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Christmas Night Shift Survival – Strategy Game Review
Christmas Night Shift Survival is a Strategy/Action game from PHB Media Ltd, first launched in 1st December 2015.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 292+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Christmas Night Shift Survival Stand Out
Can you survive working the night shift at the asylum during Christmas?
Christmas has never been so terrifying!!!
It's Christmas at the Ravenhurst Mental Asylum – and you're back for another week of work!
'Christmas Night Shift' features night shifts of terror during the Christmas holidays!
Welcome back to your job as nightwatchman at the Ravenhurst Mental Asylum. From your security office you must keep watch on the festive asylum patients throughout the Christmas holidays – and make sure that they don't get into your room!
Features:
- An interactive map console where you can open and close doors around the asylum.
- Patient tracker devices allowing you to monitor the patients movements on your map console.
- Security cameras where you can watch the patients walking around the asylum.
- A warning alarm in your office which will alert you when a patient is approaching.
- A faulty office security door… use it wisely, and only when you really need to!
Protect yourself from these four terrifying festive patients:
Santa Claus:
This guy comes in every Christmas without fail! This year he was found stuck headfirst down a chimney… they say he was foaming at the mouth like a wild animal!
The Christmas Elf:
Wherever Santa Claus goes you can guarantee his little friend won't be far behind! But don't be fooled by the cute green outfit and pointy hat – he's a vicious little creature!
The Snowman:
He may look distinguished with his top hat and carrot nose – but Snowmen are never friendly!
Rudolph – The Beast of the North Pole:
Don't let the shiny red nose fool you – there's nothing christmassy about this beast!
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Christmas Night Shift Survival is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 12th December 2022
Recent improvements include:
Game engine update.
Download & Availability
Christmas Night Shift Survival is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Christmas Night Shift Survival on App Store
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 loved playing this game. Specifically the other versions. It was one of our childhood favorites. Now that asylum 1, 2, and 3 are gone we were wondering why they left? Please let us know what happened to the other games because we really miss them. And if they are gonna come back please tell us when they are coming back. We really liked the other versions of this game and Im really missing them.
Even though night 3 is impossible this game is overall the BEST we love the backstory and how there are different characters from like horror movies thats the best part of it. So yea Im in love with this take and we cant stop playing it.
Bro this was literally our childhood. We had it on our kindle fire tablet.
BRING YOUR GAMES FROM THE PLAY STORE TO HERE!!!!!!!! We now have a iPhone ditching our android and we want to play your old game.
We love this game so much since it was our childhood game. Please dont make it cost money or get rid of it. It is a masterpiece! It is a really well made game and the closest thing to five nights at Freddys you can get for free. We love this game so much.
All the asylums Ive played are really good. Asylum 1 Asylum 2 the Christmas one and zombie night shift please release the first 2 back on Apple Store.
We love the five nights at the asylum franchise but we dont know where Asylum Night Shift 1 2 3 or zombie night shift is. Can you please tell us where the other asylum night shift games are? If you could. We appreciate it.
We miss this game so much from our childhood but where are the other versions? We cant find them and we really miss them the only version here is the chrismas so if your reading this please tell us where the other versions are.
So when we go on night five, every monster just goes out. Then when we lose the tracker connection, we just go to a door and just see a elf staring at us. So we close the door and after like 10 seconds a snowman just kills us. And AFTER LIKE 250 tries we won it.
So when we go on night five, every monster just goes out. Then when we lose the tracker connection, we just go to a door and just see a elf staring at us. So we close the door and after like 10 seconds a snowman just kills us. Because of that STUPID DOOR! And AFTER LIKE 250 tries we won it. Dang.
This game got our attention when we wanted a fnaf fan game. This game has more effort than most the games Ive seen made by you guys but it needs something. Something just feels a bit odd and something is just needed.
Level three is actually impossible. Try it Im telling you is impossible.
The game is overall OK but we would suggest fixing to jump scares and also when when you're about to get jump scared you should at least be able to close the door or it should be able to recharge while you're about to get jump scared so you could be able to bypass it at least am we are still actually to be exact we are still stuck on our five we haven't yet to beat it so yeah 000 and also one more thing what happened to the asylum the other games that are stinky elf made one last thing we think they should at least have the tracking at least a little longer than how it normally is because it lasts it actually like last for like 10 seconds and then it's gone and then you have to and then and then the alarm is really bad for like night four and five and three we think so um yeah and one more thing we don't know if this is actually a thing but you should be able to skip the call because every like every game we played there's normally an ad or two and then we start the night and then hit the phone rings or the walkie-talkie whatever you wanna call it and then we are then he starts talking but if you've played the night a lot and you died a lot you're gonna get tired of the call we don't know if this is staying at this is the thing we don't know if you can even do it but we wish there was a skip button that was it hopefully they make the game better it's been it's been a while so make the game better hopefully the devs read this so yeah.
It is a great game and is very creepy o wish we had asylum night shift 2 and 3 back. :(.
What happened to the second game to this we k ow there was a dog except of a alarm and you have to crank and lever to power you cameras and everything we want that game we want the good old days please bring it back.
This was a strange and tough experience, but otherwise the best fanf clone on the App Store.
Just stay at your door for the entire night and none of them will come. Never move away from your door. Try it out if you want to beat the game without spending money. We guarantee itll work.
On five we always have to leave the game when it turns off the power in the game and when the patients come please change it because it is bad on night 5 and its 2021 still nothing changed.
Im on night three and we can get all the way to 3 AM but nothing past that its like theyre just standing there at the door waiting for us and when we go to the door boom theyre there we thought night 2 was impossible but we finally beat it so thats what we think of night three.
Im in might 4 and we just cant beat it it isnt hard its just one comes after the other, we would make it where they cant go to your door after another one comes to your door, also we would make the map a little bit bigger and maybe add more people, we know your not big developers but still if you could try to make the game better it would make you more money and make the game better, but we like the way the game is set up its fun and got a good back story, but we would definitely add more detail, it is a really fun game but just if you good add more stuff and fix the ais and maybe even make the graffics better you would make more money.
The game is honestly cool but oh our god the 3rd night feels impossible to us cause one of the patients stand in our door and we close the door and when the door opens up they are gone but then in just 2 seconds another one of the patients either Santa or the elf stands at our door and we cant do anything because the button to close the door is still regenerating and that happens to every time we try to beat it. Overall the game is cool but we ask you can please just fix everything we explained.
Its a good game we mean we have the actual fanf game we just wanted to try it out it good but can you add this thing where it tells ur power than maybe Ill give a 5 star.
All we ask is that you make you jump scares scarier and add a scream in your scare. Over all it is a great hard game.
So we played this game we found it and we decided to play it it was just like fnaf so we thought it would be good we made the past night one and two but we had some trouble on the third night but we managed to break the game by when they came by our office they wouldnt go near our door and attack us we managed to break the game for nights 3, 4 and five and yeah we dont know how we did it but we did it yeah managed to beat the game :).
Too bad the door takes five hours to recharge it was 5 Am and the elf came so we were spamming the button and it was still flashing when we closed it on Santa like 2 mins ago.
What ever happened to the asylum game where you have to survive five nights? Mr. Giggles, little Alice and more… Can we have it back please.
We like the game but we really dont like how it is October 30th and there is still a CHRISTMAS update like bro update your game.
Was at the store when sainta see us we say oh ya ya that did and he come and he slap our poot and we scrum and then we run shdnbehrh dot home a s eke he wiaiting at the window.
Us when we saw this game: what is that? Oh our god, what is that.
We tried to stay at the door and it did not work.
We like this game but it could be harder. Controls a little wonky but good game after all.
It is the worst fan game we have ever played we had zero fear while playing it and dont get us started in the jump scares the sound was so lame this spins so bad.
Also the part 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 are so hard you run out of energy so fast then a monster comes then your dead.
It is a good game but it is just hard once you get to night four you just always get jump scared every 2 min.
We love this game and its super scary and all but the elf comes right after Santa does and its not our fault because the dang door wont charge in time and the jump scares are pretty weak but the door jump scares you do not need to fix because it scared our socks off and we didnt have our socks on.
This game is great we just want one thing something to knock out Santa.
If Santas outside your office can there be some sort of taser that knocks him out from for one hour in the game thanks.
These characters will be fun and are perfect despite all the Christmas spirit and horror characters not being scary at all. We just want you to add Jack Skeleton and Krampus.
It is to easy we completed it in 20-30 minutes and we only got jumpscared once. We also had lots of fun.
After learning how they usually move, we were able to beat night 3 and 4, the problem is that night 5 is basically impossible for free to play players. The alarm dies off the first time you use it and we have the same problem as night 3, they literally just circle us.
This is a good horror game for Christmas its the best.
We like this game but there are problems to beat night3 4 and 5 u have to be lucky and they always surround u but still this game is fun and so this get 3 stars.
So you know that there is a button to let you know where the enemy is right? Well you seem to only get a one time use with it every night, and we hope the devs of this game can add something into it, to fix that.
Wayyyyyy to hard we are going to Harvard but we still can not figure this out buttttt still fun.
Good but we dont like it because its not the full version you have to pay for the full version theres only one night.
Games garbage Graphics good you like this reviews can make you sad but your games graphics are awesome but the game jump scares And all the other things make them more scary what is this supposed to be a childs game no its not its supposed to be scary game but will youre making not scary at all your other one stick us in survival 2 what kind of good we just had one small problem read the review and dont get mad our spelling is not good because Im using the voice thing so it was no spaces in some of the words then Im sorry but your game is goodIn a way but the whole thing of the game what kind of name is Drake to basic name thats what it is think of something more unique like something like Dave or something for five nights at Freddys not really but Kinda just make a better game nobody nobodys gonna want this game if youre make us garbage and basically thats kind of what youre doing Garbage please make the game better and make some other game like five days at something kind a like tattletale have you ever watch somebody play tattletale if you havent you should watch FG TV also we have a YouTube channel go check it out its called Nando and Brandon show make sure you subscribe to the channel to make a better game like stick us in survival the first one that one is garbage we cant click any buttons whenever we go to church the battery we cant go back out to likes to lay on our phone.
We hate this game and all the other asylum game there just the same dum stupid game but with different characters dont install we dont recommend delete now.
They copied five nights at Freddys.
After playing night 1 we thought it wouldnt be hard.we were wrong on night 2 the elf comes you close the door and u think ur ok but then Santa comes being a horrible human and you lose. This has happened about 3 times for us.if you were able to beat the stage please help!:(.
Good but Im still on night 3 its really hard we tried so many times one time we were so close and we got killed! And they should have it so when the snowman,Santa,elf come you should have to wait we seriously am annoyed.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3
- Size: 72.90 MB
- iOS: 12.1 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Horror/Fear Themes, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: PHB Media Ltd
Last updated: 12th December 2022 | Genre: Strategy, Action | Developer: PHB Media Ltd