Games like American Christmas
If American Christmas is your kind of game, the closest matches are Penguin Panic!, Ooga and ARTIUS: Pure Imagination — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About American Christmas: American Christmas is a Mario-Megaman-Sonic inspired 2D platformer. This game aims to recapture that magic feeling you’d get when gaming during a time in the 90's when 2D platformers reigned king in the gaming industry.
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Penguin Panic!
WHY THIS
Top pick for American Christmas fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with American Christmas.
Penguin! The walruses stole your eggs. Time to get them back. Inspired on classics like Penguin Adventure. Run, jump, and stomp your way through 17 vibrant levels in this fast-paced, family-friendly platformer. Uncover secrets, and collect shiny fish. Pure penguin-powered fun for all ages!
Ooga
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for American Christmas fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with American Christmas.
Help Ooga to retrieve his stolen food stockpile in this fast-paced, spear-based parkour platformer. Play the first world and a half in the free demo, secrets included!
ARTIUS: Pure Imagination
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for American Christmas fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with American Christmas.
ARTIUS is a fast-paced, momentum-based 2D platformer where you play as artists battling to preserve creativity in a world on the verge of artistic extinction! Dash, swing, and smash your way through a vibrant, hand-drawn world in this adrenaline-fueled platformer where art is your strongest weapon.
Blickel
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for American Christmas fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with American Christmas.
A colorful and retro 2D platformer where you must shoot enemies, platform around tough obstacles, and race through several distinct worlds each with its own unique challenges and gameplay elements. Can you make it to the end?
Hatup
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for American Christmas fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with American Christmas.
In Hatup you'll have the mission to go through different challenges with your hat that will allow you to progress through the game's stages. Using different mechanics you will face many challenges and with different levels of difficulty.
Go! Go! PogoGirl
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Ranked #6 for American Christmas fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with American Christmas.
Jump on your pogo stick and bounce, bounce, bounce! Go! Go! PogoGirl is a dynamic, cute and wholesome platformer about a girl and her pogo stick. Bounce your way through the world, collect gems and then bounce some more!
Tightrope Theatre
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Ranked #7 for American Christmas fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with American Christmas.
Tightrope Theatre is now hiring daredevils! Hop on a shaky unicycle and complete increasingly dangerous tightrope acts! Do you have what it takes to become a superstar?
Binky's Trash Service
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for American Christmas fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with American Christmas.
Storm evil lairs... and take out the trash! Play as BINKY in a perilous, precision platformer where you run a garbage collection service for EVIL LAIRS! Optimize your speedrun strats and empty all the trash in 15 unique and colorful mini-Metroidvania maps!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below American Christmas at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under American Christmas on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with American Christmas.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under American Christmas on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with American Christmas.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under American Christmas on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with American Christmas.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under American Christmas on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with American Christmas.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under American Christmas on Steam right now. Shares Casual with American Christmas.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under American Christmas on Steam right now. Shares Casual with American Christmas.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under American Christmas on Steam right now. Shares Action with American Christmas.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under American Christmas on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with American Christmas.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with American Christmas.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with American Christmas.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with American Christmas.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with American Christmas.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with American Christmas.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with American Christmas.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with American Christmas.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with American Christmas.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
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Frequently asked about American Christmas
- How much does American Christmas cost?
- American Christmas is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to American Christmas?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside American Christmas are Penguin Panic!, Ooga, ARTIUS: Pure Imagination.
- Who developed American Christmas?
- American Christmas was developed by Daniel Manzie and published by Daniel Manize.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on American Christmas.
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