I know there aren’t that many, but at least there’s a few. I’m not including games that take place during the calendar year either in real time (like Animal Crossing) or not (like Persona).

  • Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams: pretty self-explanatory, it’s also included in the later console ports, although it’s missing the cool presents you could get, including being able to play as no-copyright himself.

  • James Pond 2: Codename: RoboCod: takes place in Santa’s castle and you have to save Christmas.

  • Yakuza: surprisingly many of them take place at Christmas.

  • Daze Before Christmas: a platformer for the Mega Drive and SNES that’s not particularly good.

  • Xmas Lemmings: basically demos of Lemmings with Christmas-themed levels, there were a bunch of these for PC and Amiga.

  • Tyrian: Originally a DOS shmup that was released as freeware and now has open source ports, there’s a Christmas mode that activates if the system clock is set to December. I’m pretty sure there were other DOS games with Christmas modes too.

  • Duke: Nuclear Winter: a Christmas-themed expansion for Duke Nukem 3D.

  • M68040 [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    RayForce is about as much of a Christmas game as Die Hard is a Christmas movie, but the true ending to RayCrisis reveals that Operation RAYFORCE saw the X-Lay launch on Dec. 24 MC 0185.

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      I wasn’t expecting to see someone mention the Ray series* today, let alone in this thread. I’ll count them as honorary Christmas games because I love them (I’m definitely never seeing the true ending of RayCrisis).

      *Technically, the name for the series might be Ray’Z, because that’s what the title of the recent collection used, but I think it looks stupid. You could say I’m not a Ray’Zist kelly

  • curmudgeonthefrog [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    -kingdom hearts 2, nightmare before Christmas level

    -spiderman Miles Morales

    -undertale, Snowdin area

    -saints row 4, Christmas dlc

    -banjo kazooie, freezeezy peak (Christmasy vibes)

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      14 hours ago

      kingdom hearts 2, nightmare before Christmas level

      There’s also Oogies Revenge for the PS2 lol

      spiderman Miles Morales

      I totally forgot about this one lol. Peter is out of town for the holidays explicitly

  • let_me_tank_her [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Lifeline: unique PS2 game that you use a microphone and voice commands as your controls. You give voice commands and control a waitress aboard a rich space hotel that’s taken over by aliens during Christmas time and have to survive. Also Mansplaining: The Game.

    Blue Stinger: kino

    Raw Danger and I think some of the Disaster Report games takes place during Christmas. Absolute cinema choose your adventure. A natural disaster befalls you and you must survive. Some of the choices you can make are absolutely psychopathic and funny lmao.

    Parasite Eve is either a Christmas game or a New Years Eve game

    PS2 and Dreamcast had amazing B-tier movie-like games that are Christmas games.

    • Aradina [She/They]@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I remember watching Yahtzee Crawshaw(zero punctuation guy) and friend(he once ate a spoonful of Gatorade powder) play that way back when. It’s a weird game

  • Cutecity [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Batman Arkham Origin DKC3 there’s a cheat to make every bonus level christmas themed with a very nice alternate music Bully theres a christmas section or christmas DLC and the music is also banging