DECEMBER PARTY · DECEMBER 1 – 22
The December party, for a company that is not in one room
The end-of-year event is the one everybody remembers and the one that ages worst. A quiz in a Zoom grid is not a party, and a happy hour excludes whoever has a family at six.
- Runs
- December 1 to 22
- Teams start booking
- early November
- 5-10,000 players
- In the browser, no installs
- Priced per event, not per head
Pick the game, the date and the headcount, and the price is on screen. No quote call.
Mission: Save Christmas
- Midnight on Hold
- The Wintervald Hotel Mystery
- +44 more games for this occasion
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THREE FORMATS
One live session, a week of play, or a calendar
- LIVE
Big Game
A host brings everyone into the same story at the same time. The whole company in one session.
70-90 min · live host · 5-10,000 players
For this occasion
75-90 minutes on a Friday afternoon. In 2026, December 11 and 18 go first.
- ASYNC
Marathon
The same story over 1-5 days. People play when their day allows, and the leaderboard closes at the end.
1-5 days · no host · any time zone
For this occasion
A week of play in mid-December, with the leaderboard closing before people leave for the holidays.
- DAILY
Advent Calendar
A short task a day for 4 days to 3 weeks: shared canvases the whole company fills, photo contests and quick solo quizzes.
4 days–3 weeks · 1–3 min a day · up to 50,000 players
See the holiday calendar →For this occasion
Every workday of December up to the party, with the company tree full by the time people log off.
OUR PICKS
Our three picks for December
Office parody, a New Year's Eve countdown and an elegant mystery. Festive without the kitsch.
- Top pick
ABENTEUER · Big Game / Marathon
Mission: Save Christmas
Santas Elfen brauchen Ihre Hilfe — die Werkstatt ist im Chaos
Why it fits
The one we lead with in December. An office parody set in Santa's workshop: accounting, the toy factory, elf HR, logistics. People recognize their own jobs in it.
Inside the game
ABENTEUER · Big Game / Marathon
Midnight on Hold
One minute to midnight, and the clock has stopped
Why it fits
For the last party of the year. The clock stops one minute before midnight, and the whole team works to get it striking again. Four roles that switch every stage, so nobody sits on the sidelines, and it ends with the countdown and fireworks.
Inside the game
MYSTERIEN · Big Game / Marathon
The Wintervald Hotel Mystery
Ein eingeschneites Hotel. Ein verschwundener Gast. Ihr Team ermittelt
Why it fits
For a more buttoned-up audience. A snowed-in hotel and an investigation: elegance over office humour, and snow without Christmas.
Inside the game
ALSO FITS
Also fits December
- ABENTEUER
Stolen Hours
Santas Uhrzeiger gestohlen. Die Zeit steht still. Ihr Team durchquert Welten
Big Game · MarathonDetails ansehen → - ABENTEUEREMPFOHLEN
Office Chaos
Your first day at the most chaotic office in town
Big Game · MarathonDetails ansehen → - ABENTEUEREMPFOHLEN
Bureau of Magical Affairs
Ein geheimes Büro reguliert Magie. Sie sind die Neuzugänge
Big Game · MarathonDetails ansehen → - ABENTEUEREMPFOHLEN
Mission 8-Bit
Ihr Team ist in einer Retro-Spielhalle gefangen
Big Game · MarathonDetails ansehen → - CUSTOM
Eigenes Event gestalten
Erzählen Sie uns Ihre Geschichte. Wir bauen das Spiel.
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What teams ask for
- One event for the whole company, including the people who never come to the office.
- Something to look back on: a recap, a leaderboard, pictures worth putting in Slack.
- Recognition that lands inside the event rather than as a slide deck before it.
What to steer clear of
- Anything after hours. It reads as unpaid work no matter how good it is.
- A party that quietly assumes drinking. Half a distributed team is in a country or a life where it does not apply.
WHEN TO BOOK
Book in October, play in mid-December
December is the busiest window of the year, so the calendar decides more than the budget does.
- 1
October
Lock the date
The second and third weeks of December go first, and the last working Friday is usually gone by mid-November.
- 2
10 business days out
Last call for a customized game
Your org chart as the workshop staff, or your year-end numbers inside Santa's Accounting. Anything custom needs ten business days.
- 3
3 business days out
Last call for a live game
A hosted Big Game off the shelf. Two business days for a Marathon. The limit is the host's calendar, not the build.
- 4
December 7 – 18
Event weeks
Friday afternoons work. Monday and Tuesday afternoons lose to year-end deadlines, and the week of December 21 is mostly out of office.
December events run December 1 to 22, and booking opens in early November. The second and third weeks of December are the first to go, and the last working Friday is usually gone by mid-November.
MAKE IT YOURS
Make it your company's year-end
- $1,000
Your branding
Your logo and colors across the workshop, the intro screens and the leaderboard.
- $2,500
Your people in the game
Your org chart as the workshop staff: your CFO heads Santa's Accounting. Department-level only, if you prefer no names.
- $5,000
Your story
Your year-end numbers as Santa's metrics, so the Accounting stage doubles as the year in review.
Take one, or all three for $7,500. Any customization needs 10 business days.
Coca-Cola HBC
- The brief
- LearnFest runs for the whole company. The closing event had to hold 6,000 people across 28 countries at the same time, on one connection, with no installs.
- What we built
- Two 30-minute virtual journeys back to back, Tokyo then New York, hosted end to end.
- people in one event
- 6,000
- countries
- 28
- journeys, back to back
- 2
- start to finish
- 60-70 min
Citibank
- The brief
- 800 people in a banking operation, on shifts and in branches, who could not all be online at any one hour.
- What we built
- Game Marathon over a single day, branded, about 10 minutes per person, played whenever their shift allowed.
- completed in one day
- 800
- support request in total
- 1
- attendance rate
- 86%
- would recommend
- 93%
Playrix
- The brief
- A global mobile-games studio wanted an event their people would recognise as theirs, not as a vendor's template with a logo dropped on it.
- What we built
- Austin, their own character, rebuilt as a playable NPC: he greets the team, sets the tasks and reacts to what they do.
- participants
- 180
- attendance
- 90%
- custom scenes
- 6
- would recommend
- 95%
Pick the game, the date and the headcount, and the price is on screen. No quote call.
MORE DATES
Other occasions worth planning now
NEW YEAR KICKOFF · JANUARY 6 – FEBRUARY 14
The January kickoff, minus the ninety-minute slide deck
The first all-hands of the year sets the tone for the next eleven months, and most of them are last quarter's review with a new cover slide. The goal is not information, it is that people leave the hour feeling like one company.
HALLOWEEN · OCTOBER 15 – NOVEMBER 1
Halloween team events that are not a costume contest
The one date in the corporate year where a team will forgive you for being strange. Spend it on a story with actual stakes rather than a call where three people wear hats.
Questions we get
- Can we do the year-in-review inside the game?
- Yes. The story tier rewrites the game around your year: your milestones, your people, your inside jokes.
- How many people can join at once?
- One session holds up to ten thousand. Pricing is per event, not per head, so the last hundred people cost nothing extra.
- We need it in two languages. Possible?
- Yes. The games run in sixteen languages, and one event can be hosted for the group in the language most of them think in.
- Does it work for people who do not celebrate Christmas?
- Mission: Save Christmas uses the secular Santa-and-workshop imagery, not religious content, and plays as a save-the-holiday story. If that still does not fit your team, Wintervald Hotel Mystery has the snow and none of the Christmas.
- What does a December event cost?
- Pricing is per event and set by team size, with no per-head fee. A Marathon runs ×1.0 for one day up to ×3.0 for five. Customization is $1,000, $2,500 or $5,000, or all three for $7,500. The calculator shows the full price for your date.