If you’re looking to kill some time in the Holidays season, and you just want a cozy and relaxingXmas slotexperience, you cannot really go wrong with Stay Frosty from Betsoft. The Stay Wild feature livens up the base game, as clusters of wilds tend to be generated, and these remain in place for two spins when they’ve already been part of a winning combination.
The visual presentation is not as 3D and cinematographic as you might be used to from this developer, but they’ve conjured up a compelling snow-filled environment. The gameplay is very straight forward stuff, and small to mid sized payouts will keep you going until the bonus round is triggered. Sticky wilds is a very classic feature indeed, but this would have been a more attractive prospect with some multiplier action and a higher potential.
The so-calledStay Wildscan land on reels 2, 3 and 4 only, and they substitute for all regular pay symbols to help complete winning combinations. If a wild is part of a win, it remains sticky for 2 more spins, hence the name “Stay Wild”. The wild holds no value of its own however, and the top 3 premiums pay 1, 2 and 4 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins.
TheMerry Reindeer Bonus Roundis triggered when you land at least 3 reindeer scatters anywhere in view. More precisely, you win10, 15 or 20 free spinswhen you land3, 4 or 5 scatters, respectively, and this also awards ascatter win of 5, 10 or 50 x your stake. Wilds that are part of a win become sticky for the duration of the feature, and you cannot retrigger the bonus round.
You can purchase the feature at any time however, at least if you live in an eligible jurisdiction. Per usual, thisbonus buy featureis not available for UK players, but it comes with 3 options. Pay65, 135 or 225 x your stakefor10, 15 or 20 free spins, respectively, and you’ll be taken directly into the bonus round screen.
You get to see the Stay Wild feature in action with plenty of wilds that leads to some okay payouts. We then purchase the top-tier bonus round at 1:16 into the 5-minute highlights video. Almost filling the 3 middle reels with sticky wilds early on awarded plenty of solid payouts, and you can see it all for yourself by hitting the play button below.
If the Coca-Cola company suddenly got into producing online slots, we can imagine their Xmas release looking something akin to what Betsoft has done with Stay Frosty. It’s “cozy” in a very glossy and commercialized way, if that makes sense, and we were half-way expecting a Coke bottle symbol to land at some point. What you get instead is the Stay Wilds, and this feature can lead to some exciting moments.
Nothing too unmanageable though, as a full screen of the top-tier symbol combined with wilds pay “only” 400x your stake. The overall922x potentialis not exactly earth-shattering stuff either, and this is clearly a casual Christmas release people can relax with when the Holidays season once again is upon us. For that purpose Stay Frosty works just fine, but this is hardly the best Xmas release we’ve seen so far this year.
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Christmas Big Bass Bonanza- is a Reel Kingdom Xmas reskin job, and you get to go fishing for cash prizes with Santa himself in this version of the very popular original. Santa wilds are collected in the reel em bonus round, and this upgrades the multiplier for payouts up to 2,100x your stake.
Santa’s Stack- is a very solid Holidays release from Relax, and it’s not even a reskin job. It plays out on an 8×8 cluster pays grid, and wins that involve wilds trigger secret santa respins with mystery symbols. You get a progressively increasing amount of guaranteed wilds per free spin, and the max win is a solid 20,000x your stake.
Plenty of Presents- is a Just For the Win (Microgaming) Xmas release, and it plays out on 5×3 reels with 10 paylines. The base game comes with plenty of multiplying multiplier wilds, and you get even more multiplier wild action in the bonus round. This can lead to solid payouts up to 25,000x your stake.
