Fat Santa Slot Review

Fat Santa Slot RTP, Details & Wager Limits

The Fat Santa slot is played on a 5×5 grid that offers 50 paylines. To create a winning combination, land 3 or more matching symbols or wilds across 1 of those 50 paylines, beginning from reel 1.

Click on the arrow next to the Total Bet tab to set your stakes. These start at 25p and rise to a maximum of £25 per spin. You can set 10, 20, 50 or 100 autospins if required. There are also options for win and loss stop limits. If you want to activate turbo spin mode, head to the setting then click on the lightning bolt.

The Fat Santa RTP is 96.45% which is above average. I found the volatility here to be in the high range which means big wins will be hard to come by.

The maximum win per spin is 1,000 x your total stake. Overall though, the max win is a very festive 10,223 x your total stake from the Free Games feature.

Theme – join Santa on the reels

With a Christmas theme, the setting in the Fat Santa slot is a cabin in Lapland. The visuals are bright colourful and jolly. The design in many festive slots can be overly saccharine but Push Gaming has got the balance just about right here. The reels are set against a backdrop of snow-capped mountains, pine trees and a cabin that’s decked out with decorations.

There’s a jaunty little backing track playing while you spin. Like the imagery, it’s jolly enough to be festive without being too schmaltzy. Overall, the design in Fat Santa is nicely done.

On the reels you’ll find a quartet of lower value club, diamond, heart and spade bauble symbols. More rewarding are the gift box, snowman and Rudolph. Santa’s elf is the most lucrative standard symbol. Land 3, 4 or 5 of these in combination for an award of 0.8, 4 or 20 x your total stake.

Those same amounts are on offer from Santa which is 1 of the game’s 2 wild symbols. The mince pie is the second wild. They both substitutes for all the standard symbols when they make up part of a winning combination. Here’s a list of all payouts by symbol:

Symbol	Payouts/Info
Club Bauble	3, 4 or 5 = 0.16, 0.6 or 1.6 x stake
Diamond Bauble	3, 4 or 5 = 0.16, 0.6 or 1.6 x stake
Heart Bauble	3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 0.8 or 2 x stake
Spade Bauble	3, 4 or 5 = 0.2, 0.8 or 2 x stake
Gift Box	3, 4 or 5 = 0.32, 1.6 or 6 x stake
Snowman	3, 4 or 5 = 0.4, 2 or 10 x stake
Rudolph	3, 4 or 5 = 0.6, 3 or 16 x stake
Santa's Elf	3, 4 or 5 = 0.8, 4 or 20 x stake
Fat Santa Wild	Substitutes for symbols above + pays up to 20 x stake
Mince Pie Wild	Substitutes for all symbols except Fat Santa Wild
Free Spins Mince Pie Wild	Only appears during Free Games feature

Fat Santa Mobile

You can play Fat Santa on all devices including computer, tablet and mobile. The bold, colourful visuals stand out nicely on the small screen handsets. The Fat Santa mobile slot is a perfectly playable one.

Fat Santa Bonus Features

Most Christmas themed slots are relatively simple when it comes to gameplay and that’s largely the case with Fat Santa. There are a couple of extras here that can make Fat Santa quite the Christmas party. Wilds are at the centre of much of the best action.

Santa’s Sleigh feature

On any spin, Santa’s animated sleigh can fly across the reels to trigger the Santa’s Sleigh feature. He leaves a trail of mince pies on random positions on the reels as he goes.

More importantly, these symbols all turn into wilds for the spin that follows.

Free Games feature

The Free Games feature is triggered in a slightly unusual manner. Instead of landing 3 scatters, you’ll activate the feature by landing a wild Santa symbol plus a mince pie symbol anywhere on the reels on the same spin. You’ll start with 5 free spins but there are opportunities to add to that seemingly rather skinny tally.

The gameplay here is a little unusual too. A standard sized Santa wild will be on the reels on each free spin. If you land a mince pie wild too, Santa walks across the reels and eats the pie which is then added to a meter.

Expanding Wild Santa feature

When Santa has eaten enough pies to fill up the meter, Santa expands in size, turning into a 2×2 wild. This expansion also adds extra free spins to your total. This is known as the Expanding Wild Santa feature.

The meter resets and the process starts again. If Santa fills the meter by eating enough mince pie wilds, he’ll expand into a 3×3 wild. The more pies Santa eats, the bigger Santa can get. Each expansion also adds more free spins.

If you’re lucky, Fat Santa can turn into a colossal 5×5 wild symbol and you can benefit from up to 13 free spins in total:

In some countries, you’ll have the opportunity to buy your way into the Free Games feature. Known as the Buy feature, this will cost you 80 x your total stake. Unfortunately, this option isn’t available in the UK.

Fat Santa Review Summary – a jolly slot that’s full of Christmas cheer

This is a very enjoyable virtual trip to Lapland. The design is bright and fresh but not too sugary which is what afflicts so many Christmas-themed slots.

The range of extras isn’t massive. However, the big wins will come if Santa gets tucking into the mince pies during the free spins. This can bring a colossal wilds up to 5×5 in size and additional free spins into play. The bigger the colossal wild, the more festive cheer basically. It can lead to 10,223 x stake payouts overall in the feature.

If you’re looking for a simple slot to get you in the mood for Christmas, the Fat Santa slot is probably the best game to play with this theme. The game is also the subject of free spins offers around the festive period.

In case you’re wondering, it has a lot of similarities to the Fat Rabbit slot (also by Push Gaming) which is even higher variance. If it’s festive cheer you’re looking for, I recommend you try Money Sleigh by Relax Gaming or Christmas Carol Megaways by Pragmatic Play, which offers a 96.5% RTP rate and 20,000 x stake max wins.