Similar games
Games like Christmas Story
ZV GAMES · 2025 · Windows
Steam: 90 % positive of 164 reviews, as of Oct 28
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.
24 games that play like Christmas Story and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Crimson Snow (2023), Christmas Nightmare and Irony Of Nightmare.
Player tags
Best matches
Plays and looks like Christmas Story
These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.
Crimson Snow (2023)
94 % positive of 1,273
Shared: Puzzle · Walking Simulator · First-Person
Irony Of Nightmare
86 % positive of 622
Shared: Horror · Story Rich · Adventure
From The Darkness
88 % positive of 3,063
Shared: Walking Simulator · First-Person · Horror
Gift Collector [ギフトコレクター]
82 % positive of 162
Shared: Walking Simulator · First-Person · Horror
By gameplay
Plays like Christmas Story
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Crimson Snow (2023)
94 % positive of 1,273
Shared: Puzzle · Walking Simulator · First-Person
Christmas Nightmare
89 % positive of 348
Shared: Walking Simulator · First-Person · Horror
Irony Of Nightmare
86 % positive of 622
Shared: Horror · Story Rich · Adventure
Evil Holiday
79 % positive of 209
Shared: Walking Simulator · First-Person · Horror
Krampus is Home
80 % positive of 225
Shared: Action-Adventure · First-Person · Horror
Year Walk
91 % positive of 1,257
Shared: Puzzle · Walking Simulator · Horror
From The Darkness
88 % positive of 3,063
Shared: Walking Simulator · First-Person · Horror
Scary Game 2: The Mad Shepherd
89 % positive of 1,329
Shared: Puzzle · Walking Simulator · First-Person
Frosty Nights
70 % positive of 230
Shared: First-Person · Horror · Psychological Horror
Mists of Aiden
90 % positive of 982
Shared: Puzzle · Walking Simulator · First-Person
Tiny Bunny
83 % positive of 27,372
Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Story Rich
Welcome Home
84 % positive of 184
Shared: Action-Adventure · First-Person · Horror
More matches
- KRAMPEN94 % positive of 135Shared: Walking Simulator · Horror · Story Rich
- Gift Collector [ギフトコレクター]82 % positive of 162Shared: Walking Simulator · First-Person · Horror
- Creepy Tale: Some Other Place93 % positive of 549Shared: Puzzle · Action-Adventure · Dark
- September 7th86 % positive of 2,752Shared: Walking Simulator · First-Person · Horror
- Wick87 % positive of 505Shared: First-Person · Horror · Psychological Horror
- Echoes Of The House77 % positive of 153Shared: First-Person · Horror · Psychological Horror
- Banebush93 % positive of 2,181Shared: Horror · Psychological Horror · Story Rich
- Tales of Fear - Episode Zero95 % positive of 617Shared: Puzzle · Walking Simulator · Action-Adventure
- Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?95 % positive of 1,547Shared: Puzzle · First-Person · Horror
- Greed Stays Home86 % positive of 252Shared: Walking Simulator · First-Person · Horror
- The 7th Guest VR91 % positive of 432Shared: Puzzle · First-Person · Horror
- House94 % positive of 2,055Shared: Puzzle · Horror · Psychological Horror
By look
Looks like Christmas Story
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
From The Darkness
88 % positive of 3,063
September 7th
86 % positive of 2,752
Summer of '58
89 % positive of 4,566
Pieces of me
87 % positive of 610
Can I Come In?
89 % positive of 186
9 Childs Street
90 % positive of 743
Gift Collector [ギフトコレクター]
82 % positive of 162
Fuck You Witch
91 % positive of 395
Coincidences?
90 % positive of 410
Irony Of Nightmare
86 % positive of 622
Among Ashes
94 % positive of 434
Crimson Snow (2023)
94 % positive of 1,273
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- LYSA HORA: The Haunted Hill82 % positive of 186
- The Last Visit: 98th80 % positive of 207
- CALLUS74 % positive of 407
- TERPENIE70 % positive of 1,061
- PANELKI86 % positive of 2,473
- Uncanny Tales: 199285 % positive of 355
- Who's at the door?88 % positive of 1,507
- Y. Village - The Visitors80 % positive of 167
At a glance
What games like Christmas Story have in common
- The tags they share most often with Christmas Story: Horror (19 of 24), First-Person (16) and Walking Simulator (12).
- They came out between 2014 and 2026, 2 of them after Christmas Story (2025).
- Best rated by Steam players: Is this Game Trying to Kill Me? (95 % positive of 1,547).
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.