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Christmas Nightmare cover art

Christmas Nightmare

JustTomcuk · 2023-12-03

Steam

AdventureIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Dec 04, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Christmas Nightmare is an atmospheric horror game about New Year's Eve.

90%
positive of 357 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$4.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 25 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 44% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (129 reviews).
  • · Top 29% of 21,064 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.1k–16k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 357 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.24 at Steam (2024-06-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 13 of 25 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
11611620232026Week of 2023-12-01: 116 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 4 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$2.242023-12-042026-08-272023-12-04 — best price $4.992024-01-14 — best price $4.992024-02-28 — best price $4.992024-03-21 — best price $4.992024-04-12 — best price $4.992024-05-27 — best price $4.992024-07-11 — best price $4.992024-07-22 — best price $4.992024-09-04 — best price $4.992024-11-04 — best price $4.992024-12-04 — best price $3.242024-12-19 — best price $2.492025-01-25 — best price $2.992025-03-13 — best price $2.492025-04-27 — best price $2.492025-06-03 — best price $2.492025-06-27 — best price $2.492025-08-16 — best price $2.492025-09-29 — best price $2.242025-10-27 — best price $2.492025-12-03 — best price $3.492025-12-18 — best price $3.242026-01-09 — best price $2.992026-02-17 — best price $2.492026-03-19 — best price $2.742026-04-02 — best price $4.992026-05-09 — best price $4.992026-06-15 — best price $4.992026-07-09 — best price $4.992026-07-22 — best price $4.992026-08-27 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

11
achievements tracked
99.4%
earned "Welcome to The Game!"
83.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)18959%11

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DHorrorSurrealColorfulAdventureCinematicRealisticSimulationStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.