There’s something special about game nights during the holidays. The twinkle of lights, a mug of cocoa in hand, and a table full of friends and family ready to laugh, bluff, and occasionally accuse each other of being terrible liars. If your game shelf is getting as much love as your tree this year, it might be time to unwrap something new — Christmas-themed board game expansions.
Gingerbread Surprise Tabletop | Avon
FEATURES
• Lights up
• Gingerbread friend moves in and out as front door opens and closes
• Plays eight holiday tunes:
– “Jingle Bells”
– “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”
– “Silent Night”
– “Deck the Halls”
– “Joy to the World”
– “The First Noel”
– “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”
– “O Christmas Tree”
These limited-edition or seasonal packs take your favorite games and give them a cozy, peppermint-flavored twist. Whether you love strategy, chaos, or pure party-game fun, here are some festive additions that will bring your holiday game nights to life.
🎅 Unstable Unicorns: Christmas Special Expansion
If your herd of unicorns needs a dose of holiday spirit, this is your upgrade. Add cards like Gift Horse and Santa’s Sleighicorn for a mix of chaos and cheer that fits perfectly with the original Unstable Unicorns game.
Unstable Games Unstable Unicorns Christmas Special Expansion Pack Great for Family Game Night
Unstable Unicorns is a strategic card game that will destroy your friendships…but in a good way.
🦌 Here to Slay: Here to Sleigh Expansion
From the creators of Unstable Unicorns, this expansion dresses your heroes and monsters in festive attire. Expect new holiday-themed challenges, magical gifts, and plenty of humor as you slay your way through the season.
Unstable Games – Here to Sleigh Holiday Expansion Pack – Designed to be added to your Here to Slay Base Game
This expansion pack includes: 20 standard-sized cards, 22 Gift cards, 4 Holiday Overlay cards, 4 Checklist cards, 10 Checklist clips, and 1 rule book.
🎁 Holiday Fluxx
Fluxx is the game where the rules change constantly — and in this edition, they change with holiday joy. From Halloween to New Year’s, it’s the perfect card game to keep out all winter long. Just don’t get too attached to any rule… it’ll probably change before your next turn.
Looney Labs Holiday Fluxx Card Game – Celebrate Holidays with 2-6 Players
A simpler version of Fluxx
🎨 Pictures: X-MAS Expansion
Add some wintry magic to your photo-guessing game with this expansion full of cozy holiday images. A sweet upgrade for the family-friendly hit Pictures, it makes for a relaxed, laugh-filled evening with relatives who may or may not understand strategy games.
Pictures: Christmas Expansion Pack – X-Mas Holiday Season Party Game, Card Game Expansion, PD Games, Rio Grande Games, Ages 8+, 3-6 Players, 30 Minute Playing Time
Pictures is a quick-playing family game with very simple rules. Form the image on your secret picture cards with one set of components, either a set of shoelaces, color cubes, icon cards, sticks and stones, or building blocks in such a way that the other players guess what image you have pictured.
🐮 Herd Mentality: Christmas Expansion Pack
The silly, moo-themed party game gets a Christmas makeover with questions like “What’s the best holiday movie?” or “At what age do you stop believing in Santa?” Get the herd thinking alike and laughing all the way.
Big Potato Herd Mentality Christmas Expansion Pack
Herd Mentality Christmas Booster. 100 all new questions for Herd Mentality.
Includes Moodolph the red-nosed cow.
🎉 Green Team Wins: Holiday Party Expansion
If your holiday gatherings lean toward the chaotic side, this one’s for you. Add Christmas-themed prompts to your Green Team Wins deck and watch as players try to predict the most popular (and often ridiculous) answers.
25th Century Games Green Team Wins: Holiday Party, Christmas Themed Expansion to The Hit Party Game
Add festive fun to your game nights with 105 new holiday-themed cards that bring joy to your favorite party game.
🏘️ Welcome To… Winter Wonderland Expansion
For fans of the clever roll-and-write Welcome To…, this expansion swaps in festive neighborhood sheets featuring snowmen, string lights, and wintry charm. It’s the same satisfying city-planning gameplay, just wrapped in a frosty bow.
Deep Water Games Welcome to: Dry Erase Expansion Collection: Spring, Summer, Halloween, Winter Wonderland
As an architect in Welcome To Your Perfect Home, your goal is to build the best new town by adding pools, hiring employees, improving the parks, and more!
🥒 Big Dill Holiday Expansion
If you’ve never played Big Dill, imagine a chaotic, pickle-themed card game — and yes, it’s as weird as it sounds. The Holiday Expansion adds seasonal twists that make it even funnier and more gift-worthy. Great for families who don’t take their games too seriously.
Left Justified Studio A Big Dill Holiday Fun Party Card Game for Adults, Teens & Kids, Holiday Party Game Bluffing & Exaggeration Deck for Groups, Family, and Friends
A Big Dill Holiday expansion comes packed with 60 holiday-themed prompt cards, 2 festive new erasable dill meters, and 2 dry-erase markers, bringing even more excitement and interaction to every game night!
💡 National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation Board Game
For movie-night lovers, this board game captures the chaos of Clark Griswold’s iconic Christmas. It’s a mix of luck, laughter, and nostalgic fun — best played with someone wearing a Santa hat and a slightly frazzled grin.
Goliath National Lampoon’s: Christmas Vacation | Hilarious Holiday Family Game | 2-5 Players, Ages 8+
Join Clark, Cousin Eddie, and Snots for an unforgettable Christmas with the Griswolds! Will you get a membership to the Jelly-of-the-Month Club or will you snag up a Christmas Bonus on your path to victory? Whatever the holidays have in store for you, you know they’ll be full of family chaos
📸 What Do You Meme? Family Holiday Edition
Perfect for bigger gatherings, this version of What Do You Meme? adds holiday images and captions to keep everyone laughing. Think awkward family photos, festive fails, and jokes you’ll still be quoting next year.
WHAT DO YOU MEME? Holiday Family Edition by Relatable, Holiday Games Travel Pack, Christmas Party Game, Includes 30 Photo Cards and 120 Caption Cards
Deck the halls with laughter and memes with What Do You Meme? Holiday Family Edition. An extension of the original TikTok famous What Do You Meme? card game, this Christmas edition brings a sleigh-full of holiday cheer to family game nights, Friendsmas parties, and office celebrations.
🕯️ Avalon Hill Betrayal: Evil Reigns in The Wynter’s Pale (A Yuletide Tale Expansion)
If your idea of holiday fun leans more toward eerie mansions than gingerbread houses, this one’s for you. Evil Reigns in The Wynter’s Pale takes the classic Betrayal at House on the Hill (3rd Edition) and gives it a chilling Christmas twist. Beloved holiday characters are reimagined as sinister villains, stalking the creaky halls of the House on the Hill in a frostbitten nightmare of tinsel and terror.
It’s the perfect expansion for players who like their carols a little cursed. Expect festive dread, haunted gifts, and just enough dark humor to make your next game night deliciously unsettling. Not every visitor brings cheer — some bring chaos wrapped in a bow.
Avalon Hill Betrayal Evil Reigns in The Wynter’s Pale The Yuletide Tale Expansion | Ages 12+ | Requires Betrayal at HOTH 3rd Edition to Play
In the Evil Reigns in the Wynter’s Pale The Yuletide Tale expansion pack, players interact with the explorers of the base game with 2 holiday-themed characters. Because of a magical mishap, the cold-hearted visitor and his henchman have assumed identities of other beloved holiday characters and have acquired numerous magical powers.
🎲 Ravensburger Disney Villainous: Filled with Fright
For those who like their holiday cheer with a dash of mischief, Filled with Fright invites you straight into Halloween Town — now twinkling with just enough holiday sparkle to make Jack Skellington proud. This standalone entry in the Disney Villainous series lets you play as Oogie Boogie, Lock, Shock, Barrel, and the Pumpkin King himself in a game of strategy, sabotage, and sinister delight.
Each villain comes with unique goals and powers, and every turn feels like plotting your own musical number gone gloriously wrong. The art drips with gothic charm, the gameplay rewards clever scheming, and the entire experience captures that perfect mix of creepy and cozy that defines The Nightmare Before Christmas.
It’s not your average jingle-bell board game — it’s a festive fright fest where being bad feels merrily good.
Ravensburger Disney Villainous Filled with Fright – Strategy Board Game – Join Oogie Boogie, Lock, Jack Skellington, and More – Award-Winning Line – Ages 10+
Step into the enchanting yet treacherous realm of Disney Villainous with the Filled with Fright Expansion. Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas Villains are represented in custom illustrations on each game card. Play as super-villain Oogie Boogie and use your unique abilities to frustrate your enemies and topple Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King!
❄️ Memoir ’44: Winter Wars Expansion
For history buffs and strategy lovers who prefer their battles fought on frosty fronts, Winter Wars delivers a snow-covered challenge like no other. This expansion for Memoir ’44 drops players into the thick of the Battle of the Bulge — icy roads, blizzards, and all.
The addition of new scenarios, troop types, and rules for winter combat makes every move feel tense and cinematic. It’s not a cozy fireside game, but it is the perfect counterbalance to all the candy-cane sweetness of the season. If you like your holiday gaming with grit, tactics, and just a hint of frostbite, Winter Wars is your call to arms.
Memoir ’44: Winter Wars Expansion
This Memoir ’44 expansion packs everything a soldier needs to fight through the bitter cold battles of the Ardennes Offensive during Christmas 1944.
🏰 Dice Kingdoms of Valeria: Winter Expansion
When the snows fall over Valeria, even the bravest adventurers trade their swords for strategy sheets. The Winter Expansion for Dice Kingdoms of Valeria turns this beloved roll-and-write game into a frosty test of planning and resourcefulness.
Players must navigate the frozen season’s new mechanics — from icy challenges to fresh scoring twists — while still managing their growing kingdom. The artwork sparkles with winter magic, and the gameplay stays crisp and clever, like cold air before a storm.
It’s the kind of expansion that makes you want to light a candle, grab a warm drink, and roll your way through a kingdom blanketed in snow. Strategic, serene, and just a little bit chilly — Valeria has never looked so enchanting.
Dice Kingdoms of Valeria Winter Expansion: Seasonal Strategy Roll & Write Game – Daily Magic Games
After a summer spent fortifying your duchy and subduing the monster-kin, winter’s first snowfall puts you right back at square-one, but this time the monster-kin are better organized and harder to find. This winter-themed expansion for Dice Kingdoms of Valeria contains snowy castle and forest player pads (50 sheets each) featuring a new map with unfamiliar roads to your favorite domains and some new monster-slaying mechanics.
🧊 Pathfinder Pawns: Reign of Winter Adventure
For tabletop adventurers who want their campaigns served with a side of frostbite and folklore, Reign of Winter brings a blizzard of storytelling potential. This Pathfinder Pawns set equips your game with beautifully illustrated standees featuring icy creatures, wintry heroes, and bone-chilling villains straight out of legend.
It’s designed to pair with the Reign of Winter Adventure Path, where players face witches, snowbound beasts, and kingdoms locked in eternal cold. The pawns make the world come alive — or undead, depending on your dice rolls — turning your tabletop into a frozen battlefield worthy of epic tales.
If your idea of holiday fun is less “sleigh bells” and more “slay spells,” this set will make your next winter campaign one to remember.
Pathfinder Pawns Reign Winter Adventure
Key monsters and NPCs from the Reign of Winter Adventure Path come alive on your tabletop with the Reign of Winter Pawn Collection, featuring more than 100 creature pawns for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game or any tabletop fantasy RPG!
✨ Wrap Up Your Game Night
Whether you’re building unicorn armies or competing to see who has the best holiday movie opinions, these expansions bring new life to familiar games — without learning complicated new rules. It’s the easiest way to add a spark of cheer to your regular game lineup.
So dust off your deck boxes, pour something warm, and let the Christmas chaos begin.
