Freeze or Sneeze

Enamel Town needs a doctor

Spot the sign.
Choose the cure.
Help the town.

Freeze or Sneeze is a cheerful city-health adventure where players observe patients, recognise symptoms, choose the right cure, and help Enamel Town thrive.

Explore the game Play on Android
A shift in progress in the Little Clinic. Cheerful patients wander a warm paper-cut floor; one patient with red eyes and spots stands inside an orange spread ring, and a row of cure cards fills the bottom of the screen.

The core loop

Four things, over and over, and never quite the same

A shift is a small, readable puzzle. Everything a player needs is drawn on the patients themselves.

Observe

Patients arrive and wander the room. Watch faces, cheeks, arms and the air around them.

Recognise

Every illness wears a costume of visible signs. Spots, red eyes, a held belly, a scratch, an ache bolt overhead.

Treat

Pick a cure from the tray, then tap the patient. The right choice cures them and stops the spread.

Grow

Score, XP and coins feed the Shift Report, the Doctor's Guide, the clinic and the map.

Enamel Town

A warm paper-cut city that grows with the player

Enamel Town is drawn flat and friendly: cream paper, white card surfaces, ink outlines and hard little shadows. Nobody in it is frightening. Illness is a costume worn by a cheerful person, never damage done to them.

Eight places open up as the player earns them, and each one plays differently. Sunny Park spreads fast. The Town Market is crowded. Central Hospital sends bigger cases. The Night Bus lets nobody move a seat.

Tour the world
The City Health Map. Eight named places — Little Clinic, School District, Sunny Park, Town Market, Central Hospital, City Health Network, The Lido and The Night Bus — sit along a pale river, joined by dotted paths. Only the Little Clinic is unlocked.
Sprout's growth sheet. A seedling in a glass jar with a smiling face, shown across three stages and six expressions: first a bare jar with two leaves, then with a third leaf, clipboard and satchel, then with a marigold flower and a headlamp.

Sprout

A companion who grows alongside you

Sprout is a seedling in a glass jar with a face and a clipboard. Sprout asks for something each day, cheers the good shifts, and steadies the bad ones.

Sprout only ever gains. Every stage keeps everything the stage before it earned, so growth is always visible and nothing is ever taken away.

Five stages
SproutLevel 1 — jar, two leaves
SaplingLevel 3 — third leaf, clipboard, satchel
BloomLevel 5 — marigold flower, headlamp
ScholarLevel 8 — lab coat, spectacles
LegendLevel 12 — marigold cape, enamel pin

A look at it

Six screens from the current build

Every screenshot on this site comes from the real game.

A calm moment in the arena. A small top bar shows town health and score; a handful of patients stand well apart on the clinic floor.
The arenaOne persistent top bar, and the floor left clear for the cast.
The cure tray at the bottom of the screen. Cure cards are drawn as flat ink-outlined icons with plain names underneath, one of them selected.
The cure trayCards read by silhouette, so choosing stays fast.
The City Health Map with eight named places joined by dotted paths, most of them still locked.
The mapEight places, each with its own rule.
The clinic hub screen, listing upgradeable parts of the clinic with their next stage and cost.
The clinicCoins turn into reception desks, chairs and equipment.
The Doctor's Guide, Illnesses tab. Each illness has a card with its symptoms and a mastery meter; undiscovered ones stay blank.
The Doctor's GuideCards fill in as illnesses, cures and citizens are met.
The Shift Report panel. Speed, Accuracy and Containment each get a letter grade, followed by score, XP and coins, and a keepsake postcard showing Sprout.
Shift Report and postcardThree grades, then a postcard to keep.
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What makes it different

Four decisions the whole game rests on

Symptoms are visible clues

No hidden statistics and no guessing. Each illness is drawn with a primary sign you cannot miss, and quieter secondary and tertiary signs for the players who look harder. Chickenpox and measles are deliberately separated by more than colour.

The town grows with the player

Coins raise the clinic part by part. Levels open new places on the map. Sprout gains a leaf, a lamp, a coat, a cape. Progress is something you can point at on screen.

Pressure is readable, not frightening

A sick patient's spread radius is drawn on the floor. A healthy patient standing inside it fills a visible exposure meter, and it drains again the moment they walk away. Danger can always be seen coming, and always interrupted.

Collections make each shift matter

Every shift can turn up a new illness card, a new cure, a rare citizen, a badge, a theme — and a postcard souvenir of the run itself.

Where to play

Android build available

Current build: playtest. Still in development.

Freeze or Sneeze is not on a store yet. The current Android build is a playtest build: playable start to finish, but still being tuned.

Download the current Android build

Version 1.0 (build 1) · 10.6 MB · Android 7.0 and newer. Full details, checksum and release notes on the download page.

For grown-ups

What this is, plainly

  • A fictional game about noticing signs and choosing cures. It is not medical advice, and it does not teach diagnosis.
  • The Android build declares no permissions at all, including no internet permission. It cannot reach the network, so it plays entirely offline and nothing leaves the device.
  • No accounts. Progress is saved on the device and can be erased from Settings.
  • No personal information is asked for, by the game or by this website.
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