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Christmas Nightmare

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2023

Should you play it?

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

What works

  • Strong festive atmosphere and visuals
  • Engaging holiday-themed story with moral message
  • Well-placed jump scares
  • Short and accessible gameplay
  • Interactive fireworks feature

Things to keep in mind

  • Very short playtime
  • Predictable jump scares
  • Some optimization and performance issues
  • Limited gameplay depth and challenge
  • Lack of audio options and customization

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Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the game’s motivation profile. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Christmas Nightmare: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Strategy, Experimenting, Competence, Survival. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration, Thrill, Violence.

Last update: 26/07/2026