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I know there aren't that many, but at least there's a few. I'm not including games that take place during the calendar year either in real time (like Animal Crossing) or not (like Persona).

  • Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams: pretty self-explanatory, it's also included in the later console ports, although it's missing the cool presents you could get, including being able to play as no-copyright himself.

  • James Pond 2: Codename: RoboCod: takes place in Santa's castle and you have to save Christmas.

  • Yakuza: surprisingly many of them take place at Christmas.

  • Daze Before Christmas: a platformer for the Mega Drive and SNES that's not particularly good.

  • Xmas Lemmings: basically demos of Lemmings with Christmas-themed levels, there were a bunch of these for PC and Amiga.

  • Tyrian: Originally a DOS shmup that was released as freeware and now has open source ports, there's a Christmas mode that activates if the system clock is set to December. I'm pretty sure there were other DOS games with Christmas modes too.

  • Duke: Nuclear Winter: a Christmas-themed expansion for Duke Nukem 3D.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

RayForce is about as much of a Christmas game as Die Hard is a Christmas movie, but the true ending to RayCrisis reveals that Operation RAYFORCE saw the X-Lay launch on Dec. 24 MC 0185.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

I wasn't expecting to see someone mention the Ray series* today, let alone in this thread. I'll count them as honorary Christmas games because I love them (I'm definitely never seeing the true ending of RayCrisis).

*Technically, the name for the series might be Ray'Z, because that's what the title of the recent collection used, but I think it looks stupid. You could say I'm not a Ray'Zist kelly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

-kingdom hearts 2, nightmare before Christmas level

-spiderman Miles Morales

-undertale, Snowdin area

-saints row 4, Christmas dlc

-banjo kazooie, freezeezy peak (Christmasy vibes)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

kingdom hearts 2, nightmare before Christmas level

There's also Oogies Revenge for the PS2 lol

spiderman Miles Morales

I totally forgot about this one lol. Peter is out of town for the holidays explicitly

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Lifeline: unique PS2 game that you use a microphone and voice commands as your controls. You give voice commands and control a waitress aboard a rich space hotel that's taken over by aliens during Christmas time and have to survive. Also Mansplaining: The Game.

Blue Stinger: kino

Raw Danger and I think some of the Disaster Report games takes place during Christmas. Absolute cinema choose your adventure. A natural disaster befalls you and you must survive. Some of the choices you can make are absolutely psychopathic and funny lmao.

Parasite Eve is either a Christmas game or a New Years Eve game

PS2 and Dreamcast had amazing B-tier movie-like games that are Christmas games.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

The Koopa Who Stole Christmas SM64DS ROMhack.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Batman Arkham Origin DKC3 there's a cheat to make every bonus level christmas themed with a very nice alternate music Bully theres a christmas section or christmas DLC and the music is also banging

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The classic Hideo Kojima adventure game, Snatcher, is set during Christmas if I remember right

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I had no idea that was set during Christmas.

I also forgot that Batman: Arkham Origins was a Christmas game, and Jazz Jackrabbit 1 & 2: Holiday Hare, even though I had a list of games and that was on there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's mostly inconsequential to the plot, but there's a part involving a Santa Claus and a version of Jingle Bells that plays.

I never played Origins, but I remember one of the Batman Arkham games being Christmasy. Was there another that had a snowy environment?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Arkham City has a winter setting, just not Christmas-related.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Doesn't it also have a Batman/Joker Pieta-ish image somewhere towards the end? I can see where that all blurs together as "Christmas" in my half-remembered memories.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Blue Stinger for the sega dreamcast is as far as I'm aware the goat of Christmas games. Just look it up on youtube and bask in the weirdness.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I remember watching Yahtzee Crawshaw(zero punctuation guy) and friend(he once ate a spoonful of Gatorade powder) play that way back when. It's a weird game

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Obligatory: Die Hard had a tie in game

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

TYRIAN MENTIONED!