Wolf it Up! Christmas

Wolf it Up! Christmas Review

Winter. Time for celebrations, decorations, and gift-wrapping... and also time for seasonal reskins. For this festive period, developer Inspired Gaming brings us Wolf It Up! Christmas, a cheerful makeover of their Wolf It Up! slot, a successful release from earlier this year. The Christmas edition stays true to the original formula but comes dressed in a new cozy, merry skin, perfectly crafted to put players in the holiday spirit.

Wolf it Up! Christmas Slot - Base Game

Speaking of the formula, Wolf it Up! Christmas plays out across a conventional 5x3 matrix, producing 10 ways to win. Here, symbols pay from left to right from 3-of-a-kind and more, except the top-tier wolf, which needs only two. To spin the reels, players can use anything between €0.1 and €100.

The math has also remained untouched. Medium-volatile, the Wolf it Up! Christmas slot offers a chance to win up to 5,000x the stake. There are two RTP settings available, and depending on where you play, you can encounter values of either 92% or 94.5%.

Wolf it Up! Christmas Features

Like its predecessor, the Christmas edition is loaded to the brim with bonus features and exciting extras. The main gimmick here is the cash collection mechanics, and players will also benefit from free spins, jackpots, a bonus wheel, gamble, and a special spin mode.

Cash Collection

Keep an eye out for pudding symbols. The sweet treats are available on all reels except the 5th, and they land with bet multiplier values of 1x, 2x, 5x, 10x, 20x, 30x, 50x, or 100x the stake attached to them.

Landing a Collector symbol simultaneously in view along with one or more pudding symbols triggers a collection feature, where all values in view are gathered and paid out to the player. Collectors can only appear on reel 5, and there are two different types. The regular one appears both in the base game and free spins, while the bonus collector is available only during base spins. When it appears along with 4 or more pudding symbols, it launches the Cash Bank Free Spins bonus.

Cash Bank Free Spins

Once activated, all triggering pudding values are collected and paid out, as well as 8 initial spins are awarded. In the free games, new colored Prize token symbols are added, each corresponding to a jackpot. They can appear on the first four reels, and collecting a certain amount awards the respective prize.

Wolf it Up! Christmas Slot - Cash Bank Free Spins

Note that each one can be won multiple times per feature. The values are the following:

• Mini Prize Pot - awards 10x the bet. Takes 3 green tokens to trigger.
• Minor Prize Pot - awards 25x the bet. Takes 4 blue tokens to trigger.
• Major Prize Pot - awards 50x the bet. Takes 5 red tokens to trigger.
• Grand Prize Pot - awards 1,000x the bet. Takes 6 purple tokens to trigger.

Wolf Wheel Bonus

Wolf It Up! Christmas Slot - Wolf Wheel Bonus

Another function of the pudding symbols is that they can activate a special wheel bonus randomly during the gameplay, which can occur both during the base or the bonus games. Each pudding symbol contributes to a pot - Pudding Pile - and there is a chance the pot may crack open and award access to the Wolf Wheel Bonus.

The wheel consists of 6 colored segments, and you get one spin to determine your prize, whichever position the pointer stops at. The rewards differ depending on whether triggered on a base spin or during free games.
In the base game, the Wolf Wheel contains two segments with free spins as well as four segments with four different jackpot prizes. If the pointer lands on a jackpot, you get an instant rewards. If on the free spins, you get a base spin with the guaranteed required triggering combination - four or more pudding symbols are unleashed over the reels along with a bonus collector.

During the free games, the bonus wheel contains two segments with Major and Grand jackpots respectively, and four segments displaying free spins. The possible amounts are +2, +3, +5, and +10 spins.

Gamble

Another way to win big rewards or gain access to the free games is the Gamble feature. By default, it’s offered for any win of 5x or greater, but you can set it up to trigger at any win, or, if not a fan, turn the thing off completely.

When activated, players are presented with two wheels. The one on the left offers a chance to increase your winnings. Depending on how you adjust the wheel (yeah, you can change the winning and losing segments on the wheels at your preference), it can be by ⅓, 2x, or 3x. The wheel on the right, in turn, offers a chance to win the free spins.

Wolf it Up! Christmas Slot - Gamble Feature

You can choose any wheel to try your luck - if a pointer stops at green, you win. The gamble is also repeatable and you can continue spinning until reaching the win limit or the maximum amount of free spins, which is 30. If the pointer stops on red, however, all winnings will be lost.

Fortune Spins

Wolf it Up! Christmas Slot - Fortune Spins

If you want something different, the Fortune Spins mode is always at your disposal. You can switch to it any time from the base game, and the good news is no extra bets are required!

This mode gives you an opportunity to grind directly for instant collect wins and bonus features. Once activated, you proceed to special reels where all regular symbols are removed. Only blanks, pudding, and collector symbols are available. During Fortune Spins, each position of the reels spins independently on its own.

In the same way, pudding symbols display values of either 1x, 2x, 5x, 10x, 20x, 30x, 50x, or 100x the stake, while collector symbols are used to gather the prizes. Bonus collectors are also available, meaning you always have a chance to trigger the free games if one lands along with 4 or more puddings. Moreover, the Pudding Pile is active as well, and it’s possible to trigger the Wolf Wheel Bonus too.

Theme & Graphics

The Wolf It Up! Christmas slot machine delivers a festive atmosphere with its charming visuals and holiday-themed symbols, such as gingerbread houses, puddings and other sweet treats, as well as a mischievous wolf dressed up as Santa. The snowy backdrop is beautifully crated and along with the garland-adorned reels sets the perfect seasonal tone. It’s not groundbreaking by any means, but the game does get the job done well putting players into the Christmas spirit.

Pros And Cons Of Wolf It Up! Christmas Slot

Our Verdict

If we look at Wolf It Up! Christmas as a standalone release, there's no denying it's a fun festive slot. The holiday vibe, charming visuals, and action-packed gameplay lurking beneath make it a great choice for this time of year. That said, it’s impossible to ignore that this is essentially a reskin of the original Wolf It Up! with no updates to gameplay. Sure, seasonal reskins are common practice in the industry and that’s what the developers do each year during the period, but a few tweaks here and there would be appreciated.

Still, it’s a good game. The cash collection mechanics, jackpots, free spins, and the random bonus wheel keep things engaging, and the festive theme definitely puts us in the holiday spirit. If you're looking for a solid release for the season, treat yourself - Wolf It Up! Christmas is definitely worth a spin.