Santa's Great Gifts

While Santa is the star associated with many online slots games, this one stands out from the large collections of festive games for a few reasons. Santa's Great Gifts features the bearded man himself on the right of the board, clutching his sack that often contains a selection of goodies. This game comes with a cluster mechanic, which means that any matching symbols will be removed from play so that more can drop in from the top. Finally, there are no pay lines to talk about, as symbols can match in any position, as long as either or more are in view.

Santa's Great Gifts was produced by Pragmatic Play and includes a user interface that many punters will instantly recognise. In many ways, this slot is similar to popular releases such as Sweet Bonanza, which also has a Christmas rendition, simply known as Sweet Bonanza Xmas. Santa's Great Gifts also features an ante bet, which is common for games produced by Pragmatic Play. 

The standard symbols in Santa's Great Gifts are represented by baubles, which are represented by different colours and playing card suits. There is a blue diamond bauble, a green club bauble, a red heart bauble, and a pink spade bauble. Premiums are shown as a cup of hot chocolate, a candy cane, a Christmas tree cookie, a gingerbread man, and a snow globe. If 12 or more of these appear during the same spin, players can be awarded 10x, 12x, 15x, 25x, and 50x, respectively.

While there is no wild symbol in Santa's Great Gifts, multiplier symbols come in a variety of different colours. The last symbol to touch on is the scatter symbol, represented by Santa himself, which is linked to the main bonus mode.

As previously mentioned, a cascade mechanic is included within Santa's Great Gifts. There are also different coloured presents that can appear in the colours red, blue, purple, and green, which act as multipliers. They can display a value of 2x to 100x on them, which will then be applied to any potential winnings at the end of the cascade.

There is also a free spins mode in Santa's Great Gifts, which can be triggered if four or more scatter symbols appear during the same spin. Landing 4, 5, or 6 scatters will award players with 10, 15, or 20 spins respectively, with level 1 being the starting point in all instances. Levels are based on a collect mechanic, with all of the multiplier gifts offering progress towards the next stage.

Levels 2, 3, and 4 can be unlocked if a total of 6, 10, and 14 gifts are collected. During these stages, additional gift multipliers can appear with values of 8x to 100x, 15x to 100x, or 50x to 100x, in that order. Landing 3 or more scatter symbols can award players with an additional five spins in this mode. Finally, there is an ante bet, with 1.25x the stake size offering double the chance to trigger the bonus, which can also be bought directly. The bonus costs 100x, 200x, 300x, or 400x the bet, respectively, depending on whether players would like to start on level 1, 2, 3, or 4.

Out of all the festive-themed slots available to play, Santa's Great Gifts has a few aspects that make it one to consider. Many punters are fans of the cascading symbols mechanic, alongside the removal of fixed paylines, with icons matching anywhere in view!