Fat Santa Slot (Push Gaming)

The Fat Santa slot is played with 5 reels, 5 rows and 50 paylines. Even though it looks like a Cluster Pays or Scatter Pays game, winning combinations are formed by seeing 3 or more matching symbols from left to right, beginning from the leftmost reel and across any of the 50 paylines. The highest win per payline will be awarded as standard.

When it comes to betting options, you can play Fat Santa from 25p to £100 a spin. With some slot sites limiting the max bet to £50, £30, £25 or even £5 per spin, you can change your bet by using the arrow in the Total Bet box on the desktop version. On a mobile or tablet device, press the 3 lines icon.

Returns-wise, the Fat Santa RTP rate is 96.45% which is above the online slot game average of 96%. As with other Push Gaming slot games, there are 2 alternative RTP versions: 95.28% and 94.18%. With the free demo showcasing the highest RTP setting, open the game’s Paytable to see which rate you’re playing with.

Medium to high volatility, Push Gaming provide no hit frequency rate information for their slot games. In terms of win potential, the Fat Santa slot comes with a theoretical 10,233 times bet max wins. Bigger wins will come in the free spins where you’ll play with a Santa Wild up to 5x5 in size.

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Released on the 1^st of November 2018, the Fat Santa slot is the Christmas version of the iconic Fat Rabbit released earlier that year (March). With a festive/Christmas theme, a rather plump Father Christmas is on his way so need to keep your eyes peeled his his sleigh.

Set in Lapland, you’ll come across a snowy setting with snow-capped mountains and trees in the backdrop. With a rather cosy-looking cabin in the background, it’s everything you could have hoped for from a Christmas-themed slot game. The soundtrack is rather gentle and jaunty which adds to the feel-good factor.

On the reels, there are spade, diamond, heart and spade baubles representing the low-value symbols. The higher-value symbols include a present, a snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and an elf. The elf symbol pays the most awarding 20 times your total bet for 5 across a payline. If you fill the screen with elf symbols, a 1,000 times bet payout will be awarded.

Fat Santa comes with 2 wild symbols. You have the Santa Wild which substitutes for all other symbols. Then you have the Mince Pie Wild symbol which substitutes for all symbols bar the Santa Wild. With no Scatter or Bonus symbols, below is a list of all symbol payouts and functions:

• Club/Diamond Bauble: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.16, 0.6 or 1.6 x bet
• Heart/Spade Baulble: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 0.8 or 2 bet
• Present: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.32, 1.6 or 6 x bet
• Snowman: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.4, 2 or 10 x bet
• Rudolph: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.6, 3 or 16 x bet
• Elf: 3, 4 or 5 =0.8, 4 or 20 x bet
• Santa Wild: Substitutes for paying symbols + pays up to 20 x bet
• Mince Pie Wild: Substitutes for all symbols

Fat Santa Mobile

The Fat Santa slot game is available to play on desktop, tablet and mobile devices. Created using HTML5 technology, Push Gaming produces their slots from a mobile-first perspective. This means they cater primarily to players who play on smartphones, including iOS and Android ones. The superb Portrait Mode occupies more of the screen.

Fat Santa has 4 bonus features. With Santa’s sleigh dropping off Mince Pie Wilds onto the reels randomly in the base game, the focus is on the Free Games feature where you’ll play with a 1x1 Santa Wild. When Santa eats enough mince pies, you’ll win extra free spins and fatten the Santa Wild up to 5x5 in size.

Santa’s Sleigh

Randomly on a base game spin, Santa’s sleigh will fly across the screen to trigger the Santa’s Sleigh feature. Santa will leave a trail of Mince Pie Wilds behind on random reel positions.

The Mince Pie Wild symbols lock in position with the reels respinning. Essentially, it makes it a lot easier to form winning combinations.

Free Games

Fat Santa, like its farm-themed counterpart Fat Rabbit, is all about the Free Games feature. It’s triggered when a Santa Wild symbol lands with 1 or more Mince Pie Wild symbols anywhere on the reels.

5 free spins will be awarded with a 1x1 Santa Wild symbol on the reels that moves around with every new free spin. On the reels, Mince Pie symbols will appear. The Santa Wild will race across the reels to eat them. The more he eats, the more the Santa Wild will grow.

With every Mince Pie symbol eaten, the meter to the side of the reels fills up. If you fill the meter, the Expanding Wild Santa feature comes into play. Every time you fill the meter, the Santa Wild increases in size. Additional free spins will also be won.

Importantly, the Santa Wild can reach up to 5x5 in size with up to 13 free spins to be played in total. Below is an image highlighting how many Mince Pie symbols you need in each of the levels to increase the Santa Wild size and win more free spins:

If you collect the maximum amount of Mince Pie symbols, the 5x5 Santa Wild will guarantee a win of 1,000 times your total bet on the last free spin. Theoretically, you can win up to 10,233 times your total bet in the Free Games feature as a whole.

The festive edition of Fat Rabbit, the Fat Santa slot was oddly released in November (2018) rather than December. If you love Christmas, this is what Christmas-themed slot games are all about as you head to Lapland (presumably) where everything is covered in snow. The gentle and pleasant soundtrack will give you that warm feeling inside.

In terms of the gameplay, the randomly triggered Santa’s Sleigh feature sees Santa drop Mince Pie Wilds onto the reels. Then reels then respin with the Mince Pie Wilds locked in position.

Focusing on the Free Games feature, you begin with a mere 5 free spins. With a 1x1 Santa Wild symbol on the reels, the aim is to land Mince Pie symbols which are gobbled up by the hungry Santa. These are collected in a meter next to the reels. If you fill the meter, the Santa Wild increases in size as well as more free spins being awarded.

With 5 levels available, there’s up to 13 free spins to be won. More importantly, the Santa Wild can reach 5x5 in size. If you manage to get to the last level, a guaranteed 1,000 times bet payout will be won on your last free spin. In the feature as a whole, 10,233 times your total bet can be won.

Offering a higher-than-average 96.45% RTP rate, the Free Games feature will not be as pleasant as the setting/theme. On most occasions, not enough Mince Pies will land to progress through the levels to win more free spins and increase the Santa Wild size.

Medium to high volatility, the variance is lower than the high bracket its farmyard counterpart falls in. That said, I prefer the Fat Santa slot to Fat Rabbit as I love Christmas more than farms or rabbits. In summary, it’s a pleasant slot game which is one of the best with a Christmas theme.

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The Fat Santa slot review was written by Chris Taylor from our OLBG Expert team who has written over 10,000 slot game reviews in an iGaming career spanning over 2 decades. It was then verified/checked by Jenny Mason, our prime Slot reviewer who has 17+ years working in online gambling, top UK brands. 

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