Christmas is coming! And as the most popular season of the year, Christmas-themed online slots are highly popular too! Online gamers are certainly excited to play classic Christmas online slots and are definitely looking forward to new Christmas slots releases from top online slot game developers.
This Christmas, NetEnt will release their Secrets of Christmas video slot on December 15 while Real Time Gaming (RTG) is slated to release Snowmania on November 23.
Secrets of Christmas
Secrets of Christmas by NetEnt is a 5-reel, 25-payline online slot which will be available on all platforms. Christmas vibe is aptly represented by a wooden lodged decked with holly, complete with a sack filled with toys, gingerbread houses and cookies, milk, Christmas bells and Santa Claus who is the Wild. The bell is the highest value symbol, affording a player 1,250 times his stake for 5 on the payline.
The scatter is the sacks full of toys, wherein 3 of them triggers free spins. A player gets to pick from a lot of 20 gifts before the free spins for extra Christmas gifts tow win. Picking 5 scatters mean 5 extra gifts, with each “gift” containing from 2 to 10 extra spins, or 1x or 2x multipliers. Unwrapping 5 gifts could mean 10 extra free spins for a total of 25 free spins, 2x multipliers and 2 wild reels! How’s that for a Merry Christmas? This video slot has the potential winnings of up to 1,425 the stake thus making it an appealing slot to play all year through.
Snowmania
Real Time Gaming will release its Christmas-themed slot on November 23. Aptly called Snowmania, this innovative slot is all about snowmen, snow, ice, gingerbread men, bells, hollies and other snow-laden items. This video slot is in 3D, with crisp and sharp graphics and animated background music.
The gameplay is full of extra wins and free spins, where the Ice Wild icon is the Wild when it lands on reels 2, 3 and 4, with all other symbols paying left to right. After payment of winnings, the winning symbols are crushed to make way for new Christmassy symbols that may award extra winnings. A multiplier for the total prize may build up from the original spin. A 2x the total prize may appear after the first crush, 3x the total prize after the second crush and a whopping 5x the accumulated prize after the third crush.
When three or more gift symbols appear from left to right, 10 free games are triggered. During the free games, crush multipliers can reach up to 15X.
We’re still waiting if other online slot developers will be releasing new Christmas video slots in time for the season. Meanwhile, a whole range of last year’s Christmas-theme slots are available at online casinos.
