Cold Bed on Route

Cold Bed on Route is an equation-style roguelite adventure set aboard a tiny spacecraft adrift in the cold vacuum of space. The ship is a Final Emergency Boat (FEB), built to be ultra-small and ultra-light for last-resort missions. A stowaway named a Doggy—a physically powerful and highly intelligent artificial human with beastlike ears, flesh, bones and blood—has come aboard, making the ship too heavy.

Balance the ship

You work with the Doggy to search for and jettison unnecessary items, then compensate for the extra weight caused by bringing her aboard. That weight is much greater than it first seems.

An equation story

The game follows the structure of an “equation story,” inspired by The Cold Equations, a 1950s science-fiction novella by Tom Godwin. In that story, a stowaway’s presence threatens a mission carrying cargo needed to save many lives, forcing a choice between sacrificing one person and saving many. Cold Bed on Route builds on that dilemma, with the Doggy as its stowaway, and asks whether the universe has gone completely cold.