Santa's Stack Slot

If there is one thing about Relax gaming, is they never copy and remake a game within different themes and the same gameplay unless it’s a 2nd version of the same slot that looks the same and the theme as well.

They are very unique with their offering and potentials as well, all of their slots are highly volatile and Santa's Stack is one of them, very hard to bonus, but the base game can dish out the odd small big wins here and there.

Most probably released for the Christmas holidays, hence the theme, but this slot takes place on an 8x8 grid reel set, with the backdrop of a small snowy town. This can be either a nice cold snow Christmas in the UK or the United States. You will see all different Christmas lights, green, red, blue which are your low-paying symbols, and the reindeer, and characters as high-value symbols. Santa is the most lucrative and getting 60 or more on the reels will award x3000 your total bet.

Wild is on the reels and substitutes for all symbols however when substituting in a win, mystery gift wraps are created with re-spins, the more wins to the mystery gift or with wilds, the biggest the mystery symbol gets. If there are no more winning symbols, it will reveal a random symbol for the big win.

If you like Christmas trees then you need to get enough of them because you need 3 or more to get the free spins feature. You are awarded 6 spins or more for extra scatters. Gameplay is the same during free spins, however more wilds are active, and you can win extra spins, with multipliers that become sticky for huge wins.

The game is straightforward with that old-school Nintendo graphics, but something that anyone would enjoy, just the flashback to my childhood when life was just simple.

Santa's Stacks is one of the newest game releases from Relax Gaming. And while I'm not usually a fan of season or festive slots, I was curious to try this slot out. Simply because Relax Gaming tends to always have some cool features and what better time to try a Christmas game if not in December?

As you can guess by the name, Santa's Stacks is inspired by the Santa Claus theme and overall gives a quite festive ambiance. When it comes to the mechanic, the game has a cluster pays mechanic instead of regular paylines. The bets go as low as 10 cents and so far I've played it with 10 or 20 cent bets and I can definitely say it's a high variance game.

In the base game there's a Santa Presents feature- once you land a wild symbol that participates in a winning combination, all the symbols involved in the win get wrapped up like presents. Then you get a free respin and unless there's a new winning combination, the present symbols turn into one matching symbol. Therefore you want to have as many symbols included in winnings with wild symbols to form big clusters. I find that this feature comes up very frequently but for the most part gives small wins. Only a few times I've had a big win with this feature but I find that it adds some kind of extra excitement to the base game.

Aside from that there's also a free spins bonus round which is either triggered by 3 or more Christmas trees or you can buy it for 100x your bet. However the bonus round is extremely volatile- I've bought a few bonus rounds that didn't even get to a 10x bet win mark. The bonus starts with 5 free spins and again you'll want to see wins with wilds for Santa's present feature. However, what you also want to see is christmas tree symbols- each of the symbols can either increase the win multiplier or add extra spins. And from my experience, unless you land the christmas trees, the bonus round goes by quickly and can give a tiny payout. But so far my best win from the bonus round was when I had 4 extra free spins and a 3x multiplier that paid 300x bet win due to a cluster of reindeer symbols.

Overall I do enjoy this game which is a surprise for me as I usually don't like Christmas themed games. But in this case the design is quite fun and I like the Santa's presents feature. However, this game is a classic Relax gaming slot in terms of volatility and the bonus round can either pay big or close to nothing. But during the festive season I do see myself continuing to play this game however due to the theme - probably not afterwards.

I like the "old" style looking slot and it has a nice flow. It got a potential for huge wins in both freespins and basegame. You need 3 scatters for a bonus of 5 freespins with a chance of one extra freespins for each extra scatter.

Watch out. This is a EXTREME volatile slot. I got my first freespins in base game after around 800 spins. You will easily have 10-20 deadspins before u most likely get a small hit. I won 20 x in my first bonus and came back to the basegame with 300 deadspins before i had to give up. I bought the freespin bonus 5 times. My best win on this was 56 x.
Get ready for a grind if u want to hunt this for big wins.