Oh it’s awful! … Who’s going to buy it for us? (Zavvi)
It won’t feel like Christmas unless people are wearing ugly jumpers, and there’s plenty of them available for gamers this year.
With Christmas fast approaching, what is the ideal gift for the gamer friend/family member in your life? A copy of Game of the Year winner Astro Bot? An Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscription so they can play the new Indiana Jones game?
Obviously, the correct answer is a gaming themed Christmas jumper, the perfect fashion statement to celebrate the season and your favourite video game. Christmas Jumper Day had some chic options that were borderline fashionable, but everyone knows the uglier the better.
To make things a bit easier for prospective buyers, we’ve scoured retailers for every gaming-themed Christmas jumpers they have on offer and put together a selection of the best ones we could find, and by best we mean worst – and also best.
Best ugly Christmas jumpers for gamers in 2024
As it turns out, several geek-focused retailers have dedicated sections for Christmas jumpers around this time of year, such as Just Geek. You’ll want to act fast, though, since any orders later than this week won’t arrive until after Christmas.
Their selection covers an array of popular movie and television franchises, but when it comes to gaming, we have to highlight this especially awful looking Xbox jumper. It’s just so green that you could lose your Brussel sprouts on it and it’s currently discounted to £19.99.
We know green is the colour of Xbox but that is too much green (Just Geek)
They’ve also got a Sonic The Hedgehog jumper for £19.99 as well, in case anyone is brave enough to wear this to the cinema for the third movie coming out this week.
If you’re more of a Pokémon fan, Zavvi has a bunch of themed Christmas jumpers depicting various pokémon. It’s all obvious picks, like Pikachu and Charizard, but the most garish of the lot is this one for £39.99.
The rest are surprisingly pretty stylish and could be worn for the rest of winter, though we have to highlight this Mew themed one if only for the puntastic ‘All I want for Christmas is Mew’ name.
Gotta go ugly (Just Geek)
GeekCore’s range is truly horrendous, and we mean that in the best way possible. They must be popular because most of the range is sold out. A shame since this Legend Of Zelda jumper looks like the kind of thing your grandma would knit for you and (tri)force you to wear all day.
As for what they do have in stock, GeekCore has its own garish Pokémon jumper depicting Pikachu in a Father Christmas hat for £39.99. Younger Minecraft fans may unironically enjoy this patterned jumper, but it is pricey at £44.99.
This one is actually pretty cool (Merchoid)
Merchoid’s range may be our favourite, though, purely because they’re officially labelled as ugly Christmas jumpers. We love this PlayStation one for £38.99 in particular, and apparently so does everyone else since there’s only a handful of stock left at the time of writing.
One jumper that looks genuinely cool is this Pac-Man one, depicting a classic maze complete with ghosts and pellets but shaped like a Christmas tree. We could see this being an actual themed level in one of the games. It too is £38.99 and on the cusp of selling out.
If you’ve got some extra cash to spare in the Christmas budget and know an avid gamer who would appreciate an ugly Christmas jumper, you can’t go wrong with any of these.
Celebrate like its 1995 and you’re playing Ridge Racer for the first time (Merchoid)
The best video game ugly Christmas jumpers and where to get them
