Brutal Santa

Do you think you know everything about Santa? Well, this side of his you surely couldn’t have imagined!

This slightly different, but quite fun version of Santa is created by Evoplay Entertainment, as the gaming development studio gears up for the festive season!

Rock’n’Roll is in the house!

Forget about jovial elves, happy reindeer and pixies...

...this Santa is tougher and rougher, but with a sack full of festive goodies!

Land a winning combination across the three reels, and Santa pulls presents from his bag. These boost wins, trigger respins, or award free games.

Since it was built in HTML5, this online game can also be played on mobile and tablet devices with an excellent vertical view.

Theme & Design

If you are searching for winter holiday games, Brutal Santa is definitely worth trying since…

…it comes with cartoonish visuals with Christmas-themed symbols and decorations, but also with interesting icons, special effects and lots of presents in the background.

However:

Don't let a cozy room, lit by a decorated tree and a sleepy Rudolph trick you!

Instead of the gentle version of Santa that we all know, we have a different kind of Santa in the story of this title.

The 3x3 grid of symbols sits within a huge fireplace, and lanterns sway gently in a breeze since Santa decided to use another entrance this time!

Hellish-like Father Christmas has just crashed through the wall on his bike, leaving a gaping hole through which we can see a snowstorm outside.

This tattooed Santa has the obligatory white beard, however, he’s wearing a red bandana and has a wild look in his eyes.

The design quality of the symbols is outstanding and they include baubles, guitars, and knuckle-dusters with Ho Ho Ho written in them.

It’s not only a good-looking game but a great-sounding one as well with a cool guitar riff that rocks as the reels spin.

He might look mean, but fear not, as this guy is still ready to hand out gifts.

Let's see what this is about!

Betting Options

Just nine pay lines across the three reels, which means you win a prize when three identical symbols fill a line.

The minimum stake is 0.09 per spin, with a maximum of 90.00 making the Brutal Santa machine suitable for a wide range of budgets.

Autospin and Turbo modes are available, along with options to use the spacebar on a PC to trigger each spin, play the soundtrack, or just the sound effects, or mute the whole game.

The RTP for this game is 96%, which is good and considered to be about average for an online slot.

The highest possible payout for this title is only 100x your total bet, though.

There are eight basic symbols on this matrix...

…the four baubles pay smaller prizes, while you win more by landing a skull-decorated lighter, the knuckle-dusters, or guitar across a line.

The Christmas stocking, stuffed with a bottle of bourbon, is the most valuable symbol, paying back 30x your total bet.

Santa’s little helper is a beautiful elf lady, representing a Wild symbol.

She acts as all except a bonus symbol to complete combinations, although she doesn’t pay out any direct prizes and only appears on the middle reel.

Players rack up their wins each time Santa takes a present from his sack.

If the player is onto a win, this naughty Santa places the present onto the reels, if not...

...he’ll throw it away!

With each winning gift representing a special bonus, players have seven to unlock throughout the game.

Special Features

You can get SEVEN gifts out of Santa's sack, and they are activated only in the winning round.

The gifts include Bonus symbols, FreeSpins, Multiplier, Random bonus symbols, Respins, Sticky Wilds, Wild.

It's all about presents!

Respins - the winning symbols stay locked on the reels while the rest spin again, potentially creating new winning combinations.

Wild x2 sees a random symbol replaced by multiplier wilds, and any subsequent wins get doubled in value.

Wild x3 is the same, but wins are tripled.

The gift with x2 written on it simply doubles the payout from the win while the x4 gift quadruples the prize.

If Santa pulls the FS gift from the bag, and it’s a winning spin, he treats you to five free spins.

While the initial award is just five bonus games, there are a couple of extra gifts within the round!

The beautiful elf becomes a Chic Wild, transforming into a stacked wild symbol who can fill all three rows of the middle reel.

Santa’s Pitbull dog is a bonus symbol.

If you see it in any place on the triggering spins, five extra spins get added to the total.

If two dogs appear...

...you end up with a total of 15 free games but, you can’t retrigger the round.

But, that's not all!

During the free games, Santa has a whole new bag of gifts: double wilds, a Supercharger that changes low-value symbols to high-paying ones, and wild multipliers.

These combine with existing multipliers to boost payouts by up to 9x.

To Conclude

Fun animations, great theme and lots of colors can bring festive cheer to the good boys and girls who play the Brutal Santa title!

It might not possess the qualities needed to appeal to most experienced gamers, but it offers a new rock'n'roll twist in terms of storyline and design.

Though the highest possible payout for this slot is rather low and can not give you the really big wins...

...multiple gifts from Santa's sack in each winning spin make it a game you won't stop playing.