter that intrigued and unsettled me. But the rest of the game, both in terms of narrative and of gameplay, never manages to deliver. The scares are limited, the atmosphere never becomes coherent, and the presentation only has nostalgia working for it.

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• 3rd-strike.com

  Jessica · Nov 17, 2022

  6.2

  The ambiance is good and the few scares that work, really work. It is a pity though that our enjoyment of all that the game has to offer is reduced significantly by the boring bits you have no choice but to get through.

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• Game Skinny

  Jonathan Moore · Nov 04, 2022

  5.0

  With repetitive level design that relies on the same basic principle chapter after chapter, unclear and inconsistent signposting that leads to disorientation at best and frustration at worst, and a lack of compelling gameplay, it can be hard to see what The Fridge is Red could have been.

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• Screen Rant

  Maria Meluso · Oct 06, 2022

  4.0

  Overall, The Fridge is Red succeeds in creating a creepy atmosphere through the use of liminal spaces and excellent sound design. The world immediately pulls players in with its unsettling feeling and almost demands to be explored.

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• Destructoid

  Zoey Handley · Sep 28, 2022

  5.0

  Its puzzle design just involves finding a bunch of stuff to rub on other stuff, which is exactly what adventure games are, but they usually don’t feel like such a chore. In its attempts to tie in the horrors of mundanity, The Fridge is Red manages to make itself just feel mundane.

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• Finger Guns

  Miles Thompson · Sep 29, 2022

  4.0

  The Fridge is Red is an uninspired walking simulator with little actual game to engage with. A cool retro art style and sense of atmosphere dissipate out of this open fridge into the ether of a bland, empty and lukewarm room. This fridge is sadly more grey than red.

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