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Toyeater

A seasonal visual horror story! The night before Christmas, and you're tiny, trapped by a giant, malicious, man-eating elf. It's a race against time to find a path out of her workshop before she devours you all. In this illustrated, part animated narrative puzzle, your choices decide your survival.

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RB Ashton
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RB Ashton
Release
December 11, 2025
233 days ago
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About the Game

You wake in the dark, surrounded by strange nutcracker soldiers and princess ballerinas… And what’s this? You’re dressed the same.

It's the night before Christmas and you’ve been kidnapped. You’re in a box. And you’re either very small, or the elf that captured you is very, very big.

Your mad giant captor is coming to eat you, one by one, as she prepares for Christmas Day…

Toyeater is a visual novel survival game where your choices will ensure whether you live or die.

Designed like an escape room, you can move freely around the room and must uncover clues and items to progress. But it's a race against time, with each decision bringing the monstrous elf closer to returning, along with your possible demise. You need to move carefully and plot your course if you're going to survive...

Featuring:

  • Over 30 mini animations

  • Over 400 HD images

  • Over 24,000 words of narrative and dialogue text

  • A challenging puzzle with a lot of room for exploration

  • A crazed giant elf and a few surprises to boot

  • Discoverable telescope for bonus close-ups!

  • Achievements, name and gender options (play as male or female)

  • Many, many paths to doom!

If you want to make it through this Christmas, you're going to have do a lot more than stay off the naughty list.

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