Holidays are always a fun time of year at online casinos, as games developers release a wide range of themed slots. Around Christmas, we always see plenty of new games that are based on Santa, elves, presents, and various other Christmas motifs.
Christmas slots usually present operators with the chance to get really creative – but, sometimes they just run out of ideas. This leads to the development of ‘Christmas Edition’ slots, which are basically rereleases of existing games.
For example:
Flowers: Christmas Edition
This is an upcoming release from Net Entertainment. It is pretty much the original Flowers slot – but with a little bit of snow scattered on the screen. All of the flower symbols are coated in snow, and the wild symbol is a large snowflake instead of a sun. While the graphics are somewhat different from the original, the gameplay is exactly the same.
There are double symbols, which are two symbols that occupy a single position on the reels. This helps players hit winning combinations more easily, and even allows players to hit ten-of-a-kind wins! Net Entertainment picked a good game to turn into a Christmas Edition. So, while we could have liked to see a bit more variance, the original game is great enough on its own.
Christmas Reactors
Christmas Reactors is a Microgaming slot that is based on the original Chain Reactors slots game. This game is quite different from the original, with all new graphics. In the original, the symbols consisted to various different smiley faces but Christmas Reactors is full of holiday symbols, like Santa, reindeer, turkeys and elves.
Both of these games operate in the same way. The symbols fall from the top of the screen and if they land in a group of four or more, a prize is awarded. The more symbols in the group, the bigger the prize. The winning symbols then disappear and new symbols fall into their places to create even more winning combinations.
While the gameplay is exactly the same, we appreciate the lengths to which Microgaming went to make Christmas Reactors and Chain Reactors look completely different.
Wild Gambler: Arctic Adventure
Wild Gambler: Arctic Adventure is an Ash Gaming online slot, which is based on the original Wil Gambler that is set on safari. Like Christmas Reactors and Chain Reactors, both games in this series have the same gameplay but completely different graphics.
Instead of lions, rhinos and zebras, Arctic Adventure has penguins, polar bears and moose!
Both games have locked wilds which help players trigger some very generous wins.
