Santa vs Rudolf is a slot dedicated to the upcoming Christmas holiday from Netent developers.
Whether it's Easter, Halloween or Christmas, any holiday, slot game developers have a great opportunity to capitalize on their existing games by making them simple upgrades and presenting them as something new. In fact, NetEnt has never released original Christmas slots. For example, in 2016, they released a Christmas version of the Secrets of the Stones slot called Secrets of Christmas. In 2018, a festive version of the already existing slot EggOMatic changed the theme and gave it the name Jingle Spin. Now, before the upcoming Christmas holiday, they decided to update another slot called The Invisible Man, which was released in 2014 and now we have its Christmas version called Santa vs Rudolf (Santa vs Rudolf).
Visually, the Santa vs Rudolf slot machine is fully consistent with the Christmas theme. As soon as you launch the Santa vs Rudolf slot, you will immediately find yourself at the North Pole, because it is there, surrounded by Christmas trees and snow, that Santa Claus prepares gifts for children. It's great right? If not for one, but. Reindeer Rudolph decides to play and hide Santa's hat. This, of course, infuriates Klaus, causing him to get into a fight with Rudolph when they clash on the drums. If you have played The Invisible Man slot, then you probably know what you can expect from Santa vs Rudolf (Santa vs. Rudolf) from the technical side. You will find a 5x3 playing field and 20 paylines, among the symbols you will find Christmas paraphernalia: card names from 10 to A in the form of candies, wish lists, snow balls with a deer, Rudolph's collar, gifts and the famous Santa Claus sleigh. There are also two wild symbols in the Santa vs Rudolf slot, in the form of Santa and Rudolf, with which interesting features are associated.
Wild Re-Spins - Wild symbol Rudolf can appear on any spin, but only on the first reel and move one position to the right, replacing all symbols on its way, until it leaves the playing field. The same applies to Santa, only he appears on the fifth reel and moves one position to the left, replacing all the symbols on his way, until he leaves the game screen.
The mechanism for triggering free spins here is quite interesting and a bit non-standard. If Santa and his reindeer Rudolph appear on the same row, they will clash and start a fight, after which 10 free spins will be activated. Please note that you will have the opportunity to increase their number. If Santa and Rudolf collide in all rows at once, this can bring you a maximum of 30 free spins. Wild symbols appear much more often during free spins, and whenever two warring sides collide, 4 more spins are added to your total.
In addition, during the free spins you will see two counters above the reels, each corresponding to a specific wild symbol. When the wild symbol of Santa or Rudolph descends from the reels, they fill one cell on their counter. Both counters have eight spaces and if you fill one of them completely before the function ends, you will activate the corresponding bonus round. Here's what you can expect:
In conclusion, I would like to say that Santa vs Rudolf, despite its similarity to The Invisible Man, turned out to be a fun and interesting slot machine that is perfect for playing during the Christmas holidays.
