--- title: Christmas Holiday Shopper Simulator Game: Knock Over Santas description: Tis the season! canonical: https://time.com/3620117/christmas-shopper-simulator-game/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-05T16:13:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:15:03.219Z og:title: Get In the Christmas Spirit By Knocking Over Inflatable Santas in This Holiday Shopping Game og:description: Tis the season! og:url: https://time.com/3620117/christmas-shopper-simulator-game/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcf490e45ad1bdc96/69876cf8524fc00796deb334/screen-shot-2014-12-05-at-10-45-18-am.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-12-05 at 10.45.18 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Get In the Christmas Spirit By Knocking Over Inflatable Santas in This Holiday Shopping Game twitter:description: Tis the season! twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcf490e45ad1bdc96/69876cf8524fc00796deb334/screen-shot-2014-12-05-at-10-45-18-am.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Get In the Christmas Spirit by Knocking Over Some Inflatable Santas by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Dec 5, 2014 4:13 PM UTC  by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Dec 5, 2014 4:13 PM UTC “Prepare to be mildly thrilled and as excited as is reasonable to expect…” So reads the preamble for the most lukewarm video game of the holiday season: [The Christmas Shopper Simulator](http://www.game.co.uk/en/christmas-shopper-simulator-322833). In case navigating through the crowded aisles of a mall in the weeks before Christmas isn’t enough, you can now relive the experience on your computer screen! But don’t let video retailer GAME, which created the simulator, undersell it with a lackluster description. The interactive game has some serious perks. Rather than taking out your holiday anxiety out on real-life fellow shoppers (don’t get a criminal record for Christmas!) you can [unleash your rage on fake shoppers and inflatable Santas in the game.](http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2014/12/05/christmas-shopper-simulator-f-yeah/) The only thing more stressful than an impending zombie invasion is holiday shopping — so it makes sense that there are video games simulating both daunting events. GAME previously released a [Goat Simulator game](http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/09/17/goat-simulator-bizarre-hilarious-indie-video-game-now-android-ios/), in case you’re looking for another way to kill time during the holiday season. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3620117/christmas-shopper-simulator-game/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3620117/christmas-shopper-simulator-game/"},"headline":"Get In the Christmas Spirit by Knocking Over Some Inflatable Santas","datePublished":"2014-12-05T16:13:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:15:03.219Z","description":"Tis the season!","url":"https://time.com/3620117/christmas-shopper-simulator-game/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","viral","Holidays"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcf490e45ad1bdc96/69876cf8524fc00796deb334/screen-shot-2014-12-05-at-10-45-18-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcf490e45ad1bdc96/69876cf8524fc00796deb334/screen-shot-2014-12-05-at-10-45-18-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-12-05 at 10.45.18 AM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3620117/christmas-shopper-simulator-game/","name":"Get In the Christmas Spirit by Knocking Over Some Inflatable Santas"}}]}] ```