Santa’s Gift (Endorphina)

Santa’s Gift Review

The 2022 Christmas season had many interesting releases. This review will cover a 2022 Christmas release. It’s called Santa’s Gift, and it takes place on a classic 5x3 setup with 10 paylines. The paylines aren’t fixed, so you can choose how many of them you want to play with per spin.

The theme is as straightforward as you’d expect, and the production values are only slightly above average. They’re elegant, but there aren’t any major fireworks, which might disappoint a couple of players.

There’s no official word on the game’s volatility, but we estimate it to be medium-high. The top win is 5,000x your bet, and you can dip in for many different bet levels between £0.01 and £45. The theoretical RTP is 96.06%, which is very slightly above average.

Santa’s Gift Slot Features

The paytable offers a set of 8 pay symbols, and there’s an even 4-4 split between low pays and high pays. For the former, there are card ranks from Jacks to Aces, which will all bring you 5x your bet for a five-of-a-kind combo. For the latter, there are thematic symbols with sleighs, baubles, stars and bells. Bells are the top symbols, and they are worth 25x your bet for a full set.

You can also look forward to three special symbols - Santa Wilds, Cottage Scatters and Gift symbols. Santa Wilds can substitute for any of the pay symbols to help you complete winning combinations, and they can appear as Stacked on any of the reels in both the base game and during free spins.

Land 3 Cottage Scatters on the game’s three middle reels to trigger the Free Spins feature with a total of 8 free spins. Retriggers are available, too, and only high pays and specials can land during free spins!

If you find 6 or more Gift symbols on the reels, you’ll trigger the Bonus Game, which actually more or less follows the classic Hold and Win formula. During the Bonus Game, you can get additional Gift symbols and Pine Cone symbols. While the former are there to net you prizes, the latter will keep the reels spinning. You’ll always get 3 respins to begin with, and you can reset the counter by finding Gift symbols on the board.

Green Gift symbols come with smaller rewards that are always between 1x and 16x your bet, while you’ll get much more by landing Yellow Gift symbols. Each of those will bring you 20x, 50x, or 150x your bet! And, if you manage to fill the entire board with Git symbols, you’ll get the game’s top prize worth 5,000x your bet!

Finally, you can also try to boost your wins with the Gamble feature, which follows the usual gamble formula in that it’s all about trying to beat the dealer’s card.

Review Summary

If you’re looking for a Hold and Win slot with a Christmas theme, Santa’s Gift is certainly a good choice. It’s not innovative in any way, but it can certainly bring you that nice bit of peace and quiet that we’re all looking for during the Christmas period!