Last updated on November 29th, 2025 at 05:52 pm
Delicious – Christmas Carol – Family Game Review
Delicious – Christmas Carol is a Family/Casual/Entertainment game from Gamehouse LLC, first launched in 20th October 2016.
It’s rated 17+ and currently has 5,762+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Delicious – Christmas Carol Stand Out
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GameHouse presents Delicious, the award-winning game series that combines cooking dishes with a captivating story! In this wonderful Christmas tale, Emily plans a family trip to a cute little cottage for the holidays. Everybody embarks northbound on the Miracle Express, excited for an amazing adventure. However, they soon discover someone else is already living in their cottage… What are you waiting for? Bake a big batch of cookies for Santa, make some eggnog, and settle in with a hot drink to warm up your Christmas spirit!
The first 10 levels are free, with an in-game purchase available to unlock the full game with all locations.
ENJOY THE 14TH SEASON of Delicious
RUN YOUR DINERS and serve food in a variety of kitchens and dining rooms
COMPLETE ALL 61 story levels and 30 extra challenge levels
DASH THROUGH 6 wonderful Christmas locations, and cook many dazzling dishes in exciting time management levels
BECOME A CHEF, master your skills in wonderful restaurants, and catch the cooking fever
COLLECT DIAMONDS to invite the entire family to Paige's school play
ENJOY HIDDEN OBJECT ELEMENTS and see if you can find all mice
BE PART OF A BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS TALE! Can't get enough of the Christmas feeling? Emily's Christmas Carol is one of the most amazing story games online!
USE DELICIOUS STICKERS! Feel the Christmas spirit with amazing stickers based on Delicious – Emily's Christmas Carol! Use the stickers to add more fun, love, and joy to your iMessages. Enjoy chatting!
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This Family game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Delicious – Christmas Carol is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 9th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
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What's new in this version?
- Update of the game SDKs
- Minor bug fixes
Download & Availability
Delicious – Christmas Carol is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We love this game so much and absolutely nothing wrong with it except Paige absolutely grates our gears and the animation on the level where you have to comfort her plays for way too long. Why is the timer going down when shes wailing and being comforted instead of pausing? Other than that this game is a huge comfort to us and its our favorite of all the Delicious games.
Loved this game since we were a kid, glad we get to play it mobile.
HOW DO YOU ADVANCE.. We SHOULD Be able TO MOVE ON WHEN we CHOOSE!How do you advance?.Ridiculous that you have to get all the stars to go to the next level! Help! You should be able to move to the next levels when you choose to.
We really enjoy all the Emily, Primrose Lake and Arcane Arts games! How about a new Angela game.
First of all gamehouse games are the best time management games. We play the Christmas one every holiday season and we just wish youd make more holiday ones~maybe an Emily Halloween one too! Thank you for such fun entertainment.
Always been one of our favorite game series but our only complaint is getting ads on something we already paid for. Thats why we buy the games for no ads.
We would play a few rounds and the game was just crash.
So we usually like emily delicious games , we can tell they are somewhat intended for a younger audience but even still just in the first 5 levels im finding issues. First of all the second gem game your told to get through the day with a breaking tray we finish the level pleased all the customers and served them and it still says try again. Next issue and the one that caused us to write this is ive tried playing the diamond lvl after that one and we get an ad (that is very long like 45 seconds) after we try to leave the ad it crashes the game and we have to watch a new ad basically locking us out of the level. We enjoy the game so far but this is pretty frustrating already two levels we cant complete bc the game is broken ig. We like finishing all levels so this is disappointing for us.
Its the classic Delicious Emily gang with holiday spirit mixed, just perfect!! Even now.
Our mother loved playing this game before she passed. We too enjoy it from time to time. But we enjoyed watching her play never knew our mom was something of gamer in a way. We would always talk while she played or we tried to play. It has been 5 years now we believe since she passed we miss her the memories are still here.
We love these games. Pretty sure we have played every one. But for some reason certain levels have no sound at all and the ads are so repetitive.
We love the game but when you try to go to the levels it keeps saying loading. And takes a long time or it freezes. We have installed the latest version. But it keeps happening. We had to uninstall it because it froze completely.
We hate leaving bad reviews because we would just uninstall but we have been playing Delicious Emily games for years and have never experienced an issue. Im pretty frustrated that there is no sound of our movements or when we choose items to distribute. Sometimes the background music plays but now we hear nothing after the carolers introduction to the second part. No sound or music. Its the holidays and we traditionally play delicious Emily holiday games. We play on our iPad so please fix this.
Emily games have been our favorite for many years, but recently we have become so disgusted with advertisements failing to load and when they do they seem to take forever. And when we finally get to the next level, there is no sound and the game must be reloaded with the whole process starting over again. It can take 10+ minutes just to get to the next 2-3 minute level. We will check back in a few weeks to see if these problems have been fixed. In the meantime, we will look for new games without these annoying delays. Just downloaded this game again. Got to level 8. Ad took 60 seconds and there was no button to mute the sound. When Level 8 finally loaded there was no sound on the game. Reloaded the game and still no sound. IM DONE.
We love all of the Emily games.
You should totally get this game its like a movie, book, and game all in one and you get new items every time you win a level.
We love this game so much. We just wish it continued or maybe come out with another story for Christmas. Ive played this soooo many times.
There is a bug where you cant do level 7 and we love cooking and this game pleas fix it.
We paid the $9.99 for no ads. After paying, we are still seeing ads and sometimes it won't have any ads to display and will not let us play the game. We tried to report the issue through their support link in the game, but the support form won't let you submit any issues because the "Topic" drop down doesn't work. So we are now stuck with a game we can't play because there aren't any advertisments to show, when we shouldn't see ads anyway because we paid for no ads.
Every time we try to open the game it closes. We reinstalled it and did a hard restart but still closes.
We purchased the $10.00 subscription with the 3 trail and no ads today we soon as we start playing we have ads then we just seen we have no trail either.
Im having fun playing this game. However, on level 59 Santa Home (chapter 6) #59. The bonus of this level isnt working properly. The carol singers arent pictured during the level. We cannot pass the bonus without them being on this level.
Every game these people create has been wholesome from what Ive seen , fun, addictive and the colors and animation as well as the story line is great.
Very addictive, missed a game in the process of playing in order, but almost there. We can sit there and finish the game all the way through, but life gets in the way and have to stop lol. We are having issues with the sound, it does go away if we get any type of message or email. We have already tried reloading the game, restarted our phone, etc. It has been quite the struggle.
We love this game very much!! Its cute, fun, and entertaining! Even though Christmas is over, we still play it :).
It is now reading as we did not purchase this game. Our girls are now forced to watch ads. This game was purchased over 2 years ago.
We bought every single Emily Delicious and many other Delicious games. Its such a shame that we rarely have new Delicious and similar games by this company that you can buy the game out right and not have to feed money into the games. Please continue to make these games that people can just buy. Its hard these days just to pay bills. And BTW please give us a new SALLY game.
We downloaded this game at its first release. We still play it every holiday as a sort of tradition for years. We hope they keep the updates going so we can continue.
Love the game! Worth the $9.99 price. Love that we can buy full game after first level. Love the holiday version. How about other holiday.
Can you please bring back the older games so we can put all the Emily games in order please thanks.
We love delicious game all of them that including Food we love so much.
Absolutely LOVE this game its not a hassle at all if you get the package deal for like 10-11 bucks a month!! We work with food, soo we kinda like the whole ordeal of this.. The effort, time and patience was put into this! Keep emm coming please.
Wow we love this game it is easy and the best game ever.
Ive always loved Christmas time and this fits perfectly with Christmas.
please make emily's childhood memories & big surprise & holiday season,,on iphone too not just for ipad.
These games all the ones made by yall are so great.
We love these games . We play them over and over but on this one in particular level 27 of the mini game where you just receive a gem. It will not give us the gem no matter how many times we beat it on the hard level. Please fix this . And keep on with the Emily story we miss her family.
Any chance youll release a game app for the original Emily Christmas game? It was the first one we played and what got us hooked on Delicious games. Would love to play it again.
We loved this game since the first day that we got it but until we got level 34 how do you not expect us to use it twice! Especially if the next person wants the same order it is FRUSTRATING.
We have played almost all of your games and we enjoy them soo much but this one has a nice story and the time line is around christmas and we love that but we dont know whats happening with the game, Im currently in the reindeers farm in the bonus game number 16 and all the sudden while im playing an advertisement pops up (we did not purchase the game) out of nowhere and the first couple of times we skip it but if we dont do that another level starts and its really getting annoying because we can finish that level. We want to give this game three and even two stars but we just really like the theme of the game but please fix your bugs.
We love this game and intend to buy the whole game, but after completing level five, the game said that we needed to purchase level six, so we click on buy, but it just starts loading. We sat there and watched it load for what felt like 30 minutes. We dont know if its a problem with our internet connection or something to do with the app, but am thoroughly disappointed.
We really enjoy all of the games in this series, but this one has been our least favorite. Not only is the story line cheesier, but there are also some technical issues. Twice while playing the challenge levels Ive finished and gotten the diamond, but at the end it says we didnt complete the level and to try again. Its quite frustrating to have to play a level more than once, especially if you actually completed it the first time. Overall this particular game is just okay.
Okay we love this series, but this seemed to go off on a tangent where the characters dont act like themselves. We did not experience the bugs others have mentioned, but the storyline made no sense to us. We feel like we lost them. Perhaps we missed a cut scene that explained it. That being said, the game play was fine.
We loved this game from what we can recall when we first bought it. But, our oh our How times have changed! Let us see if we have this correct…we pay $10 plus tax to unlock a full game. Yet, Im still subjected to watching long ads before AND after every, single level? Got it! Message heard loud and clear. GameHouse games have changed to this format permanently. We have downloaded three games that we have previously purchased, thats $30 plus tax just on those games (not to mention that we have purchased every single genre of GameHouse games as well) and EVERY one of them bombards us with ads or requests to purchase GameHouses monthly subscription or both. Im done. Uninstall, moving on, more money in our pocket, less money for you. We used to feel like you truly cared for your customers, we definitely dont feel that way any longer. We were a huge fan of your games but, we cant support this anymore. Its not like any new games are coming out for the little guys that dont spend $120 per year anyway, despite all of the promises.
We just paid for the full game and we got nothing Im still seeing the commercial ads and we want to know why.
Level 11 has serious bugs. Ive played it three times now and we still dont get any points while playing. Not only that we played a level and completed it when we went to Map it showed that we hadnt played the level whatsoever and we were confused because we had to replay the same level (this has happened three times now. ).
We tried to purchase the full version, but every time shows an error! Could yo7 please check this issue.
One of our all time favorite Emily games. When we feel out of the holiday spirit, we play this game and it brings joy at least for that moment. Thank you. Merry Christmas.
Im love Emily and Im a huge fan. This game is very good but there are some glitches. In chapter 4 we couldnt feed the reindeer water, because it was three buckets, and Emily kept refilling them,but couldnt pick them up. In chapter 5, in the challenge where Paige is helping to clean up, you cannot collect the item in the window. Can you please fix these issues.
Been playing this game off and on for over a year. In fact, played night prior. Updated overnight and now it cant get past opening screen.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 36.10
- Size: 988.92 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: NL, EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, TL, TH, ZH, VI
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Gamehouse LLC
Last updated: 9th October 2025 | Genre: Family, Casual | Developer: Gamehouse LLC