Cold Storage
Cold Storage is a branching narrative interactive fiction game centered on Elliot, a young person starting over on their first day at a new restaurant job. A simple task turns dangerous when Elliot is accidentally locked inside the walk-in freezer. As the cold deepens and time begins to distort, Elliot encounters a figure who looks exactly like them—calm, familiar, and relentless.
Through choice-driven dialogue and survival decisions, you guide Elliot through a confrontation with guilt, grief, addiction recovery, and the question underneath it all: Does Elliot believe they deserve to keep living?
This is a character-focused story with multiple endings. Your choices shape Elliot’s mindset and determine what kind of resolution they reach.
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Author’s Note
You may notice that this game does not include a restart button.
That choice was intentional. Cold Storage is designed to feel weighty—your decisions shape Elliot’s internal state, and I wanted each playthrough to feel lived-in rather than easily undone. Instead of immediately restarting to chase a different ending, I encourage you to sit with the one you reached. Consider what your choices say about Elliot’s mindset and what they reveal about survival, guilt, and self-worth; ultimately, what they say about you.
If you do choose to replay (which I highly encourage), I hope you approach it not as a way to correct a mistake, but as an exploration of another version of Elliot’s truth.
Thank you for playing.