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Cthulhu Saves Christmas cover art

Cthulhu Saves Christmas

Zeboyd Digital Entertainment LLC · 2019-12-23

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IndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Oct 28, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Jul 14, 2021 (PlayStation 5), Dec 23, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 22, 2020 (Google Stadia)

Eldritch horror saves Christmas for fun & profit in this fast-paced turn-based JRPG comedy.

Cthulhu Saves Christmas is a $9.99 Indie and RPG game released in 2019, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (91% of 337 reviews).

0
playing now
91%
positive of 337 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
4.63★
PlayStation Store rating (100 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 22:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 28 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity up 12% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 19% of 50,072 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 8.4k–20k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 337 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2025-09-29) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 69 of 91 observed days · $1.40 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
373720192026Week of 2019-12-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 22:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 22:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.992019-12-232026-10-152019-12-23 — best price $8.992020-06-25 — best price $6.992020-11-25 — best price $7.492021-02-01 — best price $9.992021-06-09 — best price $6.992021-10-28 — best price $4.992021-12-22 — best price $2.992022-03-21 — best price $4.992022-08-02 — best price $9.992022-11-23 — best price $3.992023-02-27 — best price $3.992023-05-29 — best price $2.492023-07-31 — best price $9.992023-11-02 — best price $9.992024-01-05 — best price $4.992024-02-26 — best price $2.492024-04-11 — best price $9.992024-06-12 — best price $9.992024-08-12 — best price $9.992024-10-28 — best price $1.992025-01-06 — best price $2.492025-03-03 — best price $9.992025-05-01 — best price $1.992025-07-15 — best price $1.992025-09-11 — best price $9.992025-10-15 — best price $1.492025-12-03 — best price $1.392026-01-23 — best price $1.392026-03-19 — best price $1.992026-05-16 — best price $9.992026-07-24 — best price $2.392026-09-02 — best price $2.392026-09-10 — best price $2.392026-09-18 — best price $2.392026-09-26 — best price $2.392026-10-04 — best price $2.392026-10-12 — best price $2.392026-10-15 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

16
achievements tracked
77.6%
earned "Let it Snow"
40.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2019-12-23 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)65749%16
PS5 (PlayStation)48377%17
Switch (Nintendo)230%0

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

Player tags

2DRPGJRPGFunnyIndieRetroComedyFantasyParody Adventure

Census log

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

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