Thank you very much, generous Secret Santa and all Secret Elves!

Many thanks to everyone involved, specially to our local Christmas legend Zeffyr, the meteorologist reindeer.

Some will argue that Santa isn't even real. It is, there are two of them!
Thank you Secret Santa and GOG!

Happy Holidays everyone!!!

Huge thanks to my Secret Santa and one Secret Elf who both have very good taste when picking stuff from a (wish)list. :)

Round of thanks to GOG peeps for the additional gift, somehow I got something that I never heard of and yet it's VERY similar to something else on my wishlist so I just gladly accepted the gift and removed the other game from my wishlist. ;)

Special shout out to Papa Santa zeffyr, you are our true treasure and we value immensely how you shine while performing your organizational duties. <3

And lastly, I gotta say...reading all the messages in this thread is so heartwarming, and one can't help but feel cozy as among family while going through them. At the end, that's what this event is all about! \o/

Merry Christmas, everybody! :)

Well played my dear Secret Santa! I loved my presents. Thank you so much for your kind selection.

Congrats to zeffyr who ran this 2024 edition like a champ. Hope you'll be part of next one too.

Fellow GoGers/Goglodytes, Please enjoy these days and envision a daunting yet satisfying 2025.

Until next one!

REDVWIN

Ooh-ohh, I overslept and I'm late to the party. It's night here already and you ate everything, yet a gift for me was still waiting under the tree. Many thanks to the Secret Santa! I will savor these delicacies over the next few months.

Also thanks to Secret GOG Santa & our UberSanta zeffyr!

Merry Christmas Gog Gaming fans!

I want to thank my very sweet Secret Santa for the games and the accompanying thoughtful message. I can't wait to start the first of hundreds of hours of gaming sure to come rom these when I return home!

Also, thank you to Gog for the suprise game. It is one I will also definitely try as it's up my alley.

Finally, as always thank you to our fantastic Santa zeffyr who wears that santa hat so well!

Dear Secret Santa, thank you so much for this wonderful gift! You're literally breathtaking, you should know that, my gratitude to you can't be described by any words.
Thank you very much zeffyr for your hard work to organize this event, and of course GOG for the extra gift!
Merry Christmas everyone!

Many thanks to my Secret Santa for the gift!

A big thank you to GOG for boosting the Christmas spirit with an extra gift!

Many thanks to zeffyr for having organized the whole event once again and to every participant.

Merry Christmas Everybody!

It's 11:15 pm and I'm back home from spending Xmas with Mom. :) Had a wonderful time with her. She was most generous with her cooking. Loved every single bite! xD Poor woman with a cane walked great distances to gather stuff for today's grand meal. I hugged her to say thanks.

Now, I get to open my Secret Santa presents! Yay!!

[moments later...]

"Hoo! Hoo!" as Puffy Face would say. ;) Secret Santa has been very good to me this year! LOL! I am very, very surprised, on so many levels. Thank you sooo much for putting much thought into the games you picked for me, especially that game "very close to your heart", as you put it. I will definitely think of you when I play it! :) I was happy with each of your selections and the fact that you spiced things up with variety. I too pay attention to details such as music and art style, so I appreciate that you considered these things when making your choices. Thoughtful and generous too. I'll be crawling into bed soon with a big fat smile on my face! ** hugs **

Dear GOG... thank you for the unexpected gift! :) A wonderful game with awesome replayability is in itself a gift that keeps on giving. ;) Very kind of the GOG Team to support this Secret Santa tradition and I want to wish everyone at GOG a heartfelt Merry Christmas!

I raise my mug of marshmallow cocoa to you, Santa zeffyr, for bringing the community together under this magical umbrella called Christmas, filling our hearts with cheer and excitement! Thanks for hosting this wonderful tradition for yet another year. It brings me great joy. :)

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas! Though probably belatedly for most of you, so in that case I hope you all had a nice holiday :)

To zeffyr: Thank you for taking the reins once again, you've been a consummate host as always.

To GOG: Thank you for that surprise stocking stuffer! It's really a nice gesture to the community.

And finally to my Secret Santa: What a cool and varied set of games you picked out. I'm really looking forward to playing them. Thanks so much!

Cheers everyone!

Merry Christmas everyone! Thank you to zeffyr for taking the mantle again this year and a big thanks to my Secret Santa for the gifts.

Merry Xmas everyone!

Thanks to zeffyr for being awesome once again, to all Secret Santas and Elves for the spirit and to gog for the surprises!

May you and your loved ones be healthy, happy, live long and prosper.

Merry Christmas everyone! I would like to thank my secret santa for the games (excellent choices) and for the heartwarming message. I will take it to heart.

Thank you GOG for the extra game, it really was a nice surprise.

I also want to thank everyone who took part and made this the fun event that it was.

And a heartfelt thank you to zeffyr. It is hard to thank you enough for organizing this event. It really is a special event and thank you so much for putting in the work needed to make it work.

So, I came back home, as excited as I was last as a child - it has at least been quite some time - as I opened my gifts.

My dear Secret Santa: Not selfish at all! I will be honest though: For a split second, I was worried, I might get some random game, I might already own or not even be interested in. But you picked from the list, so you did everything right. Thank you very much!

To gog Santa: Thank you for the unexpected gift. This looks massive. But once I get back into lenghy games, I will give it a try.

I hope, you all had a great christmas time, either in quiet solitude or with family and/or friends, whichever one you prefer.

Boxing Day was almost over. Old Santa has had a lovely time with his family and friends over the past two days. He also had a little too much eggnog during the festivities; his cheeks were redder than usual, a clear sign that he needed to sleep it off. But his rocking chair was sooo comfy, he napped longer than he had planned.
He rubbed his eyes as he noticed the pile of boxes, festively wrapped and tied with silk ribbons, lit by the crackling fire in the fireplace. He glanced at the coffee table beside them; the cup of eggnog was empty and the cookies gone. He rubbed his chin under his long white beard - was it Papa Santa-zeffyr who had got the treats, or had he gobbled them all up himself?
He shook his shoulders and approached the presents with little dancing steps, giggling and clapping his hands like a little child.
He reached out to pick one up, but halfway through, another one caught his eye and he reached out to pick it up, and then another, and another; he just couldn't decide which one to open first.
But then he noticed the munched orange ribbon on one of the gift boxes.
"Ho! Ho! Ho! This one was delivered by Rudolph himself!" he exclaimed, and with that, he rushed at the pile; before you could say "Santa", he had unwrapped them all.
"What marvellous gifts!", he clapped his hands, his eyes gleaming with joy.

He poured himself a cup of eggnog and sat down to write thank-you cards.

- "My dear Secret Santa, my heartfelt thanks for the wonderful gifts, matched only by your warm and thoughtful wishes! May 2025 repay your kindness and generosity tenfold."

- "My not-so-Secret Elf, I can't thank you enough for the joyous surprise of a most wonderful gift and the... glorious message that came with it; never change! I hope 2025 brings you everything you wish for, and then some."

- "Dear GOG Elf, your support of our community tradition, and the unexpected gifts to me and all the Santas and Elves are greatly appreciated; thank you so much. May 2025 fill your catalogue to the brim and expand your clientele and community to the stars."

- "My dearest Papa Santa-zeffyr, what would we little Santas and Elves do, or even be, without you? No words can express my gratitude for your tireless efforts and the joy you have brought to each and every one of us. I hope that 2025 will be at least as generous, joyful and thoughtful to you as you have been to us."

Old Santa was sipping eggnog and reading through his thank-you cards. He was about to deliver them and call it a day when he suddenly snapped his fingers.
"Oops, I almost forgot! I really must lay off the eggnog," he muttered to himself.

- "Dear Santas and Elves, new and old, this wouldn't be a long-standing GOG Community tradition without all of you. May the spirit of the season see you through 2025, until we gather here again next year."