All About Christmas

The upcoming holiday season has brought with it numerous slot machines featuring the theme around it, and a relatively fresh developer in the game, Golden Rock Studios decided to join the trend and create the All About Christmas game!

Enter the warmly-decorated home, as it hides plenty of Stacked Symbols and Free Spins for you to use and have a real holiday celebration!

Theme and Symbols

The game comes with a Christmas theme, and upon loading the slot, you will notice that there's no other sub-theme present here.

It is a bit simpler game that we are used to when it comes to titles with this theme, but it is still nicely executed.

The reels are set in front of a fireplace, as well as a great brick-wall seen on both sides, with plenty of garlands that can be found around. 

On both sides of the transparent reels, there are two decorated Christmas trees, as well as two Christmas stockings, while in front, you will find numerous Christmas presents.

On the reels, there's a pack of mixed symbols, usually corresponding with a theme, but there are also some playing card symbols in different colours, so you will see 10 to A symbols with a little bit of snow on top, as well as a cake, bells, Christmas tree, snowman and Santa Claus. 

Betting Options and Other Functions

This Holiday-themed title features a reel set of 5 reels and 4 rows, offering 40 pay lines.

It is a medium volatility game with a return to player percentage of 96.15%, and a maximum prize of 2000x the stake.

But, before you begin spinning the reels, you need to set your bets that range from $0.40 per spin, going up to $80.

When it comes to symbols, 10, J, Q, K and A are the lowest-rewarding symbols paying from 0.37x to 1.25x the stake for five in a combination.

The highest-rewarding symbol is the Santa, paying up to 5x the stake for five of a kind.

Special Features

Speaking of symbols, the game also boasts some special symbols that help you either get some bigger winning combos or trigger a feature.

The Wild symbol is represented by a yellow Christmas present with red ribbon and not only does it land on all reels, and substitute for the regular symbols, but it also lands in stacks!

Should you land a full stack of wilds on the middle reel, it will come with a random multiplier between x2 and x5 in the base game.

Now, pay attention to the Santa's gift sack symbol, as if you land a full stack of it on the first reels, you will trigger the Hold & Win feature!

When that happens, all bonus symbols that landed on the reels will become sticky, while you will be awarded respins that will keep coming as long as you land at least 1 new bonus symbol.

If you manage to fill the whole screen, you will trigger the Free Spins feature!

If that occurs, you will get 8 extra spins, that you can retrigger during this special round. 

But, there's more!

Here, the full stack of the Wild symbol on the middle reel also rewards a multiplier, only this time, it comes with a higher value - x3, x5, x7 or x10. 

Besides, if you win less than 10x your stake in total from the free spins round, you will get another round of new 8 extra spins!

Verdict

For some punters, the fact that a slot machine comes with a Christmas theme may be enough, however, since there is an abundance of these games on the market, the competition is quite tough, so this title from Golden Rock Studios may seem like a bit too simple and lacking details.

Nevertheless, it comes with simple gameplay, and an unusual way to trigger the free spins round, which may come as both appealing and off-putting.