Christmas Catch Slot Review
Those who think Christmas is one of the most delightful celebration seasons should get familiar with this festive gambling game full of true giving spirit and generous Santa gifts.
There are countless Santa’s reindeer that move on the rooftop to bring you those splendor gifts from Santa Claus. Moreover, some of them multiply your prize amount — by x10 within the base game and by the unlimited growing multiplier during the bonus game.
Gifts Bonus instant cash prizes are unveiled each time the regular win happens, significantly increasing your chances of getting extra income thanks to the sleighs appearing. And up to 117,649 pay lines make wins as frequent as possible.
Christmas Catch General Characteristics
- 64-117,649 pay lines
- 6 reels and 2 - 7 rows
- Extreme Volatility
- RTP: 96.53%
- Hit frequency: 38.2% / 38.1%
- Bet amount: 0.2 EUR - 30 EUR
- Maximum win multiplier: x31,430 (х10,550 in Base Game)
- Maximum win value: 942,900 EUR
- 10 main symbols
- Additional symbols: Wild, Scatter, Gifts Bonus
Christmas Catch Bonus Features
Gifts Bonuses' cash prizes, sleigh multipliers, and free spins are presented here. An explanation of all of those are awaited you in this slot's features review.
Reactions
These are the first things you will see playing this slot. Every winning symbol immediately disappears after the pay line cash prize is credited to the balance.
Sleighs
Each winning reaction or new spin beginning may bring a sleigh, appearing only above the 2 - 5 reels. The sleigh gathers Gifts Bonus cash prizes, walking to the left one reel per step upon each following prize reaction. If there are no more reactions on the playfield or the reindeer's sleigh has successfully collected Santa's gifts above the 2nd reel, they rocket-fly in the sky.
There can be more than just one sleigh on the roof. Moreover, some, during the base game, may multiply gift bonuses by an x10 multiplier. The reindeer's sleigh is also present within the bonus round, granting an unlimitedly growing multiplier. But we'll talk about it in more detail a little bit later.
Gifts Bonus
These appear in places of disappeared winning symbols just before the new ones fall. Their quantity is random, but there has to be at least one prize. The Gifts Bonus cash prizes are awarded for each sleigh on the rooftop at the winning reaction moment.
Wild
Wild is depicted as a Holiday Christmas tree. It substitutes for any other picture, except for the Scatter, to make a winning combination. But Wild is not a paying symbol by itself.
Scatter
This special symbol isn’t a payable one, either. But if at least 3 Scatters lands on the game grid to start the bonus game with 10 free spins. Each next Scatter beyond this minimum quantity adds another 2 FS.
Free Spins
The only difference between the bonus game compared to the base one is the slightly more frequent sleighs appearing and their gradually growing multiplier value, which starts with x1 and then updates one more (+x1) with every new Santa's reindeer with a sleigh appearing. Hence, the sleigh multipliers will be these — x1, x2, x3, and so forth, without any top limit.
Three Scatters landed during the bonus game grant you four extra FS, while each additional Scatter beyond this minimal amount gives two more FS. As in the base game, within the bonus one, Gifts Bonus cash prizes are awarded for each sleigh on the rooftop at the winning reaction moment.
Buy Free Spins
The Bonus Buy function permits you to purchase the FS round with ten free spins instead of waiting for its triggering. It will cost you x100 to the stake.
Win Exchange
Moreover, two additional options let the FS round trigger even without using this buying option.
• Above the x100 win
The first option is possible due to the cash prize equal to x100 by the stake or more. If so, you can exchange the x100 prize amount for 10 FS. So, eventually, this option isn't that different from buying one.
• For the x25 - x100 win
The next option is more profitable due to allowing you to get 10 FS even for x25 to your current stake. There is only one underwater rock in here — activating the bonus FS game isn't guaranteed since this option proposes to play a Lucky Wheel gamble round, where getting the green-colored sector means starting the FS game, whereas hitting the red-colored one makes you lose money.
Our Experience Playing Christmas Catch
So, after all that theoretical part, it's a perfect time to dive into the Christmas Catch slot-playing process. For this special event, we reserved, as usual, €200 to be ready to make €1 bet per spin.
Our first 100 spins brought 41 wins in the base game, including 19 that were less than the currently chosen stake. Overall, the winning sums range was wide, starting with €0.05 and finishing with €18.5. Santa’s sleighs during ten times collected the Christmas gifts, earning us a total €46.75. Winnings were surprisingly frequent. For instance, the most elongated non-wins span was just 7 spins, which is not so bad for the slot with Extreme volatility. But we didn’t trigger the bonus game even once, so the final balance was €184.7.
During the second 100 spins, winning sums ranged within almost the same spectrum — from €0.05 to 15.2. Sadly, their amount fell to 34, while the quantity of those less than €1, on the contrary, increased to 26. The lengthiest gap between wins, this time, became 8 spins. The Gifts Bonuses prizes number increased to 10, bringing us €34.75. The FS round activation never happened. So, the balance amount after the 200th spin was out totaled just €150.3.
Sadly, but this time, the Christmas miracle also didn’t happen, so we didn’t get the bonus game starting even within the last 100 spins, whereas the number of regular wins was 38. As per notorious tradition, most of them, 26, were less than our bet. Their winning sums varied from 0.1 to 5.65. Santa’s sleighs brought us another €20.5. As a result, the final balance was €97.05. Hence, we lost overall €102.95.
Among the main conclusions of this video slot test drive, we can highlight that it sufficiently often brings wins for the Extreme volatility slot, although many of them are not so big. So, high catches are indeed relatively rare here. Also, we didn’t get during the base game any x10 multiplier or the FS round triggering. Moreover, we didn't earn at least a single x25-sized cash prize to get a chance to get the bonus game activation through the Gamble exchange option. So, there is nothing to be surprised by that the balance was slowly falling within the duration of this game.
Here are all the statistics:
Christmas Catch Verdict
So, what to say for the conclusion about this game? This one makes an extraordinary impression due to its popular world-renowned soundtrack, perfectly made graphics, and masterful animations. And on top of all these is a happy giving spirit, bringing the Christmas magic into real life.
If you like presents as much as we do, you will fall in love with Gifts Bonus mechanics, which, thanks to Santa's reindeer, bring you generous prizes in addition to the regular ones. Also, there can be an x10 maximum multiplier within the base game and an unlimited one during the bonus game. Moreover, literally every next sleigh appearing within the bonus game, starting with the second one, grants you guaranteed multiplying the sum of Gifts Bonus prizes you got during free spins. In addition, the FS round is capable of prolonging due to the extra FS.
On the other hand, there are some drawbacks, too. The first is the total domination of low-size payments on this slot paytable. As a result, as we can see, most payouts are even less than stake. Secondly, it's not that rosy about the triggering frequency within the base game of two of the most generous features of this slot — Santa's reindeer and bonus FS game. As you can see from our statistics, sleighs appear not often to be able to increase your income in some crucial way. Free Spins also don't hurry up to share some spirit of festivity and giving with you. Hence, this slot indeed has Extreme volatility that, maybe, makes it possible to grab a huge win but not in that frequent way.
