Games like Christmas Nightmare
If Christmas Nightmare is your kind of game, the closest matches are Silent Nights, Abandoned Souls and Chorus of Carcosa — 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.
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Silent Nights
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Top pick for Christmas Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
Silent Nights - A short horror game with realistic graphics, touching storyline and scary moments.
Abandoned Souls
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Second-strongest match for Christmas Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
Abandoned Souls is a horror game, shown through a GoPro lens. You play as a vlogger who specializes in urban exploration.
Chorus of Carcosa
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Third-strongest match for Christmas Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
Chorus of Carcosa is a first-person psychological horror game about an anxious sculptor who is trapped in a dark and ever-changing building. Stay silent, survive its twisted labyrinths and escape the monsters. Just don’t lose your way in the shadows or within your own mind.
Crimson Snow (2023)
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Ranked #4 for Christmas Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
Christmas is a joyful time, but this time something dark is hiding behind the holiday decorations. Your actions will determine whether you and your girlfriend survive Christmas night.
Find Yourself
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Ranked #5 for Christmas Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Christmas Nightmare.
Explore the truly frightening subway cars and find out what fears the main character will have to face.
Visage
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Ranked #6 for Christmas Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
LOST ZION
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Ranked #7 for Christmas Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
Lost Zion is an atmospheric cyberpunk horror game. Awakened by a faint signal as a service bot, explore the forsaken megacity of Lost Zion. Uncover the Emperor's horrific secrets. Obey your sole command: Activate the Gravity Core.
September 7th
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Ranked #8 for Christmas Nightmare fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Christmas Nightmare.
"September 7th" is a short horror game released for Christmas. The plot of the game is simple to the point of banality, and the gameplay is not delayed.The game also contains some Easter eggs and mentions. The game takes place in 2009.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Christmas Nightmare
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The Binding of Isaac
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Reviewers of Christmas Nightmare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
Outlast
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Reviewers of Christmas Nightmare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
Hell is an experiment you can't survive in Outlast, a first-person survival horror game developed by veterans of some of the biggest game franchises in history. As investigative journalist Miles Upshur, explore Mount Massive Asylum and try to survive long enough to discover its terrible secret... if you dare.
The Cat Lady
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Reviewers of Christmas Nightmare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
The Cat Lady follows Susan Ashworth, a lonely 40-year old on the verge of suicide. She has no family, no friends and no hope for a better future. One day she discovers that five strangers will come along and change everything...
The Evil Within
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Reviewers of Christmas Nightmare cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
Resident Evil
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Reviewers of Christmas Nightmare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
The Grinch: Christmas Adventures
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Reviewers of Christmas Nightmare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Christmas Nightmare.
The Grinch has had a wonderful, awful idea – steal all the presents in Who-ville, using gadgets like his stealthy Santa costume and Candy Cane Lasso. Help him sneak around, freeze creatures with snowballs, and learn the meaning of Christmas along the way, in this festive platformer!
SILENT HILL 2
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Reviewers of Christmas Nightmare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
Until Dawn™
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Reviewers of Christmas Nightmare cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
Rebuilt and enhanced for PC – Until Dawn invites you to relive the nightmare, and immerse yourself in a gripping slasher horror where every decision can make the difference between life and death.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Christmas Nightmare at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~60% under Christmas Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
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?
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~60% under Christmas Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
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.
shapez
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Priced ~60% under Christmas Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Christmas Nightmare.
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!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~60% under Christmas Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Christmas Nightmare.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
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Priced ~60% under Christmas Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Christmas Nightmare.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~60% under Christmas Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Christmas Nightmare.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
TYRONE vs COPS
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Priced ~60% under Christmas Nightmare on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Christmas Nightmare.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Christmas Nightmare.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Christmas Nightmare.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Christmas Nightmare.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Christmas Nightmare.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
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.
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Other recommendable Steam games by JustTomcuk, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Abandoned Souls
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Another title from JustTomcuk, the studio behind Christmas Nightmare. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
Abandoned Souls is a horror game, shown through a GoPro lens. You play as a vlogger who specializes in urban exploration.
The Cursed Tape
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Another title from JustTomcuk, the studio behind Christmas Nightmare. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
Someone slipped a mysterious videotape under your door... Do you dare watch it?!
Reflection
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Another title from JustTomcuk, the studio behind Christmas Nightmare. Shares Indie with Christmas Nightmare.
You woke up in some basement and don't remember who you are or how you ended up here... But what you do know is that you need to get out of here...
Silent Nights
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Another title from JustTomcuk, the studio behind Christmas Nightmare. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
Silent Nights - A short horror game with realistic graphics, touching storyline and scary moments.
There's Something In The Ice
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Another title from JustTomcuk, the studio behind Christmas Nightmare. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
In 2015, three scientists at the Antarctic research station "Zarya" drilled into the ice to a depth of 2 kilometers and took samples for study... It seems that what they found was not at all what they were looking for...
In My Head
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Another title from JustTomcuk, the studio behind Christmas Nightmare. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
You have been sent photographs of a place where, according to rumors, an artifact of an ancient civilization is hidden... Do you dare to go there?!
The Dark Gift
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Another title from JustTomcuk, the studio behind Christmas Nightmare. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
The Dark Gift is a horror game about Christmas and New Year.
From The Past
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Another title from JustTomcuk, the studio behind Christmas Nightmare. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Nightmare.
What hides in the depths of the forest?!
Frequently asked about Christmas Nightmare
- Does Christmas Nightmare work on Steam Deck?
- Christmas Nightmare is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Christmas Nightmare cost?
- Christmas Nightmare is listed on Steam at 2.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Christmas Nightmare?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Christmas Nightmare are Silent Nights, Abandoned Souls, Chorus of Carcosa.
- Who developed Christmas Nightmare?
- Christmas Nightmare was developed by JustTomcuk.
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