Ring in the 2021 Holiday Season with some of our favorite festive games ready to play now on Tabletop Simulator! From winter wonderlands to Christmas card games to dancing dreidels & so much more; these merry mods are sure to bring much joy & fun for family & friends near and far! So grab a mug of coco and let's go!

About: It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Time to open up the boxes of Christmas decorations, untangle the lights, replace broken bulbs, and decorate the tree. To have a bit of fun, you’ve decided to compete with your fellow decorators to see who can build their sets of lights the fastest. Sift through the bulbs, exchange information, and arrange them in the right order as you trade and build your strands. Ho ho ho!
Players swap, play, trade and draw Christmas Light Bulbs into their own sets of lights in an attempt to be the first to complete two sets. The game also includes additional rules from different designers (Christopher Chung, Chad Elkins, Scot Eaton, Daniel Zayas, Don Riddle, & more!) for 12 bonus games suitable for very young gamers and adults. These bonus games include modified rules for classics like Memory and Old Maid as well as brand new original designs. Holiday fun for the entire family!

Game Info:

• What Makes It Festive: A game of Christmas lights!

• Type: Card Game

• Time To Play: 10-30 minutes

• Number of Players: 2-6 players

• Age: 6+

About: Theme: ice as far as the eye can see: in this post-apocalyptic universe swept by powerful winds, a city resists. Each year the city's guilds send archaeological expeditions to scour the ice of the inlandsis. Their destination: the valley of the ancients where the remains of an ancient civilization would be buried.

Game mechanics: I C E is a tile exploration game combining tactics and strategy. Evolving on 5 superimposed levels, the players embody a guild by moving an expedition leader. Thanks to a clever archaeologist movement system, players discover and take tiles containing artefacts and other vestiges of the past. By displaying these different types of artifacts and returning them to the city, Expedition Leaders validate valuable objectives that allow them to increase their Prestige Points.

Originality: The gameplay of I C E integrates the notion of burial specific to archaeological sites. The different layers of tiles act as a game board and allow you to perform effects or obtain artefacts. The game ends when a tile from the last layer is fully uncovered, this will indicate a game variant for the next game.

Game Info:

• What Makes It Festive: A frigid, icy game perfect for the first month of Winter!

• Type: Euroworker placement game, with tactical elements

• Time To Play: 90 mins

• Number of Players: 1-5 Players

• Age: 12+

About: “The Hebrew word for dreidel is sevivon, which, as in Yiddish, means “to turn around.” Dreidels have four Hebrew letters on them, and they stand for the saying, Nes gadol haya sham, meaning A great miracle occurred there. In Israel, instead of the fourth letter shin, there is a peh, which means the saying is Nes gadol haya po — A great miracle occurred here. Playing with the dreidel is a traditional Hanukkah game played in Jewish homes all over the world, and rules may vary.” - My Jewish Learning. Head over to MyJewishLearning.com to get a full breakdown of the set-up and rules!

CR4YCR4Y’s mod brings this Hanukkah tradition into the digital world so you can play with friends and family near and far! This mod contains: A Dreidel, Two bottomless bags of Hanukkah Gelt, & Enough holiday spirit to defeat an ancient Greek army. The Dreidel is scripted and will align to a random rotation and spin when dropped. The Dreidel may be tinted in game. This works best with light, bright, or pastel colors. Rules are included in the Notebook. There is also a rule reference and Yiddish Dictionary on the side of the screen.

About: Winter is an 18 card and 18 token game divided in two phases: freezing and thawing. First, each player will help to freeze the lake while falling flakes of their color. When all the cards have been placed, the thaw starts and you will have to get your flakes to survive while your opponent's flakes melt. How much snow will be at the end of winter?

Game Info:

• What Makes It Festive: A beautiful game of a winter wonderland!

• Type: Strategy card games

• Time To Play: 10-20 mins

• Number of Players: 1-2 players

• Age: 8+

About: In Vinyl: Holiday Edition, players will work towards building Christmas trees out of albums. Each album features a sub-genre (Classical, Traditional, and Contemporary), one of four decades (the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s), one of five spirits (Joy, Love, Peace, Hope, and Faith). These album trees are being built by the players to your left and right in the true holiday spirit. Some of the points you gain are entirely in your control with the matches you make with previously played albums. Other points come from the combined efforts of you and the players to your left and right. To further increase the scoring opportunities, each player can sacrifice their hand size to complete attributes printed on each album’s gift tags. Vinyl: Holiday Edition will be a game that you will want to play all year round.

Game Info:

• What Makes It Festive: A game about building a Christmas tree out of vinyl albums!

• Type: Musical card game

• Time To Play: 30 – 45 mins

• Number of Players: 2 to 4 players

• Age: 12+

About: Distilled is a highly thematic strategy card game about crafting spirits in a distillery, with resource management, push-your-luck, and tableau building elements. In the game, you have inherited an abandoned distillery from a distant relative, and are now tasked with bringing your family’s business back to its former glory! Create the world’s most renowned spirits by acquiring ingredients, recipes, and upgrades. Choose whether to age your spirits to enhance their flavor, or immediately bottle them to sell it for quick profit. Whoever has the most spirit points at the end of the game earns the title of Master Distiller.

Purchase new ingredients and invest in upgrades to your distillery, all while distilling a new spirit and sending it to the warehouse. Once in the warehouse, age your spirit to enhance its flavor and bottle it to sell it for major profits! Achieve the title of Master Distiller by having the most spirit points at the end of the game. Points are obtained by distilling and selling spirits, which results in the creation of Unique Spirits, such as aged whisky (or whiskey!), gin, or even moonshine!

Game Info:

• What Makes It Festive: Holiday libations for Christmas cheer to ringing in the New Year!

• Type: Resource Management, Push-your-luck, and Tableau Building

• Time To Play: ~30 mins per player

• Number of Players: 1-5 players

• Age: 14+

About: Yeti Trek is a quick, strategic game for 2 players. Try to be the first yeti to reach the summit to win! Combines elements of Grid Movement, Rondel, and I Cut, You Choose! To start, set up the 4 Mountain Range Tiles and place the Summit Tile at the end. Choose one player to be the 1st Yeti and then you're ready to start the first round. -Game Crafter Page

Game Info:

• What Makes It Festive: Play as the winter boogyman in a snowy adventure!

• Type: A quick, strategic game

• Time To Play: 20-30 mins

• Number of Players: 2 player game

• Age: 12+

About: Psyrek’s mod. An 18-hole hand-crafted course in celebration of Christmas. Record your scores on your scorecards and see if you can beat your previous attempts or your friend’s score.

Game Info:

• What Makes It Festive: A completely Christmas game of tabletop golf!

• Type: Tabletop golf

• Number of Players: 1-4+

About: A unique and customizable game of abstract strategy. Relive an ancient tale and lead your people home before they’re lost to the blizzard. 12 maps are included, with millions more to discover.

The goal is to lead 3 of your pieces home before your rival. Players take turns sliding 1 of their pieces across the board. There are no captures or jumps, but players' pieces will keep sliding on open tiles if they move in a direction until they would run into something. When you lead a piece home, that's one less piece on the board to block your rival. Every piece on the board may help or halt your progress.

While Nersha has several board layouts that ship with the game, players can decide to change the board or the number of pieces to play with, among other aspects. There are also seven different tile types that can add more complexity to mapmaking. This game is designed to bridge between casual or abstract games you learn as a kid with daunting games like chess, bringing together all playstyles.- BGG Description

Game Info:

• What Makes It Festive: Surviving in a winter, whirlwind blizzard!

• Type: A customizable game of abstract strategy

• Time To Play: 10- 25 mins

• Number of Players: 2 players

• Age: 12+

About: You've brought home a delectably devious box of chocolates. Upon opening, you discover a note!

"Thank you for choosing us for your chocolate eating journey! Enjoy our classic dark, milk, and white chocolates along with our new crimson chocolates, made from a mixture of rose petals and cocoa beans. Our chocolate boxes are known for being delectably devious, which is why you’ll find our chocolates individually wrapped and indistinguishable.

We’re positive you’ll want to get your favorites before anyone else does. For those with more adventurous palates, please enjoy the chocolate-covered vegetables also included. " BitterSweet is a fast, two player game with elements of drafting, push-your-luck, and memory. Players compete to gather their favorites chocolates while avoiding those they might find unappetizing. Each round your preferences change, altering the dynamics of individual cards and what you want most!- BGG Description

Game Info:

• What Makes It Festive: Delicious & delectable treats for the holidays!

• Type: Drafting, push-your-luck, and memory game

• Time To Play: 20-40 mins

• Number of Players: 2-4 players

• Age: 10+ 

What are your favorite festive games to play around the holidays? Comment below and let us know!