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The Fridge is Red cover art

The Fridge is Red

5WORD Team · tinyBuild · 2022-09-27

Steam

ActionAdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Sep 27, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

What is inside the Red Fridge? Collection of six episodes of psychological analog horror. Tour through liminal spaces filled with surreal events and uncanny strangers. Inspired by retro horrors of the PSX era.

56%
positive of 233 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
3h
to beat · rushed 2h
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

A few weeks ago, Frank and his daughter Lorie moved into an old house. The previous owner of the house disappeared under unclear circumstances. One day, Frank found Lorie's favorite doll and crayons near the old red fridge in the basement. The fridge has turned out to possess otherworldly power and anyone who looks away from it will no longer see daylight. Frank has been sitting in the basement looking at the red fridge for several days already. Yet not only the fear of a terrible death keeps him in the basement, but also the hope of getting his daughter back.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 47% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (40 reviews).
  • · Top 46% of 14,612 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.7k–10k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 233 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$11.89-21%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.49 at Fanatical (2026-07-23)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 70 of 98 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
252520222026Week of 2022-09-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$99.99$1.492022-08-092026-09-052022-08-09 — best price $99.992022-11-01 — best price $14.992023-01-05 — best price $14.992023-02-13 — best price $11.992023-04-20 — best price $14.992023-05-15 — best price $9.742023-06-22 — best price $8.992023-07-24 — best price $12.592023-09-14 — best price $7.492023-10-27 — best price $7.502023-11-20 — best price $5.632024-01-04 — best price $14.992024-02-12 — best price $12.292024-03-15 — best price $3.002024-04-09 — best price $11.892024-05-20 — best price $3.192024-07-03 — best price $2.112024-08-08 — best price $13.052024-09-17 — best price $3.742024-10-24 — best price $3.742024-11-30 — best price $3.752025-01-05 — best price $11.012025-02-08 — best price $2.952025-03-28 — best price $11.892025-06-02 — best price $14.992025-08-19 — best price $2.552025-10-09 — best price $12.422025-11-20 — best price $3.742026-01-10 — best price $14.992026-02-24 — best price $11.012026-04-04 — best price $13.492026-05-20 — best price $2.702026-06-24 — best price $11.602026-08-07 — best price $13.202026-09-05 — best price $11.89
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

7
achievements tracked
60.9%
earned "The Fridge Is Red"
26.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Russian, Japanese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)29013%7

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DDarkIndieRetroShortHorrorPuzzleMysterySurrealAdventure

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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