Reindeer Royale Slot (ELK Studios)

The Reindeer Royale slot game is played on 5x5 grid, and there are 259 paylines. Landing between 3 and 6 matching symbols from left to right on consecutive reels leads to a win. Wins must start on the leftmost reel and pay from left to right with no gaps.

Bets for this game start at 20p and go up to £100. You can adjust your bet amount using the pile of coins button. Non-UK players can utilise the Autoplay function, which goes up to 100 spins. Plus, there’s a Quick Play function that gives you the option of speeding up the spins.

The RTP rate is 94%, which is below the online average of 96%. The hit frequency is 21.4%, which means a win takes place on average every 4.67 spins. You’ll find a volatility rating of 'high', or 9 out of 10 and the maximum win is 25,000 x the bet.

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They say that revenge is a dish best served cold - and in the Reindeer Royale slot, it’s downright freezing! Set in the bleak, snowy wilderness of northern Scandinavia, the game unfolds outside a remote, dimly lit cabin inhabited by sinister hunters, complete with barbed wire and animal traps.

The intro video sets the tone as Rudolph, with a target on his head, is shot and mounted as a trophy - a grim start, but soon, the rest of the reindeer arrive, armed and ready for vengeance.

The Free Spins feature transports you into the hunter’s lodge, outfitted with gruesome hunting tools, all to the tune of intense metal music which fits the vibe perfectly.

The base game relies on amazing atmospheric sound effects rather than music; no music is used or indeed needed. You can hear crunching footsteps in the snow, eerie wind, distant crows and owls, and the light jingle of sleigh bells.

The reels feature hunters and their grisly equipment, including a meat grinder. The hunters themselves serve as the highest-paying symbols and the full list of values is below:

• Hunter with meat cleaver: 3, 4 or 5 = 1.50, 2.00 or 3.00 x the bet
• Hunter with gun: 3, 4 or 5 = 1.00, 1.50 or 2.00 x the bet
• Meat grinder & Truck: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.40, 0.60 or 1.00 x the bet
• The 4 lower-value hunting equipment symbols: 3, 4 or 5 = 0.20, 0.25 or 0.30 x the bet
• Wild: substitutes for all symbols apart from the bonus, reindeer and ammunition cache symbols.
• Bonus: 3+ trigger the Free Spins Bonus Game
  
  

The Reindeer Royale Mobile

The Reindeer Royale mobile slot has been designed with advanced HTML5 technology, delivering a top-tier experience on both Android and iOS. During testing, the game performed smoothly in both portrait and landscape modes. It’s also fully optimised for tablets and desktops, ensuring seamless play across devices. For the best visuals, ELK Studios recommends a 1600×900 resolution and maintaining a 16:9 aspect ratio if scaling is needed.

There are 5 bonus features that can be triggered as part of the Reindeer royale slot game: Ammo Reveal, Reindeer Respin, GhostCollect, Free Spins Bonus Game and the X-Iter Feature Buy.

Ammo Reveal

A wild contributing to a win reveals an ammunition cache with a random value. The reveal occurs after the win and only if there's a reindeer in view.

Reindeer Respin

The Reindeer Respin feature activates when: a). A reindeer collects an ammunition cache, b). A reindeer appears in a respin or c) 2 reindeer face off. Each trigger awards you 1 respin. The reindeer symbols collect values from all visible ammunition caches (which have cash values assigned to them)  and any adjacent reindeer. Each collection awards 1 respin, and reindeer may move to new positions with each respin. 

Ammunition caches act as blockers, but each reindeer in view collects their values after the payline wins, also awarding 1 respin regardless of the number of caches or reindeer involved.

Ghost Collect

The Ghost Collectrs feature is triggered randomly during a respin or free spin when there are at least 2 reindeer in view. It triggers a collect between a random number of reindeer that are currently in view. The selected reindeer do not need to be adjacent to each other, and the collection takes place over spinning reels where the selected reindeer are currently located.

Free Spins Bonus Game

Landing 3 or more bonus symbols triggers the bonus game, where you're awarded free spins and a sticky reindeer symbol. Landing 3, 4, or 5 scatter symbols, awards you 3 free spins + 1 sticky reindeer, 4 free spins + 2 sticky reindeer, and 5 free spins + 3 sticky reindeer, respectively.

Reindeer from the base game carry over to the bonus game. All reindeer stay sticky in the bonus game and you can earn extra spins, 1 scatter = 1 extra spin. 

X-Iter Feature Buy

If you're a non-UK slot player, you can use the feature buy functionality which ELK calls X-Iter where there are several options:

Reindeer Royale Slot

Rating: 4.5/5

This truly immersive Christmas slot with a dark twist offers 25,000 x the bet max win. Look out for the Reindeer Respin feature, where values are collected from the grid. Plus, a fun Free Spins feature featuring sticky symbols.

Jenny Mason

The Reindeer Royale slot is a darkly festive reskin of Rabbit Royale, so if you enjoyed that game, you’re in for a treat. It’s refreshing to see a Christmas game break away from the usual tinsel and Santa cheese-fest and bring a twisted festive vibe instead. The metal soundtrack during the Free Spins round perfectly complements the game’s dark atmosphere: no ‘Jingle Bells’ here thank you very much.

If you love a Christmas-themed slot don't miss out on the OLBG guide to the best Christmas slots, which is updated every year. 

Like most ELK Studios games, Reindeer Royale boasts stunning graphics and surprisingly impactful sound effects. I usually don’t pay much attention to audio, but the crunch of footsteps in snow and faint sounds in the background gave the game an unexpectedly eerie feel, much more than music would ever do.

The Free Spins Bonus Game was a highlight for me, especially with sticky symbols that last throughout the round plus the potential for extra spins to extend gameplay which happened when testing this game. Reindeer Royale also impresses with a strong max win potential of 25,000 x the bet, tying with other ELK hits like Rabbit Royale (though titles like Nitropolis 4 and Nitropolis 5 go up to an impressive 50,000 x bet).

ELK Studios often features animal-themed slots, and personally, I enjoy it when the animals kick the arse of the humans, as in Nolimit City’s Roadkill or NetEnt’s Rabid Randy! The only downside here is ELK’s typical RTP of around 94%; however, that's the only issue I could find for this game. Reindeer Royale scores a 4.5/5 from me for this truly immersive slot with a wicked twist.

The Reindeer Royale slot review was written by our slot game experts on the OLBG Expert team. Beginning with Jenny Mason, our prime slot reviewer, who has 17+ years of experience working in iGaming for some of the UK’s top brands. Jenny is an expert in slots and bingo. It was then verified by Chris Taylor who has written over 10,000 slot game reviews in an iGaming career spanning over 2 decades.   

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