Play Cold Dreams - Shareware Online

You creep through dim hallways in a frozen nightmare, poking at surreal puzzles—why’s there a fish in the freezer? The flickering lights and eerie silence make every door creak feel like a bad idea.

File size: 1.96 MB

Game Overview

Cold Dreams - Shareware is one of those weird little DOS games that sticks with you. You wake up in this frozen, half-dream world where nothing makes sense at first—just empty corridors, flickering lights, and these eerie sound effects that make you keep checking over your shoulder. The puzzles start simple (why won't this door open?) but quickly get weirder (why is there a fish in the freezer?).

What I love is how it nails that '90s shareware vibe—low-res graphics that somehow feel more unsettling than modern horror, and this constant feeling that you're missing something important. No tutorials, no quest markers, just you and whatever nightmare logic this game runs on. By the time you find the first note with half the words scratched out, you're already hooked.

It's like someone took Myst, stripped out all the color, and left it in a snowbank overnight. Perfect for when you want something short, strange, and genuinely creepy.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".