The Top 5 Winter Themed Slots
As summer and autumn give way to winter, Christmas and New Year festivities bring some cheer to the colder, darker months. Seasonal online games offer another way to enjoy the time of year, with many slots built around Christmas and winter settings. The original review selected these as its top 5 online slots with winter themes:
The Top 5 Winter Slot Games
The original review selected 5 winter slots, each 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 carry all 5.
Jingle Spin
NetEnt offers several slots with a winter theme, and Jingle Spin leads the group here. This online slot game uses 5 reels and 20 pay lines, pairing a bright Christmas setting with fully animated presentation. The original review reports a 96.48% RTP and medium variance. Santa appears beside the reels, hauling on a creaky old wooden lever to set them turning as baubles appear above each one, adding to the festive scene.
Santa’s dwarf helpers toss baubles into gift boxes, with the feature offering up to 50 free spins. Wilds, additional free spins or wins of up to 2,500 coins may appear, creating several different ways for a round to pay.
Frost Dragon
GamePlay Interactive is the developer behind Frost Dragon. Across 5 reels and 20 pay lines, the game places players beside the fearsome dragon in a frozen mountain landscape, where its win-focused theme promises a little warmth for a winter wallet.
A key feature is the tumbling reels mechanic, which activates after a win: winning symbols vanish and replacements fall into place, leaving room for further wins on the same spin. The game also includes free spins, which combine with tumbling reels and can award multipliers worth up to 15x the win.
GamePlay Interactive did not provide an RTP for this slot. That review described it as medium variance, while noting the game’s range of ways to win.
Yeti: Battle of the Greenhat Peak slot
Thunderkick Gaming’s catalogue had gained attention as its slots grew more advanced, according to the review. This title has 5 reels and 11 pay lines, with a stated RTP of 96.1% and medium variance. Its Himalayan setting centres on the Yeti; players spin through the eerie, icy mountains in pursuit of wins.
The ‘Wild Attack’ re-spin can be triggered with 2 scatters. If pay lines show no win, between 1 and 3 Sticky wilds stay in place for the re-spin.
A ‘Wild Attack Meter’ also collects 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 state the variance. This video slot has 5 reels and 20 pay lines. Its icy look is built around frosted reels rather than mountains, Yetis, dragons or Christmas dwarves.
Each winning combination can trigger a re-spin. Before it begins, 1 symbol from that combination is moved into storage and frozen. Collecting 3 different symbols activates ‘Silver Super Spin’: the reels then use only those 3 symbols, opening the possibility of multiple 3, 4 and 5-symbol wins across all 20 pay lines.
The ‘Gold Super’ spin becomes available when you collect 2 symbols; this time, only those 2 appear on the reels, which can build toward larger wins. Collecting 1 symbol in each of all 3 spots produces 20 combinations of 5 symbols for the game’s biggest wins.
Wolves! Wolves! Wolves!
Playtech released this slot in celebration of the Native American winter wolf. Its setting is the snowy mountains of the northern USA, and the layout features 5 reels with between 40 and 100 pay lines. The wolf is the central figure in this video slot.
Wolf symbols appear in stacks of 2, 3, 4 and 5. A wild symbol can connect with other symbols and help join line wins alongside stacked wolves. Both the wolf and wild symbols are among the game’s highest-paying combinations.
Landing larger wins may require waiting for the Mystic Totem feature to trigger at random. It can expand the 5x3 slots to as high as 5x9, putting 9 symbols on each reel and offering a chance to win 3,750x your bet.
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