Casino Slots To Play This Christmas Season

Christmas-themed casino slots are a special treat on the menu of online gambling venues that strive to offer something thrilling to every style of player. In 2021, the most wondrous time of the year, as always, brings good cheer, lots of smiles and laughter, and, of course, plenty of new games to tap into the festive atmosphere of the holiday season.

Like one popular song says, Christmas is a feeling and it’s not just about presents by the tree, stockings stuffed with candies, and the wonderful aroma of warm gingerbread. Indeed, it is about having fun, which for a great many people across the world means spinning the reels, among other things. For the merriest and most exciting December ever, here are the best online slots, including the hottest US-friendly titles, with Santa, snowmen, reindeers, and all sorts of rewarding extras able to deliver truly epic wins.

Big Santa

A great Christmas present for all RTG fans, Big Santa is a high volatility adventure that pays up to 50,000x line bet. The name of this game is not a figurative exaggeration – Santa is really big, appearing as 2x2 or 3x3 icons to keep company with Grandma, Happy Elf, and wild Rudolf, another three oversized symbols. As for bonus features, this 5-reel and 25-line online slot offers free spins with multipliers – 3, 4, or 5 scattered Bags chock-full of presents trigger 10,15, or 20 rounds respectively while a random multiplier between 2x and 5x is awarded at every spin. The betting range starts at $0.25 while the maximum stake is capped at $6.25.

Moon Princess: Christmas Kingdom

As you have probably already guessed, this brand new creation of Play’ n Go is a Christmas edition of popular Moon Princess. Based on the same 5x5 grid as its predecessor, this online slot boasts a greater winning potential, letting players take home up to 15,000x bet, which can range between $0.20 and $100. Embarking on the journey into the realm of the Christmas Kingdom can bring up to 150 free spins, wherein players can choose one of the three options, depending on whether they prefer a bigger number of spins with a lower potential or fewer spins but greater potential.

The famed powers of Love, Star, and Storm are triggered at random on initial spins with no winning combos, so punters can benefit from the magical transformation of symbols, added wilds, or removed from the grid icons. The full advantage of cascading reels is concentrated in the Clear Grid Prize available in the base game – clearing the entire grid of icons delivers a 50x total bet plus the prize awarded by a multiplier on that spin.

Christmas Journey

Launched on the last day of November, Christmas Journey is another US-friendly casino slot worth attention. Incredibly engaging, this 5x5 cluster-based game from Nucleus is enhanced with the special Holiday meter for delivering free spins. To fill all the cells of the meter, players need to get a winning cluster (at least five of a kind) of each of the ten regular symbols.

To make things even more exciting, during the feature, the central column on the grid will consist of identical icons, delivering a guaranteed win. Multipliers are building by 1 and for the last free round, they can reach 10x, making the eventual prize truly epic. While the max payout of 161x total bet does not sound tremendous, the max bet of $100 still can make it an imposing $16,100.

Stay Frosty

Betsoft invites all players to celebrate this year's holiday season with an aromatic cup of hot chocolate and Stay Frosty, one of the brand’s latest action-packed casino slots enriched with 100 pay lines. With an RTP of 96.21% and a maximum win of $92,248, this 5-reel title is likely to be in high demand in the upcoming period, all the more so, its range of stakes can suit both low-rollers and whales, starting at $0.25 and going up to $100.

Cheery Snowman plays the role of a wild, appearing on reels 2,3, and 4 and remaining sticky for two next spins if it is a part of the winning combination. Merry Reindeer is a scatter that awards prizes regardless of pay lines and triggers the coveted free spins feature to surprise players with up to 20 bonus rounds and up to 12 sticky wilds. The most impatient punters can take advantage of the Buy feature and pay for instant access to free spins and sticky wilds – the costs of 10, 15, or 20 rounds are 65x, 135x, or 225x your current bet respectively.

Buffalo Power: Christmas

Buffalo Power: Christmas is a Ho-Ho-Holiday version of the well-known and widely popular Buffalo Power: Hold and Win with its magnificent animal life and fascinating nature. It is a progressive casino slot with not one but the whole four Jackpots, the Grand top prize delivers a mouth-watering 500x total bet. Made by Playson, this 5-reel 20-line title also includes the free spins feature with multipliers and stacked wilds that magically double all the wins landed during the bonus. Players can join the fest already with $0.20 a spin and increase their wagers all the way to a maximum bet of $100.

Jack Frost

Even though Jack Frost himself may look a little spooky at first glance, you’re gonna love the way he triggers the bonus round to award bunches of coins or free spins to those who can melt the ice blocks! You may also find Santa looking somewhat angry and unfriendly but chances are, your opinion is going to change pretty quickly – at the latest when this scatter icon will bring you 5,10, or 20 free spins. Rival enhanced this online slot with stunning visuals and the Drop feature, meaning that winning icons will disappear from the reels to let the symbols from above fall down and fill the empty positions, creating more opportunities to land a win.

Santa’s Big Bash Megaways

Thanks to Iron Dog Studio, fans of ever-popular Megaways do not need an excuse to throw a bash to celebrate Christmas. Santa’s Big Bash Megaways offers all thrills and chills of very high volatility and a 6-reel playfield that can have between 2 and 7 rows and generate from 64 to 117,649 ways to win. Players can start spinning at $0.20 per round, trying to reach the maximum prize of 25,000x total bet and get their share of the 96.04% of all staked money, which is a payout percentage set for this title.

The Christmas tree is one of the central elements in the whole story because it’s adorned with baubles that grant access to the free spins feature. First, Magic Baubles appear on the reels to activate up to three decorations on the tree, and when their number reaches at least eight, the party can begin. Up to 13 free spins can be awarded but the best part is that starting from 10 baubles, punters also get a multiplier of 2x for 10 and 11 spins and 3x for 12 and 13 spins.

In its turn, Rudie the Reindeer is in charge of creating better chances of triggering free spins because its appearance brings between 2 and 4 extra wilds, up to 3 positions on the Christmas tree, and a re-spin without losing the latter. Things are getting even better in the free spins bonus since Rudie has powers to award up to 4 free rounds and lock the reels with 7 symbols, granting one additional multiplier.

Naughty Or Nice 3

In contrast to all other titles represented in this article, Naughty Or Nice 3 is not the most recent release launched in 2021 but overlooking this immensely popular online slot would be a big mistake. Introduced to the gambling community three years ago and themed around a bikini car wash, it is the right choice for everyone who prefers spending Christmas on the exotic beach in the shade of palm trees, enjoying the company of stunning babes.

This 30-line game is stuffed with free spins that can be retriggered, however, the main attraction comes in the form of Progressive Jackpots, which are triggered at random and can be won at the conclusion of any round. If you still haven’t tried the most exciting version of RTG’s Naughty Or Nice series, this Christmas season is the right time to give it a shot.

Christmas Big Bass Bonanza

After Big Bass Bonanza, Bigger Bass Bonanza, and the Megaways version of this slot, the Christmas edition of this fantastic fishy story finally hit the virtual floors of online casinos. Beautifully written by Pragmatic Play and based on the standard 5x3 reel layout with 10 pay lines, this high volatility game offers an awesome RTP of 96.71% and a maximum win of 2,100x bet worth spinning for. In addition to that, everyone can choose their most comfortable pace of playing given the extensive range of wagers that starts at just $0.10 and rises to $250.

Quite unsurprisingly, Santa is wild while Bass is the scatter able to bring 10, 15, or 20 free spins. During the feature, fish-playing icons take random values that can lead to really exciting wins, plus, each fourth wild symbol to appear on the screen will re-trigger the bonus, awarding 10 additional free spins and increasing the multiplier by 2x. 3x, and 10x for the first, second, and third retrigger accordingly.

Reel Crime: Stealing Christmas

Set to be released in the middle of December, Reel Crime: Stealing Christmas promises to be the next Rival-powered smash hit. More akin to a captivating movie (just like the majority of casino slots from this software provider), this highly entertaining game features the infamous diabolical duo of Remy and Raoul with the only difference that this time the bumbling burglars are plotting to break into the Richmore family mansion.

In the base game, players have access to the first three floors of the 5-reel mansion and 243 ways to win. However, landing 3 scatter icons opens the blinds on the fourth floor and initiates the Protect the House round with 1024 winning combinations. Hitting scatters during that round not only further expands the reels, opening the blinds on the fifth floor and offering 3,125 ways to win but also leads players into the Penthouse Mayhem free spins bonus. This low volatility game is also enriched with drop icons and wild multipliers, as well as a decent RTP of 95,43% and a broad choice of bets that range from $0.25 to $62.50.