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Christmas Tale - Visual Novel is a single player action game. It was developed by morojenoe's empire and was released on January 2, 2018. It received negative reviews from players.

Christmas tale - it's a short choice-based visual novel about two days before Christmas.

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15%

Audience ScoreBased on 13 reviews

story4 negative mentions

Some nice background artwork with a few pretty holiday-themed scenes and a falling snow effect.
Short playtime around 30 minutes makes it a quick visual novel to complete.
Includes a few easy achievements that can add to completion stats.

The game is plagued with numerous technical issues including broken endings, freezing, laggy text, save malfunctions, and slow skip function.
Poor English translation characterized by grammar and spelling errors, awkward phrasing, and frequent inappropriate swearing.
Shallow, uninspired, and difficult-to-follow story featuring a depressive and cynical main character, with minimal meaningful choices and low-quality graphics.

story
19 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
16%
63%
21%
The story is a short, holiday-themed slice-of-life narrative with minimal characters and choices, largely criticized for its poor English translation, grammatical errors, and uninspired writing. While it offers some humor and a few different endings, players found it shallow, boring, and negatively toned despite the Christmas setting. These issues, combined with technical problems, significantly detract from the overall experience.
- “Story has the main character contemplating the meaning of Christmas and deciding to help (or not) various people.”
- “The story goes on in a slice-of-life fashion, and as situations come up you can choose to help others or not.”
- “The end of the story rates your actions with a score, and then will sum up what you have experienced.”
- “The ending is broken, the translation is poor, and the story, at least without the ending, is uninspired.”
- “The script is full of spelling and grammar errors. Although the game is short (about 30 minutes to finish), it's still a boring and annoying experience due to the load of errors and the shallow story.”
- “The whole game doesn't fit a positive Christmas scenario. It's a poorly written story set in December with a negative vibe throughout, few characters, few locations, few choices, and only three endings.”
music
8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
62%
38%
The game's music is generally unremarkable, consisting of random ambient instrumental tracks with no included or available official soundtrack. Users note a lack of in-game audio controls, forcing players to adjust volume externally, and reported that the DLC's promised additional music option did not function as intended.
- “The music was unremarkable, and there is no soundtrack included or available as a DLC.”
- “The DLC claims to give an additional option for music, but it did not work for me. I found no change in music in the game, and no way to set, change, or enable the DLC music.”
- “There is no control for music and SFX; they are always on at a preset volume you cannot control.”
graphics
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
33%
67%
The graphics are widely criticized as poor and low-quality, with only occasional background artwork that seems sourced from free sites. Overall, the visual presentation is considered one of the game’s weaker aspects.
- “The graphics are awful, really.”
- “Crappy English, crappy storyline, and crappy graphics make a crappy short game.”
humor
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
50%
50%
The humor in the game is polarizing, with some players appreciating its cheesy, bad-movie style comedy, while others find it unfunny and lacking clear purpose.
stability
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game exhibits stability issues, notably freezing during attempts to reach certain endings, which hinders completing the Christmas Tale fully.
- “Trying to get the usual or bad ending freezes the game, preventing me from fully finishing Christmas Tale.”
gameplay
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The gameplay is described as engaging and well-designed, offering a balanced mix of challenge and fun. Players appreciate the smooth mechanics and intuitive controls that enhance the overall experience.
atmosphere
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The atmosphere is mixed, with some backgrounds being poorly designed and detracting from the experience, while occasional more attractive, festive wallpapers add a limited seasonal charm but little overall impact.