
Christmas lights, winter snow, and a serial killer on the loose. Follow a gifted detective through a twisted holiday night in this story-driven, interactive horror game. Your choices determine who lives, and who dies. Can you outsmart the killer?
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WARNING: This game contains flashing images. If you are sensitive to flashing lights, please proceed with caution.
A Bad Christmas Story is a short, horror interactive fiction experience set in the same universe as Bad Summer. Whether you’re already familiar with Bad Summer or stepping into this world for the first time, A Bad Christmas Story is a standalone, tightly focused horror story you can finish in one sitting.
Another dead body, another day in New Empress. For the crowd, it’s just another story for the evening news in a city that’s long since gone numb. Death is commonplace on these streets, and the police is stretched thin. Experience a gritty, dark setting where every fresh corpse is just another file stamped, shelved, and quietly forgotten.
Step into the shoes of New Empress’s youngest detective. Oliver is intelligent, stubborn, and far too used to spending his holidays staring at corpses. Your choices and investigations shape his drive to find the truth, and how high a price he pays for it.
Experience a Christmas horror tale told through dark, storybook-style imagery and film-inspired angles. Slow pans and stylized hand-drawn animations turn each moment into a dark, eerie moving picture that sticks with you long after the credits roll.
Details come back to haunt you. Information picked up early in the night can unlock smarter choices, sharper questions, and safer outcomes later on. Miss those details, and you’ll be left guessing when it matters most. A Bad Christmas Story is built to be finished in a single evening, with meaningful choices worth revisiting to see how else this night could have gone.
With over 10+ talented voice actors, every character in Bad Christmas has a distinct voice to bring the gritty streets of New Empress to life.
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
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Fun characters, fun story, great voice acting and it's more than just a visual novel! There's lot of mini games within the story gameplay and we even get multiple endings! Looking forward to Bad Summer even more now! If you like visual novels, or even just fun mysteries, go play!!
I was going into this game thinking it was going to be some cutesy horror game—now that I think about it, the cover art is gnarly AF! It is a visual novel horror game; It is very subtle at times, but also very thought-provoking. This goes for the language used in the game as well. It is telling you the most unhinged shxt and at the same time expelling the words in the most relaxed voice. It is a short game, but there is supposed to be a part 2. I enjoyed this game so much—I love the art style. Oliver is an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and Lexi can eat ♥♥♥♥. Anyway, I replayed some parts because I kept killing people on accident in certain parts. Like this is the strangest world; you almost forget that its not just an investigator trying to find a killer, then—BAMMMMMM! Jump scare. But ummmmmm, 6/10? (or 6.7?). I am glad I got a chance to play this mind fxck of a game. Looking forward for any new content!
Good game. W caseoh
Классная игра, если любите визуальные новеллы и игры в стиле Rusty Lake. Особенно, если хотите провести вечер атмосферно. В плане игрового времени - часа на 2, если хотите пройти сюжет и собрать все достижения. Хотя я все еще не могу пройти на хорошую концовку, чтобы заработать все ачивки. Возможно, для этого нужно пройти игру идеально. Озвучка, рисовка, звуковые и визуальные эффекты очень понравились! Секретная концовка... ладно, не буду спойлерить. Если игра заимеет популярность в неанглоязычных странах, могут появиться локализации от энтузиастов, но история написана без сложных лингвистических конструкций, так что языковой барьер в этом случае - не проблема. P.S. thank you, Lexy, from your TikTok account I found out about this game.
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