Santa's Great Gifts Slot - Review, Demo, Casinos, Bonuses

Santa's Great Gifts Review

It’s understandable that many developers don’t pour their heart and soul into creating the visual presentation for seasonal releases like this, but they still have to deliver on the gameplay. Santa's Great Gifts does that in spades, if you can look past the superficial presentation, and fans of Sweet Bonanza and Gates of Olympus should pay attention to this one.

The pace is snappy if you hold down the spacebar to activate turbo mode, and you get tumble sequences that may involve multiplier symbols up to x100. The multipliers accumulate and are added together to boost the total win, and they come in 4 different levels in the bonus round. You level up by collecting multiplier symbols, and this is how you’re most likely to close in on the 5,000x win cap.

Santa's Great Gifts Slot - Reels Screen

Santa's Great Gifts Slot Features

You can play with the Ante Bet turned on for 25 % more per spin, and this doubles your bonus round chances. The premium symbols pay between 10 and 50 x your stake for 10+ anywhere in view, and there are no wild symbols in this game. Winning symbols are removed via the Tumble mechanic, and new and/or existing symbols drop down to fill the gaps. This repeats as long as you keep winning.

You can land green, purple, blue and red gift-wrapped boxes, and these are Multiplier Symbols with values between x2 and x100. The tumble wins accumulate multiplier symbols until the end of the feature, and the total win is then boosted by the total value of all accumulated multiplier symbols.

The Bonus Round triggers from 4, 5 or 6 scatters in view, and this gives you 10, 15 or 20 free spins, respectively. The bonus round starts you off at level 1, and multiplier symbols are collected in a meter. As you collect multiplier symbols, the bonus round levels up to give you more and more lucrative multiplier symbols. It works as follows:

• Level 1 - comes with multiplier symbol values between x2 and x100.
• Level 2 (7 collected multiplier symbols) - comes with multiplier symbol values of x8 to x100.
• Level 3 (10 collected multiplier symbols) - comes with multiplier symbol values between x15 and x100.
• Level 4 (14 collected multiplier symbols) - comes with multiplier symbol values between x50 and x100.

You can retrigger the bonus round by landing 3+ scatters in view in the same cascading sequence, and this awards +5 extra spins each time. Non-UK players, and anyone eligible, can buy the bonus round at level 1, 2, 3 or 4 for 100x, 200x, 300x, or 400x the stake, respectively.

The 200 Spins Santa's Great Gifts Slot Experience

You get a brief taste of the base game, before we purchase the top-tier bonus round at 0:30 into the 3:23-minute highlights video. The feature starts at 0:50 into the video, and you can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

The visual presentation has the depth of a Coca Cola commercial, but that doesn’t really stop Santa's Great Gifts from being a “great gift” to players who enjoy multiplier-boosted scatter paying action. The multiplier symbols can land you solid wins out of the blue, and this adds a highly entertaining tension to all stages of the game. You never know when a multiplier will tumble down, and it can lead to payouts up to a decent 5,000x your stake.

Is Santa's Great Gifts a contender for the greatest Christmas slot of the year? Perhaps not, but it’s better than many other seasonal releases we have tried. It’s hard to go wrong with a setup like this to be fair, and the max win hit rate is a decent 1 in 17,241,379. It’s more likely to be cracked in the higher levels of the bonus round, of course, but the feature doesn’t come about all that often with a hit rate of 1 in 361 spins.

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Gates of Olympus - is another volatile installment in the scatter pays range from Pragmatic Play, and you can land up to x500 multiplier orbs in the base game. The progressive multiplier never resets in the bonus round, and this can lead to payouts up to 5,000x your stake.

Sweet Bonanza Xmas - is Pragmatic Play’s Xmas contribution in 2019, and it’s a reskin of their iconic candyland release that goes by a similar name. You get tumbling wins in all stages, and a multiplier symbol up to x100 can benefit you in the bonus round. The advertised max win is 21,100x your stake.

Saint Nicked - is one of the most interesting Xmas releases this year, and you get to follow a naughty badass Santa going on a drinking binge with his favorite reindeer. They eventually end up in the drunk tank, and you get hilarious action commentary from the tattooed, muscular Santa. The Advent Calendar system is innovative, and you can win up to 5,000x your stake.