Games like Christmas Story
If Christmas Story is your kind of game, the closest matches are Luto, Unfeigned Depths and Rose and Cross — 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 Christmas Story: Christmas Story is a horror game filled with Christmas warmth and coziness, where every festive light hides darkness, and the sense of comfort fades with every step you take.
Players who liked Christmas Story also play
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Luto
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Top pick for Christmas Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Story.
Luto is a psychological horror experience where you take on the role of someone unable to leave their home. Every attempt to escape will lead you deeper into the unknown, where nothing is as it seems and everything will test your senses.
Unfeigned Depths
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Christmas Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Christmas Story.
Unfeigned Depths is a first-person psychological thriller where dreams and reality blur. Uncover the dark truth behind your dreams with fully voiced dialogue and dynamic events. Can you unravel the mystery before deception takes hold and your world falls apart?
Rose and Cross
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Third-strongest match for Christmas Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Story.
Our main character, absorbed in the study of sects and the occult, made a big mistake by going to an abandoned farm.
Ajnabee - The Unknown
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Ranked #4 for Christmas Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Story.
Follow Naina’s daily life as it slowly stops belonging to her alone. 🚪 An unseen presence watches 👁️, remembers 📝, and interferes 🕰️ as her sense of safety slowly collapses. 🌑 A deeply atmospheric psychological horror set in India, exploring obsession 💔, fear 😰, and emotional vulnerability.
Lair of Torment
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Ranked #5 for Christmas Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Story.
This is an indie horror game with first-person puzzles. Terror and fear have enveloped the city. The maniac has returned. You sneak into his lair to try and stop him before he goes too far...
What Happened to Lily?
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Ranked #6 for Christmas Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Story.
What Happened to Lily? Is a real-time first-person horror game. Discover the secrets and spooky truths behind the mysterious event at Miller Farm.
Nightmare Shift
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Ranked #7 for Christmas Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Story.
Take on night shifts at a remote motel, handle unsettling guests, and navigate eerie events. Experience Emma’s unnerving apartment life, feel the unease of being watched, and question what’s real as the line between reality and nightmare blurs.
Find Yourself
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Ranked #8 for Christmas Story fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Christmas Story.
Explore the truly frightening subway cars and find out what fears the main character will have to face.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Christmas Story at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~86% under Christmas Story on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Christmas Story.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~57% under Christmas Story on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Christmas Story.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
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Priced ~46% under Christmas Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Story.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~72% under Christmas Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Story.
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 ~79% under Christmas Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Story.
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
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Priced ~86% under Christmas Story on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Christmas Story.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~57% under Christmas Story on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Christmas Story.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
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Priced ~43% under Christmas Story on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Story.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
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 Story.
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 Action and Adventure with Christmas Story.
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 Action and Indie with Christmas Story.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 Story.
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 Story.
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 Action and Indie with Christmas Story.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Christmas Story.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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Rose and Cross
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Another title from ZV GAMES, the studio behind Christmas Story. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Story.
Our main character, absorbed in the study of sects and the occult, made a big mistake by going to an abandoned farm.
Madness inside
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Another title from ZV GAMES, the studio behind Christmas Story. Shares Indie and Adventure with Christmas Story.
"Madness Inside"" immerses you in the dark depths of an abandoned psychiatric hospital, where horrifying experiments were once conducted. Police Lieutenant Vic Voight, in pursuit of a dangerous criminal, unexpectedly finds himself trapped in this nightmarish place.
Ghost Buster:Village
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Another title from ZV GAMES, the studio behind Christmas Story. Shares Action and Indie with Christmas Story.
An extreme blogger travels to an abandoned village that, according to legend, was deserted in a single day. While exploring, he encounters rituals and entities rooted in Slavic mythology. But the truth waiting there is far more terrifying than any legend.
Frequently asked about Christmas Story
- Does Christmas Story run on Steam Deck?
- Christmas Story is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Christmas Story cost?
- Christmas Story is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Christmas Story?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Christmas Story are Luto, Unfeigned Depths, Rose and Cross.
- Who developed Christmas Story?
- Christmas Story was developed by ZV GAMES.
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 Christmas Story.
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