dreamsTop Ten Holiday Games Made in Dreams PS4

It is that time of the year — the winter holidays are upon us once again. Families and friends are decorating Christmas trees, stringing lights, and sweating furiously and nervously over their checkbooks. Luckily for us gamers, there is a game available on PS4 that promises an endless bank of playable games to ease the holiday blues. That game is Dreams. Developed by Media Molecule, Dreams is a user-friendly game engine designed to enable anyone with the ability to turn their game ideas into a reality. Thanks to early access, many users have already created incredible games, models, scenes, and songs using the game’s tools. So grab a heated blanket and a glass of eggnog, here are the top ten holiday games made by users in Dreams.

10. Warmth on a Desolate Mountain Slope — Created by marcilein98 and bigsurf77

Warmth on a Desolate Mountain Slope is a great entrance into the wintry games that you can find in Dreams. You begin the short game in an empty, wooden cabin. A fireplace crackles in the corner and, through the windowpane, you can see snow-covered hills and rocks. Open the cabin door and you are welcomed to a snowy environment on all sides. The title is befitting of the area. The mountainside in which the lonely cabin resides is a cold and lifeless landscape. However, there is a frozen river and lake that you can slide on, and that is pretty neat.

9. Pig Detective Advent Calendar — Created by SdeReu, Lotte_Double, and AndymationB

Pig Detective Advent Calendar is visual nostalgia for anyone who grew up counting the days until Christmas with an advent calendar. Only a few days are available to open, but those days have unique characters and models inside with which you can interact. Each character has a handful of unique phrases that they speak; some of them goofy. For example, Detective Pig, an original character, can be found hiding behind one of the doors. If you press the button prompt that allows him to speak, he says phrases like, “Are you asking me out on a date?” and, “I like cheese.” Interchangeable scenes and classic Christmas music frame the interactivity.

8. An Audio-Visual Peanuts Christmas — Created by brandon-bhoy

While it is not a game, An Audio-Visual Peanuts Christmas is still a delightful walk down memory lane. Charlie and Snoopy stand around the staple of their Christmas special: a sad and barren pine tree no bigger than a branch. The scene is festively active with fallen snow, bright Christmas lights adorning Snoopy’s doghouse, and upbeat music. As a fan of the Charlie Brown Christmas specials, it is a treat to see someone channel that same love into this piece of art.

7. A Nightmare before the Graveyard — Created by Marjerie

The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of my favorite holiday movies. Although I prefer to watch it around Halloween, this game is sure to delight fans of the movie who do not mind a little spooky with their holiday cheer. Enlivened by the film’s well-known soundtrack, you get to explore Halloween Town as Jack Skellington. Jack can light his skull on fire, punch, jump, and interact with familiar citizens from the film. In addition, where in other games you might dodge or roll out of the way of incoming attacks, Jack instead rapidly spider-crawls away. You can see a lot of love and care went into the creation of this particular game.

6. Christmas Mountain — Created by bigdaddy566

This game is more of a short scene that you can explore. It kicks off with your character, who looks to be some kind of blue mouse (or cat?) with a slingshot made of bones, standing atop a snowy mountain. You navigate stones and bridges as thunder and lightning claps in the clouds next to you. Colorful Christmas lights guide you through your quick journey and as you progress, you come across a snowman and a Santa hat. This game is a fun look at what can be achieved if you have an original idea in your head and you want to make it a reality.

5. Santa Dash — Created by Aecert

It is exactly what it sounds like. You control Santa as he runs through the snow, weaving his way around trees and boulders. How many presents can you collect? How far can you make it before your health points drop to zero?

4. A Gingerbread Town — Created by JayKombat

A Gingerbread Town is a nice Christmas environment that you can explore. You are a gingerbread character who skates around the snowy area that includes gingerbread buildings, candy cane lampposts, and park benches made of waffles.

3. Nightmare on Christmas Eve — Created by MrCow

Much like CoD Black Ops’ Zombies, or the popular mode in Gears of War, Nightmare on Christmas Eve is a horde mode shooter. Instead of guns, you sport a tireless right arm with an endless supply of snowballs. The enemies are ruthless and creative. In the beginning, you will encounter snowmen who volley their own balls at you and slide across the wintry terrain to try to pummel you into the ground. Before long, those snowmen are joined by giggling, bomb-carrying elves and nutcrackers who launch rockets at you from afar. See if you can survive the Nightmare on Christmas Eve.

2. Christmas Time — Created by XdsmmatX

In Christmas Time, you find yourself in a cozy room with the fat and jolly man himself. Santa sits slumped in a comfortable armchair by a crackling fireplace, dad napping the night away. The room is covered with Christmas décor, much of which you can interact with. If you interact with certain toys and items scattered around, they will give you dialogue boxes detailing the real-life history of that item. In addition, you can activate various collectible mini-games in the room and a memory match game you can play.

1. Ice Cream World Adventures — Created by RurouniDan

I cannot recommend this game more. Ice Cream World Adventures is a visual delight. You start the game in an over-world, so to speak. Think Mario 64, or Gex 64, where there are portals that take you to the world that you want to visit. The first of those portals take you to, almost literally, a marshmallow world. The environment is a snowy candy land, with environmental structures built using Pop-Tarts, chocolate bars, graham crackers, candy canes, and gumdrops. Navigate your way over chocolate rivers and follow the M&M road as an adorable ice cream cone. The world is sprinkled with, well, sprinkles of various colors that, when collected, appear on your character’s ice cream head. Forget about Santa. Make YOURSELF some cookies and treat yourself to this world of treats. You will be craving some as you play it.