Secret Santa lives up to its name thanks to the 7 mystery features. They're all triggered at random and offer a variety of goodies. The treats are as follows:
- Wild Reels – Up to 3 reels will be turned wild.
- Wild Boost – A randomly chose symbol will become wild.
- Free Spins – You'll be awarded 5 free spins. All winning spins are boosted by a 3x multiplier and trebled.
- Mystery Multiplier – Your wins will be boosted by a multiplier of either 5x or 10x.
- Dashing Wilds – Up to 4 dashing wilds will land on the reels, turning wherever they land into wilds.
- Scatter Spree – The chosen symbol will pay out as if it is a scatter – i.e. they don't have to land on successive reels to create a payout.
- Rolling Reels – Winning symbols will be replaced by those directly above offering another chance to win. The more consecutive Rolling Reels spins you have the bigger the multiplier. This can reach up to 12x.
Look out too for when you land a 5-of-a-kind win in the base game - when this happens, the successful symbols will be replaced by another symbol to create another 5-of-a-kind payout. Wilds don't count here though. All these features, combined with the 1,024 ways to win game engine, keep the pace as quick as Santa's reindeer. In fact, the 5-of-a-kind double up hits more often than you'd imagine.
In terms of visuals, Secret Santa is a pretty lavish affair - set against a snowy, chocolate box, cityscape, the reels include a selection of festive images. Look out for Christmas puddings, turkeys with trimmings, stockings, log fire, presents under the Christmas tree and of course Santa himself. Find 5 of Father Christmas and you'll win 500 times your line bet. There are also standard wilds and scatters as well as playing card suit symbols to round out the symbols.
The action plays out to a suitably jaunty Christmas-themed backing track, complete with bells and fanfares. The variance in Secret Santa is on the high side of medium - the randomly triggered features didn't hit as often as we expected them to but delivered decent amount on the occasions they did arrive. There’s a whopping 4,600 times your stake available if you’re lucky!
Secret Santa is a lovely looking slot that also offers an impressive array of features - you may not get precisely what's on your wish list but if the luck is with you there are plenty of goodies to enjoy here. If you like Christmas themed slots, Microgaming offer you Happy Holidays with Playtech offering you Ghosts of Christmas.