Jingle all the way – the top Christmas slots for 2020

The season of Santa and presents and all things Christmas (including the awful music in the shopping centres) is here! But Online Casino Review is far more excited to see what the big game developers are putting in our stocking rather than what the malls are putting in their displays.

The magic of online games, especially online slots, is the ease with which they can be adapted and updated to reflect different themes. Many online Christmas slots are just the base games with a bit of tinsel and a Santa hat added – Griffin’s Quest and Aloha Christmas are notable examples. But some developers go all out to bring interesting and thrilling themed slots to the players.

Hawaiian Christmas – Game Art

This is essentially Hawaiian Fruit with a Christmas twist. Instead of Santa, you get a Christmas-themed tiki to oversee your play on this 5×5-reel, cluster pays slots game from Game Art.

It’s a fun little game with wilds, multipliers and free spins but no bonus game.

Holiday Season – Play’n GO

We’re not gonna lie, this online slots game from Play’n GO made us feel a little creepy. It seems to combine all the American holiday themes into one: Christmas, Thanksgiving and New Year in one super-Stepford Wives, perfect suburbia setting. If you think of the cheesiest festive family movie you’ve ever seen and add slots to it – you’d get Holiday Season.

Even the soundtrack made us shudder. It’s as if they raised John Denver from the dead to give an acoustic guitar Christmas performance.

Still, the game is very high end in terms of graphics. With 5 reels and 10 paylines, wilds, scatters and free spins, most players will have fun.

Xmas Joker – Play’n GO

This is a perfect example of how to do a special themed slot. Rather than just pop on some snow and stick in a Santa hat, Play’n GO have brought us the classic Joker slots game with a complete Christmas skin – down to the soundtrack.

We all know this popular online slots game: 3 reels, 5 paylines, scatters, multipliers and free spins – now with a Christmas vibe.

Jingle Bells Power Reels – Red Tiger Gaming

Jingle Bells Power Reels from Red Tiger Gaming is almost aggressively Christmas. You couldn’t get MORE Christmas if you eggnog-drunk kissed Rudolph under the mistletoe.

This 8-reel, 40 payline online slots game is really well designed. The graphics are hyper-realistic and it really does capture the “Joy To The World” Christmas vibe from the opening snow-covered mountain village visuals to the crackling fire and giant tree living room of the base game itself. Every Christmas symbol from the ribbon-style 10, J, Q, K, A to the baubles to the candy canes to the stockings is pure Christmas.

Even jolly Santa Claus makes his incredibly life-like way across the screen on a regular basis.

And ol’ Saint Nick is not there just for show. His bag of goodies brings you mega and raining wilds, multipliers, winning reels and free spins aplenty.

Santa’s Farm – Game Art

Not quite as Christmassy as other games but great fun to play, Santa’s Farm from Game Art takes you to Santa’s farm where you get to meet all the animals.

This is a 5-reel, 5 payline online slots game that is simple but entertaining and bring an added bet bonus game to the wilds, scatters and free spins.

Merry Xmas – Play’n GO

Featuring all the classic Christmas symbols of Santa, reindeer, candles, bells and more this online slots game from Play’n GO took me back to the old Advent calendars of childhood. Even the soundtrack from Merry Xmas is a nod to old-fashioned Xmas joy.

With 5 reels and 15 paylines, Merry Xmas keeps the wins rolling and wilds, scatters and multipliers keep the action going. Line up three Xmas present symbols and you could unwrap up 150x your total bet.

A Christmas Carol – Betsoft

Stepping into the classic Charles Dickens Christmas story, A Christmas Carol online slots game from Betsoft brings the ever-grouchy Ebenezer Scrooge into the Christmas slots market.

It’s a simple game with 5 reels and 25 paylines but it features some pretty cool wilds, scatters and free spins that all hero the ghosts of Christmas. Hit three or more of the same ghosts and trigger the wins: Christmas Past and Christmas Future gives you 3, 6 or 12 free spins while Christmas Present (LOL) turns all triggering symbols Wild.

Take Santa’s Shop – Betsoft

Who doesn’t love a good heist movie? With Betsoft’s Take Santa’s Shop online slots game you get to add a heist caper to your Christmas themed slots playing.

The 5-reels and 75 paylines are all about a crook trying to get into Santa’s shop and it is incredibly fun. The bonus features are what really makes it different, especially the Ornament Bombs that appear every time you hit a Holiday Robber symbol. These ornament bombs are sticky wilds that work with the 10-spin cycle progression to give you some truly big wins.

Take Santa’s Shop is well built with excellent graphics and a really awesome soundtrack – one of the best music backgrounds we’ve heard in a long while! It’s like a Michael Bublé/jazzy/funk/bossa nova/fusion Jingle Bells that would not be out of a place in Xmas James Bond soundtrack.

There are plenty of opportunities for wilds, scatters and free spins and, together with the funky soundtrack, these make Take Santa’s Shop one of our favourite online slots this December.

Holiday Spirits – Play’n GO

We mentioned the creepy factor of Holiday Season above. Well, Holiday Spirits from Play’n GO takes creepy to a whole new festive level.

Another Christmas online slots game that features Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, Holiday Spirits is creepy in all the good ways. There is a layer of jolly Christmas in the crackling fire and colourful Christmas tree, the candy canes and snow globes and stuffed stockings symbols – and then you’re hit with the creepiest laugh from Scrooge’s Wilds. The atmospheric music and the ticking clock add to the sense of doom that you don’t expect from a Christmas-themed game.

While the games theme sets it apart, the 3-reel, 5 payline Holiday Spirits is really fun to play. Lots of wilds and multipliers to keep your bankroll ticking over and superb graphics to keep you entertained.

Along with Take Santa’s Shop it is definitely our favourite so far this Christmas season.

‘Tis the season

Online Casino Review wishes all our fans and followers a truly fantastic festive season. Keep an eye out for our soon-to-be-regular festive themed slots articles (Thanksgiving, Easter, Beerfest and more coming your way as and when).

While this a great opportunity for players to put the long year behind them and take some time for themselves, we urge you to remember that the festive season is always better when you spend time with family and friends.

Play responsibly and have yourselves a very merry time.