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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?

<p class="bb_paragraph" ><strong><i>WARNING: This game contains flashing images. If you are sensitive to flashing lights, please proceed with caution.</i></strong></p><p class="bb_paragraph" ></p><p class="bb_paragraph" ><strong>A Bad Christmas Story</strong> is a short, horror interactive fiction experience set in the same universe as <i>Bad Summer.</i> Whether you’re already familiar with <i>Bad Summer</i> or stepping into this world for the first time, <strong>A Bad Christmas Story</strong> is a standalone, tightly focused horror story you can finish in one sitting.</p><h2 class="bb_tag" >Welcome to New Empress City</h2><p class="bb_paragraph" ><span class="bb_img_ctn"><video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4208460/extras/25c03287c053cb2e534dab84439364ce.poster.avif?t=1769104865" width=600 height=332 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4208460/extras/25c03287c053cb2e534dab84439364ce.webm?t=1769104865" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4208460/extras/25c03287c053cb2e534dab84439364ce.mp4?t=1769104865" type="video/mp4"></video></span></p><p class="bb_paragraph" >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.</p><h2 class="bb_tag" >Play as Detective Oliver Smith</h2><p class="bb_paragraph" ><span class="bb_img_ctn"><video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4208460/extras/592a4d98b3987a8025ec646cebf90da6.poster.avif?t=1769104865" width=600 height=332 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4208460/extras/592a4d98b3987a8025ec646cebf90da6.webm?t=1769104865" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4208460/extras/592a4d98b3987a8025ec646cebf90da6.mp4?t=1769104865" type="video/mp4"></video></span></p><p class="bb_paragraph" >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. </p><h2 class="bb_tag" >Cinematic Storybook</h2><p class="bb_paragraph" ><span class="bb_img_ctn"><video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4208460/extras/44660083398611d4c0fbbd52c4735dc5.poster.avif?t=1769104865" width=600 height=332 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4208460/extras/44660083398611d4c0fbbd52c4735dc5.webm?t=1769104865" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4208460/extras/44660083398611d4c0fbbd52c4735dc5.mp4?t=1769104865" type="video/mp4"></video></span></p><p class="bb_paragraph" >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.</p><h2 class="bb_tag" >Choices Matter</h2><p class="bb_paragraph" ><span class="bb_img_ctn"><video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4208460/extras/e91540c8dbb752411766b7cbdbc3d6e6.poster.avif?t=1769104865" width=600 height=332 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4208460/extras/e91540c8dbb752411766b7cbdbc3d6e6.webm?t=1769104865" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4208460/extras/e91540c8dbb752411766b7cbdbc3d6e6.mp4?t=1769104865" type="video/mp4"></video></span></p><p class="bb_paragraph" > 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. <strong>A Bad Christmas Story</strong> is built to be finished in a single evening, with meaningful choices worth revisiting to see how else this night could have gone.</p><p class="bb_paragraph" ></p><h2 class="bb_tag" >Fully Voiced Experience</h2><p class="bb_paragraph" >With over 10+ talented voice actors, every character in <strong>Bad Christmas</strong> has a distinct voice to bring the gritty streets of New Empress to life.</p><h2 class="bb_tag" ></h2><p class="bb_paragraph" ></p><p class="bb_paragraph" ></p><p class="bb_paragraph" ></p>

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