When the trees are shedding their leaves and the days are shortening, you know that Christmas is near. For some it is the most wonderful time of the year, but whatever you sentiment, you can let the light shine in your online casino game. To lend you a helping hand, we list the very best Christmas themed slot games for you to brighten up your December month. On our list of favourites you find three newly released slots to get you into a Christmassy mood, as well as a few classics. And of course you can play all these fabulous slots anytime of year.
New slot games for the Christmas season
In recent years the top game developers have cranked up their output of new slot games. Some of these recently launched online slots are updates or different versions of existing slots that are highly popular. One of the latest Christmas-themed slots that has found its way on our list, is based on an existing game that operates with the Cluster Pays mechanism. This slot is particularly exciting if you want to move away from the traditional winter wonderland. But if you are dreaming of a white Christmas, there are plenty of slots to add to the Christmas cheer with exciting chances to make great winnings.
Beat the Holiday Robbers on Take Santa’s Shop slot
Take Santa’s Shop is an upbeat and engaging game with the usual Christmas-themed ingredients as symbols on the reels. The game title refers to the Holiday Robbers who want to steal all the contents of Santa’s shop. It is up to you to claim your winnings before the Holiday robbers can empty out Santa’s shop.
You can make winning combinations with icons such different types of Christmassy sweets, Christmas stockings, bells and various presents such as rocking horses and snow globes. The game is set in a winter wonderland at night in front of Santa’s shop and is accompanied by an action-filled soundtrack.
The grid has 5 reels and 4 rows and offers you 75 bet lines. The ornament bomb counter, which you find on the right side of the grid, counts down from 10 every time the icon of the Holiday Robbers appears on the reels. The icon will then turn into a bauble bomb. Once the counter has reached 0, all ornament bombs will transform into Wild symbols, which almost guarantees you a big win.
Free Spins is activated as usual and three Scatter symbols in the triggering round grants you 15 free spins. In Free Spins mode, the Ornament Bomb Counter is not active. That doesn’t mean you miss out on Wild symbols on the reels, as Wild bombs appear on every free spin, which significantly increases your win chances. You can also activate Free Spins with the Bonus Buy. There are three different Bonus Buy options available. Trigger Free Spins without Scatter symbols and receive five Wild bombs for 27 times your stake. Pay 50 times your stake and you enter Free Spin straight away plus you receive 7 Wild bombs. For 95 times your stake you get 10 Wild bombs with your direct access to Free Spins. Take Santa’s Shop is a medium variance slot with an original twist and a modest maximum win of 10,000, which makes it a perfect Christmas-themed slot for smaller players.
Energise your Christmas game with Jingle Bells Power Reels slot
Jingle Bells Power Reels a full-on newly released slot with a 8×6 reels structure. This high volatility slot has 40 paylines and offers maximum wins of 6,000 times your stake. The slot is jam-packed with features including Raining Wilds, Colossal Wilds, Multipliers and Free Spins. As you can expect from a Christmas themed slot, symbols on the reels include baubles, golden stars, Christmas stockings, sweet canes and jingle bells.
The grid is set in an undefined living room with a burning fireplace to the left and a modestly decorated Christmas tree on the right. As you spin the reels, Santa can be seen shoving Colossal 6×6 sized Wild symbols on to the reels for a guaranteed win. Or he sneaks passed the reels to add some Christmas slot game magic. This can take the form of Raining Wilds, Multipliers or Winning Reels. To make it rain Wild symbols, Santa throws several wrapped presents on to the reels which causes it to rain Wild symbols. Win Multiplier take the shape of wrapped presents that Santa puts under the Christmas tree. The value of the randomly chose multiplier is applied to any winnings. Santa can also sneak across while he touches the reels to give them a golden glow. This glow removes all lower-value symbols from the reels for greater chances to hit bigger wins.
As is usual, you trigger Free Spins mode by playing multiple Free Spins Scatter symbols in one round. Even on a grid this large, a minimum of three Scatter symbols gives you eight free spins. You are guaranteed all of Santa’s bonus gift in Free Spins mode. Any additional three Scatters you play, grants you an extra three free rounds. Free Spins can be retriggered by playing an additional three Scatter symbols granting you five free spins and an extra three free rounds for every Free Spins Scatter symbol you play in addition to that. You can truly power up your Christmas or any time of the year with Red Tiger’s recently released high volatility Christmas themed slot Jingle Bells Power Reels.
Aloha! Christmas
If you want something different this Christmas and dream of spending this time of the year in the tropics, there is a perfect slot just for you. Aloha! Christmas is set on a tropical island somewhere in the South Pacific. This recently-released slot is the Christmas edition of Aloha! Cluster Pays.
The tropical slot game action of Aloha! Christmas takes place on a 6×6 sized grid. Like on the original, the reels operate with the Cluster Pays mechanism. Aloha! Christmas is filled to the tropical brim with exciting features. These include Mystery symbols, Multiplier Wilds, Sticky Win Re-Spins and two types of Free Spins Mode: Tiki Bar Free Spins and Tiki Bar Max Free Spins. Unlike the original, Aloha! Christmas is set on a relaxed beach with a few beach shacks that have some Christmas decorations. The jolly tiki statue on the side of the grid is adorned with Santa’s hat. The Mystery symbol feature works the same as on the original.
In terms of Multipliers, you can claim these up to x7, both in the main game as well as in Free Spins. Any winning cluster can randomly trigger a Sticky Win Re-spin. Once you have triggered Free Spins with the usual minimum of three Scatter symbols, you can win a coin win of 10, 25 or 50 times your bet for one, two or three additional Scatter symbols played in the triggering round. Go for a hot and sunny Christmas and spin the reels of Aloha! Christmas slot.
Classic Christmas-themed slot games
With so many exciting new slot games it is easy to forget the older games. However, especially if you love classic online fruit machines, make sure to check out these two classic slots, that are not considered classics for nothing.
Get jolly this Christmas with Jingle Spins
Jingle Spins is an off-beat and cute Christmas-themed slot that brings you into a seasonal mood in an instant. It is a medium variance slot with 20 fixed pay lines. The backdrop of this slot is Santa’s grotto where his elves are working over-time to get everything ready for Christmas. The reels spin with the help of an elf that pulls a handle. That handle on its turn puts a wheel in motion that releases baubles. These baubles are caught by another elf that sits on top of the far left reel. Any bauble released by the wheel grants you a bonus: either a coin win, a Spreading Wild or a Surprise Bauble.
On top of every reel you can find an elf and the elf on the far right reel passes the bauble along to make its way to the far left on every spin. Whenever a Wild symbol appears on a reel of which the elf on top of it holds the bauble, the elf drops the bauble on to the reels. Once dropped, the bauble turns the Wild symbol into a Spreading Wild or you are awarded a coin win. The bauble can also take you to Free Spins mode. Despite its medium volatility, Jingle Spins has a modest maximum win of £10,000 per spin. Despite that, it is a great Christmas-themed slot with an engaging game play worth a spin any time of year.
Flowers Christmas Edition
As is clear from the slot game title, this juicy online fruit machine is the Christmas-themed edition of the the classic old school slot Flowers. On Flowers Christmas Edition the design is the same as on the original. The significant difference is that the grid as well as the big-eyed flowers that are the main characters of the game, are covered in snow. In addition to the snow, the grid is decorated with Christmas decorations and instead of a bright sun, the Wild symbol takes the form of a snowflake. Besides its symbol substituting functions, the Wild symbol also pays out on its own on Flowers Christmas Edition.
If you manage to play five of a kind, you will be awarded the very handsome prize of 5,000 times. Like the original, Flowers Christmas Edition features 30 fixed pay lines, Double symbols, Wilds and Free Spins. Free Spins is triggered by playing at least four Free Spins Scatter symbols in one round. This minimum of four Free Spin symbols gives you 10 free rounds. Three Free Spins Scatter symbols might not be enough to grant you free spins, but you will be awarded a x2 win multiplier. If you manage to play four Double Free Spins symbols in one round, you are granted no less than 30 free rounds. And these 30 free rounds come with a win multiplier of an impressive x10.
In Free Spins mode, the Wild symbol appears as an Expanding Wild and can cover the entire reel for even more win changes. If that all was enough, Free Spins goodness, you can retrigger Free Spins mode for even more free rounds. Wild symbols expand in Free Spins and can cover an entire reel for even more win chances. So, attend to your winter garden and make lush winnings this Christmas on Flowers Christmas Edition.