Our Favourite New Christmas Slots For 2020
25th Dec 2020, 11:18:55 AM
For many people, Christmas is the biggest day of the year. Millions of us love the build-up to the big day and enjoy all the food, presents, music and celebrations. If you’re keen to play some online slots over the holidays, why not try some new Christmas-themed slots? We’ve got plenty of festive slots that have come out this year and we’ve put together a list of our favourites below. Have a read and see which ones appeal to you, then start playing!
Christmas Gift Rush
This is a delightfully merry online slot from Habanero. It looks great thanks to its cosy Christmas design and its colourful graphics, and it’s a lot of fun to play thanks to its special features. The grid is 3x3 in size and has just three paylines - one covering each row. When you start playing, only the middle payline is activate.
Whenever you win, a random reel nudges one position down and the top row gets activated. If you win again, you get a second nudge and the bottom row gets activated. You keep on getting nudges so long as winning combinations are produced. The third nudge gives you a x1 multiplier that increases for every consecutive nudge after that. You can purchase the Nudge Feature for a cost of 30x your bet - do this and the feature will trigger on every spin.
Book Of Xmas
Book Of Xmas is an online slot from Spinomenal that’s set in a wintry landscape on a cold, dark night. Christmas-themed symbols, such as a reindeer, a snowman, snacks for Santa and, of course, Sant himself, appear on the reels. There are 10 paylines in total and since the slot is highly volatile, you may have to play for a while before scoring a win.
Look out for the festive book - this acts as the slot’s wild and can substitute for all other symbols, plus it’s a scatter symbol too. If three books land anywhere, you’ll be awarded 10 free spins. Before the free spins round gets underway, one of the standard symbols is chosen at random. While free spins are being used, whenever the chosen symbol lands it will expand to fill the reel it’s on if doing so helps you to win. If you want, you can purchase a trigger of the free spins round for a cost of 100x your bet.
Merry Scary Christmas
Most Christmas slots are joyful and uplifting - not this one. Merry Scary Christmas is a surprisingly dark Christmas slot featuring a demon-like creature posing as Santa Claus. It’s developed by Mascot Gaming and is a medium volatility slot with an RTP of 95.2% and 10 paylines you can win on.
When playing this slot, you’ll want to look out for gift symbols. There are five different ones that can land on the reels. Whenever five in total land on the same spin, each one will reveal a prize: a cash payout, a wild symbol with a random multiplier or some free spins. During the free spins round, every spin adds one extra gift symbol to the reels, boosting your chances of earning more rewards.
Christmas Megaways
Christmas Megaways is a charming festive slot set in a picturesque winter wonderland. What makes this IronDog slot appealing is that it uses the Megaways system, giving you up to a staggering 117,649 ways to win on every spin. Whenever you win, a tumble occurs and winning symbols disappear and are replaced by symbols that fall down from above, giving you another chance to win.
Get four or more tumbles in a row and you’ll get to play the slot’s free spins round. Earn up to 14 spins and while using these, if a reel has seven symbols on it, it will have seven symbols for the rest of the round. You can win extra spins, too. During both the base game and the free spins round, look out for wilds and multiplier wilds that double your payouts. Christmas Megaways is a medium volatility slot and has a good RTP of 96.2%.
Let It Snow
Last on our list of new Christmas slots for 2020 is Let It Snow from Hacksaw Gaming. Set in a beautifully presented snowy environment, the slot uses an extra large 6x6 grid and has emoji-style symbols appearing on the reels. There aren’t any paylines - you win by forming clusters of six or more matching symbols that are touching horizontally or vertically.
The slot has a pretty good RTP of 96.42%. There are three special features that can help boost your balance. If five wreath symbols land, the needle in the logo’s compass spins and more wreath symbols are added in the direction the needle’s pointing. If three red present symbols appear, you’re given 10 free spins with wreaths landing more often and just one wreath required for extra symbols to be added. Finally, if three blue present symbols land, you get to play a bonus game where you can spin a wheel up to 50 times to receive cash prizes.