Santy is Home

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It's Christmas morning. Your daughter is gone. Santy wants a present.

Platforms: Browser, PC
Stores: itch.io
Price: Pay what you want
Rated: 4.4 out of 5 on itch.io (221 ratings)
Length: one short sitting
Players: 1
Controls: Keyboard and mouse, first person; F to drop what you carry
Made by: kulu

What frightens On Christmas morning your daughter's knock turns out to be a note: she is gone, and someone called Santy wants a present before he gives her back. You search your dark house for what the note asks, while a grinning, red-hatted thing with glowing eyes comes calling; players count several jumpscares.
Content: jumpscares.

Santy is Home is a short, free Christmas horror game by kulu. On Christmas morning your daughter has vanished, and a note says Santy will only bring her back if you prepare him a present; you search your dark house in first person and follow the note, with jumpscares and more than one ending. It plays in the browser.

About Santy is Home

Santy is Home is a small Christmas horror game by the itch.io maker kulu, made in Unity and finished, as the maker puts it, just in time for Christmas. It is free to play in the browser or download for Windows.

It is Christmas day. Early in the morning your daughter knocks on your door, or so it seems. When you go to check, she is not there. There is a note instead. Who is Santy, and why does he need a present to give your daughter back? The game's own advice is to just do what the note says. What could possibly go wrong?

You walk your house in first person: the living room with its tree and string lights, the kitchen, your bedroom and Zoey's room with her name on the door. You find and carry what the note asks for, a box of cookie mix among it, and get ready for the visitor. Santy himself is a red-hatted figure with a white beard, a wide toothy grin and glowing yellow eyes, and players say the jumpscares got them every time. There is more than one ending to find.

It is short and played in one sitting. The web build takes a while to load the first time, and the maker recommends the download. It suits players who want a seasonal scare, like Christmas Massacre or Crimson Snow, in a free browser game.

How to play Santy is Home

Open the game's itch.io page and press Run game, or download the Windows version for faster loading.
Read the note you find on Christmas morning.
Search your house in first person for what the note asks you to prepare.
Pick items up and press F to drop them where they are needed.
Wait for Santy, and play again to find the other endings.