Tiny Stories: Santa Closes

Released Dec 2021

« Santa Closes » is a pint-sized point & click adventure in which you take on the role of an Elf whose sole mission is to save Christmas...but the poor devil will soon find how hard spreading that holiday cheer can be.

88% positive · 122 reviews

Done

All announced content has been released

High confidence

Done

All announced content has been released

High confidence

Where to get it

Free on Steam

Steam Free

Evaluation

Tiny Stories: Santa Closes is a self-described short, pint-sized point-and-click adventure that launched on December 21, 2021. The store description explicitly frames it as a brief, self-contained experience ("cute and short," "ten minutes in a Christmas World"), with no mention of DLC, expansions, season passes, or any planned post-launch content. There are no DLC listings, no developer news posts, and no roadmap of any kind. The game was designed and released as a finished, standalone product, and there is no evidence of any content development activity since launch. This is a complete, compact holiday game that shipped as a finished package.

Evidence

Store description explicitly describes the game as 'cute and short' — a self-contained ~10-minute Christmas adventure with no mention of future content, DLC, or updates

description · Dec 21, 2021 source development ending

high

Short description presents the game as a complete, pint-sized point-and-click adventure with a single defined mission — no indication of ongoing or planned content

store metadata · Dec 21, 2021 source development ending

medium

Media

Details

Developer

Flip It

Publisher

Flip It

Achievements

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Platform

Windows

Controller

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Steam Deck

Playable

Players

Single-player

Adventure Casual Point & Click 2D Cartoon Cartoony Cute Hand-drawn Minimalist Comedy Dark Comedy Dark Humor Funny Mystery Linear

About this game

DARK HUMOR ON A SNOWY BACKGROUND

Let's make one thing very clear, folks, this adventure is cute and short. As cute and short as Santa’s hot pants. Based on an unreasonable amount of puns, this absurdist mini-game also has dark overtones, an oaky aftertaste, and thoroughly complements a cosy winter afternoon spent doing crosswords. « Santa Closes » makes perfect entertainment material for someone looking to spend ten minutes in a Christmas World™ where cheer steers clear of the dear deers.

TO THE RESCUE !

Time is of the essence. Pingu - your best friend who, oddly enough, happens to be a penguin – just finished reading his TV guide. According to these utterly professional sources, Christmas must be saved by 8:00 PM… Hot on the holiday tracks of this mistletoe mystery, our Elf must uncover the squalid truth behind this well-beloved institution. But beware...if anything goes wrong Santa might change his sleighing ways to slaying ways.

I LOVE THE FRESH SMELL OF PINE IN THE MORNING

One thing leads to another, as it so often does, you will have to investigate the murky mysteries of this ho ho-so colorful holiday... in a monochrome world. With Pingu in tow, an emperor penguin who rarely lives up to his title on account of his anxious tendencies, your travels will take you around the block to visit some highly unusual suspects. Don't be the Santa Company's deadwood, be advised by the Touchy Tree ™️ ! Get into a war of words with the Dyslexic Reindeer ™️ ! Give the Gluttonous Yeti ™️ some food for thought!
What will save Christmas? Find out...before Santa closes!