Last updated on December 7th, 2025 at 03:20 am
Christmas Stories: The Prince – Entertainment Game Review
Christmas Stories: The Prince is a Entertainment/Puzzle/Adventure game from Big Fish Premium, LLC, first launched in 6th December 2017.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 2,159+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Christmas Stories: The Prince Stand Out
Discover the newest hidden objects mystery game from the TOP SELLING premium games company, Big Fish. With more than 26 million premium game downloads worldwide, Big Fish gives you exciting new mysteries to solve each week!
‘Tis the season to team up with some friends and save Christmas yet again in this spectacular Hidden Object adventure! You’ve been invited to a dazzling holiday wedding, but the festivities are short-lived as an evil sorceress places a curse on the newlyweds and their guests. Can you come to the rescue and break this nasty spell before it’s too late? Find out as you enter a magical world of beautiful puzzles and stunning mini-games in this enchanted story for all to enjoy!
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This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Christmas Stories: The Prince is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 6th December 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Download & Availability
Christmas Stories: The Prince 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:
Wonderful scenery, much of it interactive. Lots to do in each location. Puzzles took some time, but not hard. Hos were list and silhouette, but with some creative elements. Collect morphing wedding guests, and puzzle pieces. You can assemble 3 jigsaw puzzles with your collected pieces. There is a secret room with the 3 helper cats, each cat has 3 tasks for you to complete (repeat hos or mini game), then that cat tells a story about different new years celebrations. This series of games, with their magical scenery, always makes us cheerful! We felt it was a bit shorter than it should have been, real rating 4.5 bumped up to 5 for creativity.
We really enjoyed playing this lovely game. Good story and great variety in scenes and games. Variety too in the difficulty in the games… Some were easier than others. Instructions for the games was minimal and sometimes inadequate to assist your game play, but we were able to muddle through with the Strategy Guide. Overall a great value for enjoyment received.
Wanted to mention that this is not a new release, as is advertised. Good, though.
We have played this every year in December. Un to play with kids too. Art is fabulous, voices clear and amusing. Collectibles are fun – keep an eye on the map to be sure you get all of them.
If its an Elephant Game its going to be awesome and this one doesnt disappoint!, love the puzzle pieces and morphing objects. Always a great story with gorgeous graphics. Best of all, the puzzles are so straight forward but still challenging. The map eliminates frustration in navigating. EG is our only 5star game producer. Great job.
We love this game, its a lot of fun! The storyline is fantastic, and the graphics are stunning. We recommend it to everyone who wants a good hidden object game.
We loved this game! Super fun to play. Great stories and the best of all was the the dancing snowman in the credits.
The programming is so smooth. No strange jumping of objects or glitches. Story, art, music, puzzles, and Christmas spirit are all wonderful. The animal mascots (cats, Fox, bears, etc.) are adorable and not too childish. The snowman is great. Love his stick arms.
Ive been playing Big Fish games for about 3 years now. Ive enjoyed many of them. Most games Ive played have horror, some gruesome, and this game was such a refreshing change from that. Plus we thought the game was the perfect amount of challenge. It was beautiful. Just about perfect.
We started this game and we luv it.we m plying it on our 10 in. Ipad.The objects are so real like,and it was pretty easy.Im retired and want to play a game that is exciting but not so hard.This game is it.
We totally enjoy these types of games and so often they are usually too gruesome to play with our daughter in the room. This was sweet AND fun so we played together.
So nice to have one of the games not be about monsters and gould and ridiculous stuff. This is just fun and still just as challenging.
This game is delightful, peaceful, and fun! We especially love the music! We might even play it again just to listen to the calming music track. Bravo.
Thank you elephant games more PLEASE.
Its an old times Christmas fairy tale in the great traditions of Elephant games. EG at their best . Buy it immediately.
A wonderful illustration of a holiday story. Thank you and have a very Merry Christmas. Key West Jessa.
The story is fun, the games are super fun. Just enough of a challenge. Great fun.
We love this game and replay the older titles multiple times. Hope there is an iOS 11 update for them. We would even pay again.
Elephant brings us yet another gorgeous holiday game! The artwork is stunning, the storyline and imagery are suitable for all ages! Your helper is a fox (adorable) collecting puzzle pieces, morphing objects in every scene, statues in some. There are also lots of background bits like twinkling stars, bells etc. Very family friendly and multiple player profile spots available so this may come in handy for entertaining your cherubs when you need some quiet or you just want some cuteness for yourself. Verdict: Buy and enjoy! P.S.: dont miss the dancing in the credits-HILARIOUS.
This game really makes you smile, with beautiful graphics that we all know and Love from Elephant games. Storyline, as well as hidden object scenes and puzzles are fun and light hearted. Teleporting map is provided – morphing objects, collectible puzzle pieces etc. A must Buy! Truly enjoyable and guaranteed to put you in the Christmas spirit! Thank you Big Fish and the developer for providing us with this gem of a game. Note to Big Fish: Thank you once again for increasing your New Releases to 2 games a week. Hopefully, you will continue to do this. It makes all the difference, and look forward to each New Release. Feels like a real Christmas for us avid gamers. KdBoots. (Happy Gaming everyone!).
Oh, how we love to be swept off our aging feet, to a time long-ago when we were young, carefree, and full of curiosity! This endearing and captivating game has brought us back to those sweet, innocent times, allowing us to vicariously revisit our favorite Christmas memories. This is one of those games in which we do not care about the actual plot because we are completely enamored by the magical holiday spirit. You will meet a cast of diverse and whimsical characters throughout your adventure. Some are non-human, but they can communicate as a human would; for example, we love that piano-like character! The scenery is filled to the brim with the true nature of Christmas, as each location is exquisitely embellished with the same kinds of holiday decorations that fill our home each year. From the vibrant, multi-colored lights, which are strewn across the homes; to the tall Christmas trees, adorned with candy canes and hanging balls; to the loads of scattered presents, wrapped up and topped with bows, this game pleasantly screams, "Merry Christmas!" The amusing background animations, such as bells jingling, help us feel immersed within the environment. The quality of the graphics is adequate, although we do think that the beautiful details could have been sharpened up a bit. The coloration is like a visual feast for the eyes — Christmas lights galore! You can customize your settings. The inventory is labeled and interactive; items require assembly. In custom mode, the teleport map facilitates brisk travel to labeled locations and indicates available actions. It also indicates the scenes in which you can pick up a collectible. Transition between scenes is smooth and quick; no glitches to report. The varied HOSs are thematically rendered to suit the storyline; and they are delightfully engaging, with the inclusion of puzzle-like elements. The puzzles are highly entertaining, and they are integrated into the storyline since some will solve a predicament. The collectibles are fun to discover since they are holiday-oriented; there are multiples of such in some locations, as well as in the close-ups. What else can we say? You just may become overwhelmed with warm and fuzzy tingles spreading all over your body! Don't let the brevity of the free trial deter you from purchasing this game. There are a multitude of tasks to effectuate in every scene. We certainly do suggest that you play the free trial. Who knows? You might find yourself smiling and humming along to the joyful holiday music.
We used to play this game every year at the holidays, but it now is not compatible with a new iOS system. Everything has squares floating around with the graphics in it and you cant tell what youre doing. Please update it.
This is not a new game -we played and bought this same game 12/24/17. Its a good game but nothing tells you where to go next and it takes you awhile to figure out your next move. Thats why we gave it 4 stars.
UPDATE: 12/12/20 For those in the mood for Christmas games, try the brand new game developed and released by Domini Games. Its called Christmas Spirit: Mother Goose. At $2.99 its their present to us! Also they will be porting new games to iOS in the upcoming year, so sign up for the Domini newsletter. Merry Christmas, everyone! Thank you BigFish! This was an adorable little Christmas gift of a game from our friends at Elephant games. The graphics were bright and gorgeous, although they needed a bit more clarity. You could customize settings. There was a marked teleport map to transport you instantaneously between locations; the map also indicated collectibles availability. At each location you must find a plethora: morphing objects, wedding guest statuettes, and puzzle pieces. Inventory was labeled and interactive and there were complex items to assemble. There was much to accomplish at each location. You had an adorable little fox to help you. Although there was no journal tasks were regularly updated. The HO scenes had some variation but nothing too extreme or unusual. We found that the mini-games were mostly rotational and lacked originality. The storyline was cute and easy to follow. However this game was still on the short side even with the bonus adventure. Gameplay was smooth, as is usually the case with Elephant games! We deducted a star for length and the overly simplistic and banal mini-games. However, we did find this Christmas fairy tale magical, as well as enjoyable to play! UPDATE: It looks like we should get another new game on Monday. Izzy has listed a bunch due out, so we can hope the trend will continue. Has anyone noticed that BigFish has added the word Premium to their games? We dont know if this is SIGNIFICANT in any way but as soon as they added that word we only got one game per week. Is it possible that there was some kind of corporate restructuring or takeover by another company? And now, they have possibly sorted things out. Does anyone know? So much for conspiracy theories, lol! It doesnt really matter if they bring out at least two games a week. But we need them to know we appreciate them, so please everybody take some time to tell them! Lynxie wishes all reviewers happy holidays! We also am sending a big shout-out to Dracyy, KimTwilight, Izzyoc, Tiramisu, Catalina, Pixiepuppy and especially to our beloved Snooper! We hope you are doing well and still gaming, our friend.
We really enjoyed this game. Interesting storyline, beautiful graphics and fun puzzles. The only reason we didn't give 5 stars is due to the HOS where some items were so small/distorted, the only way to get past was to just start clicking any and everywhere until we finally hit the target.
This game was entertaining and devoid of death and violence. Thank you for that, BFG! The graphics were lovely. The voice actors could have been better, but we dont usually listen to them so it doesnt matter.
We felt this game was short. But it was a very fun game. We are not one who likes the dark violent games so every time a fairy tale game comes out we can't wait to play. This was one of our favorites.
We get tired of the gruesome items that are in most of BFs games. This one has none of that for a welcome change. A nice clean game, decent story, some fun games and HOPs; mostly worth the purchase if you can get it at a discount. One more thing: the fox could be much cuter and we dont like the way he works.
We love this game! Ive had it for a couple of years now. And we like playing it around the holidays. It had a great storyline, background, and the puzzles were challenging. But this year its all pixelated! This really upset us because its one of our favorites! Please fix this! We really want to play it again.
We like the game, but there are strange white areas that make it hard to see items and play games.
We Purchased this game for a little bit of money but we know why they give you a little fox to work with but its very hard to activate him you are kind of stuck until he works and the bonus game is even worst delete it and reinstalled it and its not better very disappointing if we knew how to get our money back we would but all that being said its a good story and very beautiful and the games are good.
Cutesy and the clues dont make a lot of sense. Im glad we got it on sale.
Not worth the unlock. Story wasnt that interesting. Very juvenile. Only bought because it was on sale and still dont feel worth it.
They are not working on iPhone 8.
We can tap tap tap on the correct item and no response but then after a bit it accepts the tap…. Kinda frustrating but not enough to stop playingyet.
Have just started so will come back later with review. Just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and hope Thanksgiving was great too especially toL/M and rest of gang Darcy, Hoss Kim and rest of new great reviewers.Will be back after finish game miss you all and L/M am getting along great now hope you are too.lots of love andto all Snooper-158.
Dear Developer, this game is showing all the background graphics, there are so many graphics (lines and squares moving around the screen) it is impossible to play the game. Thank you.
Several of the games dont work properly. We deleted this app before we finished.
First time we played game it was great…when we tried to play again this year the game doesnt work. There are floating boxes all over the screen and you cant see the scenes very well. We tried deleting app and reloading same issue. Only happens with this game and one other from this d3veloper.
The game is in polygon mode and everything has a white rectangle around it. Take it down and fix it. Its disrespectful to customers to offer games that are this broken for sale. Im just glad we hadnt payed to open it sight unseen. We made that mistake in the past thinking companies kept up with maintenance. Take them down if you arent going to do that.
This game is unplayable. Graphics are still jacked up. No refund available. Have deleted and reinstalled numerous times with the same shoddy results. Also have bought numerous other games and now when we go to play the games theyre requiring that we pay for them all over again. Done with this foolishness.
We really tried to get this to work. But the first scene had constantly moving boxes and windows, and they never stopped. It was like a hyperactive geometric fireworks display. The boxes covered everything we tried to do. We also could not get the little critter to help with the gate/door. After about 15 minutes, we gave up and deleted the app. Most of the Big Fish games work fabulously, but this one is obviously glitchy. It appears that the game worked several years ago, as per the positive reviews. But recent reviews all say the same thing is broken as we do above. Maybe an Apple update broke it, if the game was not updated? If so, you should remove it from the App Store until its fixed.
Paid for full game. We install it and the picture is all pixelated. We loved it when we could play but since we cant after full purchase we rated 1 star.
Loved this game, but it no longer works on our iPad. The screen is full of rotating "crystals" and can no longer see the pictures on the screen.
Weirdly small and blocked off gameplay.
Its really messed up. Needs an update.
Graphics are all messed up and blocky. Seem big fish games dont update the game when an OS is updated. We have purchased several Bigfish games for the past several years and most are unplayable. This use to be our favorite.
We enjoyed it when we bought it two years ago but it is now pixelated and broken and useless.
We paid for this game a long while back and it stopped working ,the screen looks like its snowing,we havent had any problems with any games but this one.
We cant see items. We are so angry that we paid for this game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.0
- Size: 695.53 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, RU
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
- Developer: Big Fish Premium, LLC
Last updated: 6th December 2017 | Genre: Entertainment, Puzzle | Developer: Big Fish Premium, LLC