Thank you for this massive giveaway, paladin181. I'm tossing my hat in the ring for the following.

7 Days to Die
Call of Duty: WWII
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
Spyro: Reignited Trilogy
PLANET ALPHA
Squad
The Culling
Alpha Protocol
Cultist Simulator
Quantum Break

I have a story I remembered from when I was a kid. When I was about 10, I went to Toys R Us with my parents for Christmas presents, but we didn't have much money. I went into the lego sets aisle and a woman with her own kid was there. My parents told me I could get 2 lego sets under 10 dollars, but I overheard the other kid there say he wanted a 5 dollar set but his mom said she couldn't afford it. I went up to the other kid and told him he could have that set and my parents would buy it for him. It was actually a pretty cool set, I remembered it was one of the space sets, a space rover, so I got the same one. I just remember he was super happy for that little gesture I made, and honestly, that made me happier than another lego set ever could have.

Damn that list is gonna bring joy to a lot of people. I'm for The Phantom Pain.

Not in this time but thumbs up for this really generous giveaway!

This is really cool and super nice of you.

Games-

Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Late Shift
Sid Meier's Civilization V
Sonic Mania

I wish i could share a more exciting story, but every year I spend it with my girlfriend is always special to me, even if the year is particularly tough, we know we got each other's back and keep pushing each other to move forward. Spending that time with her is precious to me, and I enjoy every moment.

hi paladin and all

thanks for sharing the plunder ;)

I'm in for

BATTLETECH (with Flashpoint and Shadow Hawk Pack)

Wizard of Legend

Freedom Force
Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich

Cities: Skylines + After Dark DLC

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one christmas I fondly remember is the first christmas with my wife in our new flat
we were still students and bought a small christmas tree for us (since both of our parents already had big ones and we visited them for the holidays)
we decorated it together and her 15 year old cat got comfy underneath it ... just peaceful and happy times (which we still enjoy together - but the last few weeks were rather stressful with work for both of us)

also today the first snow of the season fell in my area :D

I hope y'all have happy holidays !

Thank you so much for the giveaway. I'm in for:

Crash Bandicoot N. Insane trilogy
Quantum Break
Yakuza 0

That's a lot of games :O

I'm going to try for a few of them.

1. Furi
2. Immortal Redneck
3. RUINER
4. Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus

No real order of preference. Thanks for the extremely generous giveaway.

Regarding the story, I will put it slightly differently...

When I was little, I used to believe that some supernatural entity was delivering presents on December 24th. But one Christmas, I remember accidentally seeing my grandpa through a slit in a door as he was preparing the gifts. That was the moment I realized that they are just bought by family members to make others happy. From that moment on, I viewed every Christmas completely differently and made me appreciate them a lot more. I don't remember the exact age but I'd guess it was when I was about 8 years old. After that, I also pretended for a few years like I wasn't aware of it. Why? No idea :P

Thank you paladin181 for a VERY generous giveaway! I would like to be in for the following games;

Bear With Me
The Darkside Detective
Old Man's Journey

Good luck to all and I hope everyone enjoys the holidays.

Amazing giveaway - thanks very much paladin !
Here is my short list :

STEAM :

Alpha Protocol
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus

Thanks a ton for another exceptionally generous giveaway paladin181. I'd like to be in for:

11-11 Memories Retold
A Short Hike
Northgard
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Slay the Spire
Wandersong
Yakuza 0
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
The Journey Down: Chapter Three

I'd like to be in for the following games:
American Truck Simulator
Cities: Skylines + After Dark DLC
Cultist Simulator
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
The Journey Down: Chapter Three
Mafia III
Prison Architect
Slay the Spire
Wandersong
Yakuza 0

As for a charitable Christmas story, I don't really celebrate Christmas, so it'll have to be a story about a charity :D.
Years ago when visiting New York with my family, I remember the Lion King musical was newly big on Broadway, and I kept harassing my family to go and see it. They couldn't book any ticket, unfortunately, so we ended up going and trying to buy them directly, but it was all sold out. A short time before one of the showings, however, this random stranger lady took pity(?) on me, and having a ticket as part of some charity (I still don't quite get what the situation was, maybe someone can explain it), gave it to me, along with a card of the charity. There was only 1 ticket, so only I got to go while my family explored New York and ate pizza or whatever, but I really enjoyed it (a close second to my favourite Lion King related bit of media).
I still have the business card of the charity, and donated a little to it over the years (maybe that was their end goal?), but I think it is defunct now, unfortunately.

So there's my charitable story.

Well, it wasn't thew intention, but I knew there would be SOME games to giveaway.

Thank you very much for your initiative!
It is a tough competition, nevertheless here are my entries:

Alpha Protocol
Call of Duty®: WWII
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
HITMAN™: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON
Just Cause 3 XXL Edition
Mafia III
METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
Shadow Warrior: Special Edition
Sid Meier's Civilization V
Yakuza 0

It still a great gesture :) Support charity, play some discounted games from bundles and make other gamer happy. Triple strike.