The festive season brings with it some exciting and new pokies to mark this time of the year. Just like presents wrapped and piled up under a Christmas Tree, game providers gifted us with a number of festive game releases in 2021.
Today, we will be taking a quick look at what we think are the best three Christmas pokies released this year.
This is without taking anything away from the popular Festive themed pokies released in the previous years. Some that come to mind would be Christmas Carol Megaways, Secrets of Christmas, Festive Indulgence and Aloha Christmas.
Let’s sleigh the 2021 festive releases!
Santa’s Wonderland
Starting off this merry festive game releases list is the one and only Santa himself in Santa’s Wonderland by Pragmatic Play.
This game is set in Santa’s workshop. In the background, we can see a lot of gift boxes along with the icon clock marking midnight.
Santa’s Wonderland comes with a massive eight by eight grid, clearing setting the tone that this game revolves around presents. Moreover, it is a cluster grid game where players need to hit five symbols connected horizontally or vertically for a payout.
Players cannot miss out on the colourful screen and Christmas cheer, along with colourful baubles. When it comes to symbols, there are four colourful baubles which are the lower-paying symbols. Starting off from the blue, green, red and orange bauble respectively.
Things start getting more interesting with the symbols of the traditional presents. The wooden plane, the wooden train and ultimately the teddy bear which is the highest paying symbol in this game.
Santa himself is the WILD in this game and he can substitute for all symbols. The same WILD symbol can connect to form multiple winning combinations with different symbols.
The great tumble feature makes an appearance in this game. Winning combinations are paid out and replaced with new symbols. This means that you can add a little extra to a win if the tumble is kind.
Apart from being a fun and festive game to try out, it can result in some merry wins of up to 7,500x your stake. Watch out as it is a high volatility game.
Jingle Ways MegaWays
Festive cheer is finally here and Santa is on his way, this time with Jingle Ways Megaways by Red Tiger.
This merry and bright game comes with 117,649 win ways. To land a winning combination players need to get three or more matching symbols on adjacent reels starting from the first reel.
Jingle Ways MegaWays comes with the all-time favourite Thumble Feature. So whenever you have a winning combination, those symbols are removed and replaced with other symbols. This ultimately means that you can land various winning combinations from just one spin.
The best part about this game is that the man in red himself can randomly appear on the reels and present a gift that awards special features. The gift can be either one of the below:
- Mega Wilds – these cover an entire reel. Up to four Mega Wilds can land simultaneously and can only appear on the middle four reels.
- Festive Reels – this removes all the low paying symbols from the panel when activated, hence resulting in a guaranteed win.
- Raining Wilds – as the name implies, a random number of wild symbols are sprinkled over the four middle reels for a guaranteed win.
- Multiplier Boost – this can only be triggered while the free spins bonus round is active.
Free Spins Feature
The Free Spins feature deserves its own limelight in this game. This is triggered by landing three or more Scatter symbols, which are the snow globe Free Spin symbols, anywhere on the reels. Three scatters award eight Free Spins. During this Free Spins if you manage to land more scatter symbols you will be awarded two extra Free Spins for each.
Being a festive and fun game, players need to keep in mind that Jingle Ways Megways is a highly volatile game. Players will get frequent wins even though they might not be the biggest win yet. The highest win is 10,500x your total stake per spin.
For those players looking up the ultimate Christmas themed game, Jingle Way Megaways will surely not disappoint. Are you ready to have a Jingle Ways time?
Spinions Xmas Party
The last of the festive game releases but surely not the least. We could not leave this one out of the best new releases with a festive theme for 2021. Spinions have done it again this time by leaving the beach and heading to a snowy Christmas party. Here we are referring to none other than the Spinions Xmas Party by Quickspin.
This game is actually a far cry from the New Zealandish festive season. The background screen is very simply designed and it’s covered in snow. The Spinions themselves are wearing all sorts of scarves and jumpers.
Set on five reels and three rows, the Spinions Xmas Party comes with 25 fixed pay lines. No Spinions fun party is complete without the Sticky Wild Respins and Sticky Wilds in the Free Spins Bonus.
During the game, the Spinions appear as a Wild symbol. Landing five of them pay back 20x the bet. Also, the Spinion Wild symbols substitute for all other symbols except the Bonus Scatter symbol.
The Bonus Scatter Symbol can appear on reels one, three, and five. Landing three Bonus Scatter Symbols triggers 10 Free Spins.
Sticky Wild Respins
When two or more Spinion Wilds land on the reels, the Sticky Wild Respins are triggered. The Wild symbols stay sticky for the duration of the ReSpins. If you manage to land another Wild symbol, this will remain sticky and another ReSpin is triggered. The feature ends when no new Spinions are added.
Free Spins Feature
When landing three Bonus Scatter symbols on a single spin, the Spinions Xmas Party Free Spins Feature is triggered. This means that you will be awarded 10 Free Spins! Any Spinion Wilds landing during the Free Spins Bonus stays sticky for the duration of the Free Spins.
Are you ready to join our favourite orange dudes and dudettes?
Playing Responsibly during the festive season
Whilst wishing you a spectacular festive season, we also wish to take this opportunity to remind you to keep the fun in the game.
At SkyCity Online Casino you can find a number of tools at your disposal in order to play responsibly. It is important to set limits for yourself so that you will not get in the habit of betting money that you cannot afford to risk.
Playing at an online casino is a form of entertainment and should never be considered as a way of generating income.
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