Christmas Nightmare
Fair · Strategy · 2023
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 0.8h 0.8h to 100%
- Value
- $6.24/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 357 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.38 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 27 and Nov 9, at about $2.24 (55% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 39 days apart.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Christmas Nightmare is an atmospheric horror game about New Year's Eve.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 29 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Exit 8 ($3.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Platform 8 ($3.99, scores 56).
More about Christmas Nightmare
Of the 334 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 89 percent of the 307 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 90 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
99% start to 47% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Cool, short horror game. Is it the scariest? No. Was it super interesting? Not really, but it wasn't bad either. Just a nice simple game to play when you're bored and have ran out of other games to play. Don't have anything negative to say apart from it being like every other 'Fears to Fathom' style of horror games, which is why I didn't find it scary as all the jumpscares were quite predictable.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Christmas Nightmare scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2693460/christmas-nightmareReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.