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Xmas Apocalypse

Xmas Apocalypse

It's Christmas Eve during the Zombie Apocalypse and Santa has to gun down hordes of the undead or Christmas is ruined! Level up your firearms with upgrades from the Christmas skill tree and find the most destructive combinations. A festive horde-survival third-person shooter with roguelite elements.

Released Dec 15, 2022 Developer gypynkt Platforms Windows Action RoguelikeShooterBullet HellShoot 'Em UpRogue-lite
View on Steam ↗ $6.99 (US · as of 2026-05-15)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.

75.2%positive105 reviews
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Weirdly good game, got for dirt cheat off a key site”

— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Fun game to play in short bursts on the Steam Deck.”

— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2022-12 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.

12all-time peak
0 2 5 4 avg · Dec 2022

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.

56achievements
7.6%median completion
1.3%rarest: Massacre
71.4% of players 52.1% of players 30.8% of players 30.6% of players 27.8% of players 18.4% of players 17.8% of players 16.6% of players 14.3% of players 14.3% of players 13.7% of players 13.7% of players 13.6% of players 13.2% of players 12.5% of players 12.2% of players 11.6% of players 11.5% of players 11.3% of players 11.3% of players 10.7% of players 10.3% of players 10.0% of players 10.0% of players 9.9% of players 9.3% of players 8.1% of players 7.8% of players 7.6% of players 7.5% of players 7.3% of players 7.1% of players 6.9% of players 6.8% of players 6.8% of players 6.7% of players 6.2% of players 5.8% of players 5.7% of players 5.7% of players 5.5% of players 5.2% of players 5.2% of players 4.8% of players 4.8% of players 4.6% of players 4.4% of players 3.9% of players 3.4% of players 3.4% of players 3.4% of players 3.1% of players 3.0% of players 2.7% of players 2.0% of players 1.3% of players 71.4% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
71.4%Merry Christmas — Hidden achievement
52.1%One down, all the others to go — Unlock your first upgrade from the skill tree
30.8%Breaking the ice! — Break through the circle of snowmen
Rarest badges of honor
1.3%Massacre — Kill 100,000 enemies overall
2.0%Spin to Win — Max out skill card: Tinsel Tornado
2.7%Duck Tales — Collect 25 ducks

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jul 13, 2026
Bugfix 1.1.9

Ho ho ho? It was brought to my attention that one of the achievements didn't work. Why are any of you playing this game in summer? What's going on? Nevertheless, it was a quick fix and I also handled

Mar 12, 2026
Update 1.1.8

I want to start this patch note with an honest status update regarding the content update. On Christmas I announced that a new map would be coming very soon™ . I originally gave myself another month a

Dec 24, 2025
The 2025 Update is coming... soon.

Merry Christmas everyone! In the discussion forums I have already mentioned that this year's update was in the works and the game has not been abandoned yet. I had intended to drop the update before t

Dec 13, 2024
Bugfix 1.1.7

Ho ho ho. This one is rather short, but I wanted to push it live before I'm off over the weekend, so all of you can try to get this one. Fixed "That's how I roll" achievement reconnected to Steam API

Dec 10, 2024
Emergency Fix 1.1.6

The last build had a small hiccup that caused the game to freeze when upgrading for the second time when no gamepad was connected. This issue has now been resolved. Fixed Added a check to verify if a

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.

GenresAction, Adventure, Casual, RPG
Player tagsAction Roguelike · Shooter · Bullet Hell · Shoot 'Em Up · Rogue-lite · Third-Person Shooter · Stylized · RPG · Action RPG · Post-apocalyptic · 3D · Action (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America *
ControllerFull support
Achievements56
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: 10