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THE TIME HAS COME FOR THE RETURN OF THE ONE-OFF HOLIDAY SPECIAL

HO-HO-HOME INVASION IS A FREE FESTIVE STEALTH MICRO-GAME

... that we definitely didn't consider calling "Santa Game Solid". Help Santa enter houses, deliver presents, and leave - all without being seen or detected by the automated robots his elves have made to help him train.

“Ho-Ho-Home Invasion is the Christmas stealth game you never knew you needed” - Play Diaries

“If you’re looking for a fun experience to share with your family, this one might be worth a peek.” - COGconnected

“I "lo-lo-love" Ho-Ho-Home Invasion!” - Limmy

ELF-MADE STEALTH TRAINING WAREHOUSE

This year, due to social distancing requirements, Santa can't undertake his normal training. Thankfully, his elves have crafted a fully automated Santa training area in a disused warehouse - with lots of "houses" for Santa to sneak his way through.

Help Santa complete his training ahead of the Christmas period, by sneaking through all five house layouts to deliver presents in record time.

YOU BETTER WATCH OUT

Arrive. Deliver Presents. Leave.

Make your way through fake houses, past fake robot residents, and place some fake presents. Be sure to:

Peek around corners
Tiptoe to be quiet
Avoid training robots
Place presents
Safely escape the house

And most importantly...

Be extra stealthy

TRAINING ROBOTS

Don't Get Caught!

Make sure you avoid:

Watchers - tiptoe past them when their head is buried in a book
Sleepers - quietly place presents in the stockings at the foot of their bed
And Patrollers - wait until their back is turned before making a run for it!

LAUNCH & PRICE

Ho-Ho-Home Invasion launches on Steam and Itch.io on December 15th for FREE. Whitepot Studios is using a bespoke “pay-what-you-liked” model - allowing players to choose their own price on itch.io, and offering non-content DLC on Steam representing ‘tip tiers’ that fans can choose to purchase to support the developers.

INSPIRATION

In this non-canon year of 2020, never has it felt more appropriate to send a Christmas game rather than a Christmas card.

When we asked Twitter what everyone’s favourite festive video game is, the conclusion was that there’s just not that many anymore - sure, there’s board games, and party games, but how many actually festively themed video games exist?

Some had fond memories of a time when festive titles on floppy discs adorned the covers of magazines at Christmas - Commodore Amiga games, with Bullfrog’s Psycho Santa or Christmas Lemmings being the favourites. Honorable mentions also go to Bad Mr. Frosty (the Snowman from ClayFighters who appeared on the SNES game’s cover), and Jazz Jackrabbit’s Christmas Chronicles.

(From Twitter: 1,, 2,, 3,, 4)

“Why oh why, are there not more oddly niche one-off titles that can only be played at a specific time of year?” absolutely no-one asked. Well, wonder no more - the time has come for the return of the one-off Holiday Special.

ABOUT WHITEPOT STUDIOS

Whitepot Studios is an indie game development studio launched in 2016. Whitepot offers work-for-hire development services, as well as creating its own IP across PC, mobile, and console.

Whitepot Studios won the 2019 UK Games Fund for their upcoming multiplayer murder mystery Murder At Malone Manor, as well as being Big Indie Pitch (Cologne) finalists and winning Northern Ireland Game Of The Year for their mobile title, Tubocity.

Contact: vicky@whitepotstudios.com

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