A couple of really cool horror artists got commissioned for this and its soooo cool. Valdevia, OmegaBlack Louceph and Trevor Henderson (slimyswampghost) are all really awesome :3

i hope the dev makes an art book or 'field guide' style book cause that would slap so hard and i'd for sure buy that. his world building and creatures being based on fae and folklore but being their own tings is so interesting

1:02:13 That. That's the Polar Express. They turned the Polar Express into a cryptid.

The comedic timing of people on the other side screaming like "HELP ME PLEEEASSSEEEE" and then a very casual "please hold" with Christmas music in the background

44:45 I just like the image of this scene in my head:

Gab's chatting to people about a horror book club she signed up for, as she answers the phone, then stops to listen to this guy apparently just get buried under snow, ice, dirt, and rock. After hearing that, Gab just puts him on hold and immediately continues on with her story about the book club. Then, after finishing her story and looking through her catalogue of SCP-like phenomenon, she brings the guy off of hold just to say "Alright, sir, it appears what you have is an avalanche and NOT a mountain warlock. Mystery solved. Have a lovely day!"

I'll bet the Mouse King is the dude from the main game that was turned into a mouse.  He's trying to form a militia to get back at the company, and they want him dead because he knows too much

also: if you loved the caller Georgia’s voice, she’s done by a streamer named Granny! she’s awesome and played the game on stream with one of the devs (Carol!) recently :)

I was so thrown in a spectacular way by all the things in this. Santa and Krampus being portrayed as equally dangerous counterpart demons while something else entirely comes down the chimney and leaves its own handmade approximation of toys, elves as well-meaning intruders whose uncanny biology causes illness, dwarves BEING the rocks we usually see them picking away at, the concept of "visions of sugarplums" being the side effect of a spirit that causes deadly sugar dependency, Sweden's ill-fated annual Yule Goat being a paranoia-inducing Grilled Cheesus-esque apparition, the Polar Express as a child-eating monster, Dickens' Christmas ghosts all being one entity, the use of every obscure scary Christmas character Sam O'Nella taught us about (Mari Lwyd, Gryla, the Yule Lads, the Yule Cat and Perchta), Trevor Henderson crow monsters disguising themselves as carolers and their bird sounds being mistaken for off-key singing, the Nutcracker's nemesis as a recurring Christmastime threat (at least according to the infamously mouse-hating HSH), a storm of eldritch spores being what turns people into wendigos, Rudolph's nose being a weird fungal growth... Hell, I could even almost swear the Mountain Warlock might be a twisted take on the Grinch, and his vocalizing even sounds like Thurl Ravenscroft. And on top of all this, they got the very man who inspired the original game's prank caller to voice Hudson in this. The HSH devs never fail to amaze.

Others have already pointed out some references, but I spotted two more:
The sugar wisps, with their plum-scent and dream inducement, is a nod to "'Twas the Night Before Christmas".

The time wisps stay for a single night, displacing a person in time, and the person is left with a new outlook on life and a desire to change... or anxiety about what's to come. I believe this is a reference to the ghosts from A Christmas Carol
And that's what happened to that one guy who knew he was gonna die.

Caller: "The aurora borealis, at this time of day, in this part of the country!?"
HSH representative: "...yep! Merry Christmas!"

“ohhh this could be a Mike situation” i’m so glad we can just call these guys Mikes now and immediately understand what’s going on 😂

I love that The Locomotive is basically The Polar Express, except instead of being able to hear a bell when you have faith, you get to go home safely.

Not related to the video, but I used your Nancy playlist to get my new cats to feel more at home, they lived with a woman and were a bit afraid of my (male) voice at the start. Kitties are well at home now. Now I need to find out where I was so I can continue the playlist myself.

I really hope you consider playing "Until Then" a Filipino indie game, there's rarely representations of Filipino culture in games. I'm a Filipino myseIf and I love all your videos, I wait every 12am here just to watch your videos as soon as you posted them. Love from the Philippines 💕

Can we just talk about how clever the false Carolers are? They’re bird creatures and birds are known to mimic human voices. I love the transition between the bird squawks to singing, really tickles my brain

7:02 “OH NO! NOT THE ELDERLY HUMAN MEN!”

The Mare is totally based on the Welsh folk Christmas custom of Mari Lywd!! So happy to see her popping up here and there!

OMG the man screaming like he's about to die to an avalanche to which we respond "please hold" LOL Cracks me up every time.

2 bad they didn;t do halloween season, could be great with the headless horse man or other

A Halloween dlc would  go hard