Review: The Fridge is Red
Horror is a fun little genre. It’s like drama, but it tries to open up your bowels. And we, as humans, are afraid of so many things. Some things we’ve come up with on our own terrify us. Sometimes we’ve decided that things intended to cause joy instead cause fear. It’s great! You don’t even need something tangible, life itself is one long horrifying experience!
The Fridge is Red is a bit of a departure from the usual grotesque slasher horror I’ve been indulging in lately. It’s psychological beyond just, “look out, that cat has got a knife!” It’s downright surreal, nailing what dreams would probably be like if I could dream about something aside from noodles. Unfortunately, while it happens to be consistently arresting with its visuals, it comes up short with just about everything else it attempts.
The Fridge is Red (PC)Developer: 5WORD TeamPublisher: tinyBuildReleased: September 27, 2022MSRP: $14.99
You play as some guy menaced by a fridge. Not directly. It’s one of those passive-aggressive fridges that seem to show up in visions. And while this crimson monolith is omnipresent, that’s about it. It might eat people. Who knows?
The plot throws down its cards a bit too early. The Fridge is Red is about grief. Whether or not you’re living out this grief or merely reliving it is sort of left to interpretation. That’s cool and all, but The Fridge is Red simultaneously gives you too few pieces of the puzzle and too many.
The most frustrating part of its storytelling is how, when you conclude one of the game’s six chapters, it then replays them in a way that demonstrates how the events actually happened. So, while it’s vague about a lot of things, it also brazenly shows you what it’s symbolizing. I don’t know why. I like to
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