The Clause
A downloadable game for Windows
Genre: Point & Click Adventure
Created By: Christopher Forlines
Made for the Monthly Adventure Game Studio (Jam) MAGS, October 2025
Theme: Ancient
Story:
It is 1930. You are John Allenson, a professor at the college who has returned to the lab during the holiday lull to perform a small experiment. When your friend, Nicholas, comes to invite you on an "adventure of a lifetime" to the North Pole.
About:
As we all know, it is difficult to make a Christmas themed game. For every Christmas game worth playing there are at least 100 Halloween games. While watching Ross's Game Dungeon (YouTube) one year he lamented the lack of Christmas games and stated "Christmas is Dead, no more Christmas games". So I decided that I, too, was tired of a lack of good Christmas games and began to cobble together an idea of what a good Christmas game might be. This is the result of that idea.
I was only able to join the jam within the last week. For that reason it will be easy to find story dead-ends, logical issues, and even poorly written character dialogue as there were many ideas vying for the short time I had to fit them into the game. Regardless, I hope you enjoy what you find here and that this fills someone's idea of a "Good" Christmas Game.
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Install instructions
Download.
Virus Scan.
Run the EXE under the "Windows" folder.
Comments
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I liked this a lot. Great atmosphere, and the graphic style works wonders in the "Further in" location especially. But...I suspect there should be two endings? There's only one in the version that's up now.
Thank you! I've since corrected the ending bug and replaced the upload so both endings should be working!
They do, and saves weren't broken either. Thanks for the quick fix!