The Top 5 Winter-Themed Slots
As summer and autumn give way to winter, Christmas and New Year celebrations bring cheer to the colder, darker months. Seasonal online games offer another way to enjoy the time of year, and many slots use Christmas and winter settings. The review selected these as its top 5 online slots with winter themes:
Top 5 Winter Slot Games
The review selected 5 winter slots, all released in 2018 and listed for desktop, mobile, and tablet play. It noted that an online casino offering games from NetEnt, Gameplay, Thunderkick, Just For The Win, and Playtech would have all 5.
Jingle Spin
NetEnt has several winter-themed slots, and Jingle Spin leads the selection. This online slot game has 5 reels and 20 pay lines, pairing a bright Christmas setting with fully animated visuals. The review reports a 96.48% RTP and medium variance. Santa stands beside the reels, pulling a creaky old wooden lever to set them spinning, while baubles appear above each reel to complete the festive scene.
Santa’s dwarf helpers toss baubles into gift boxes, and the feature can award up to 50 free spins. Wilds, extra free spins, or wins of up to 2,500 coins may appear, giving the round several ways to pay.
Frost Dragon
GamePlay Interactive developed Frost Dragon. The game spans 5 reels and 20 pay lines, placing players beside a fearsome dragon in a frozen mountain landscape. Its focus on wins promises a little warmth for a winter wallet.
A key feature is the tumbling reels mechanic, which activates after a win: winning symbols disappear and replacements fall into place, allowing further wins on the same spin. The game also offers free spins, which combine with tumbling reels and may award multipliers of up to 15x the win.
GamePlay Interactive did not publish an RTP for this slot. The review described it as medium variance and noted its range of ways to win.
Yeti: Battle of the Greenhat Peak slot
The review reported that Thunderkick Gaming’s catalogue had attracted attention as its slots became more sophisticated. This title features 5 reels and 11 pay lines, with a stated RTP of 96.1% and medium variance. Set in the Himalayas, it centers on the Yeti as players spin through eerie, icy mountains in search of wins.
The ‘Wild Attack’ re-spin can be triggered by 2 scatters. If the pay lines show no win, between 1 and 3 Sticky wilds remain in place for the re-spin.
A ‘Wild Attack Meter’ also gathers bonus symbols as it advances through levels. Filling the meter starts the free spins round, with up to 10 sticky wilds on the reels; these guarantee multiple 4- and 5-symbol combination wins.
Icy Gems
Just For The Win designed Icy Gems. As with Frist Dragon, the studio had not announced an RTP, and JFTW did not specify the variance. This video slot has 5 reels and 20 pay lines. Its icy look comes from frosted reels rather than mountains, Yetis, dragons, or Christmas dwarves.
Each winning combination can trigger a re-spin. Before it starts, 1 symbol from the winning combination moves into storage and freezes. Collecting 3 different symbols activates ‘Silver Super Spin’: only those 3 symbols then appear on the reels, creating the possibility of multiple 3-, 4-, and 5-symbol wins across all 20 pay lines.
The ‘Gold Super’ spin becomes available after collecting 2 symbols. Only those 2 symbols then appear on the reels, which can build toward bigger wins. Collecting 1 symbol in each of all 3 spots produces 20 combinations of 5 symbols for the game’s largest wins.
Wolves! Wolves! Wolves!
Playtech released this slot to celebrate the Native American winter wolf. Set in the snowy mountains of the northern USA, it features 5 reels and between 40 and 100 pay lines. The wolf is the video slot’s central figure.
Wolf symbols can appear in stacks of 2, 3, 4, or 5. A wild symbol can connect with other symbols and help link line wins alongside stacked wolves. The wolf and wild symbols are among the game’s highest-paying combinations.
Bigger wins may depend on the Mystic Totem feature triggering at random. It can expand the 5x3 slots to as large as 5x9, placing 9 symbols on each reel and offering a chance to win 3,750x your bet.
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