Aloha! Christmas Slot Machine – Free Play & Review

A very popular game from NetEnt, Aloha!, is available now in holiday-appropriate clothing. Aloha! Christmas is obviously a game which aims to be a good choice for any player during the last few weeks of the year, when many are at home and with some extra time to play. They kept the Tiki-style graphics for the most part, so what changed is that they added Christmas decorations and gifts in the vicinity of the reels.

Otherwise, as symbols you’re still looking at those Tiki statues (with Santa hats on, and colored in red, green and blue), plus pineapples, coconuts, shells and flowers.

Developer

It’s a NetEnt game, and that’s a developer that is easily in the top 3 creators of online slot machines right now. They’ve been doing it since the late 90s, so they were among the pioneers of the online casino industry. They stayed on top by designing gorgeous slot machines, and by innovating in many of them. The original Aloha! slot is still a worthy choice.

How To Play It

Select the bet, you’re going to have an option which allows you to do this with ease, from a range of $0.10 to $200. Once that’s done, you can play.

You create wins in a game area with 6×6 reels, and you are relying on a Cluster Pays system. At least 9 symbols need to be next to each other, to form a cluster and get you paid. The type of symbol, and the number of times it is present in the group (9 to 22+, to get paid), will decide how much you take home.

Special Features

As you go through the game, and you create clusters of symbols, one possible feature that can trigger, is the Sticky Win Respin. It comes at random, so it’s not guaranteed. What it does, is it turns the winning symbols into sticky versions, and then removes other positions and allows new symbols to land. If the cluster keeps getting bigger through respins, then the respins keep coming as well. Once the feature ends, a multiplier of up to 7x will be applied to the win.

A Mystery feature is also implemented, and it is also a random trigger. When it triggers, it adds multiple mystery positions on the reels, all of them being transformed into either regular symbols or wilds with multipliers (2x to 7x). This is the only wild symbol that the game gets, there are no regular ones included in the paytable.

Aloha! Christmas has free spins to give you as well, and those you reach through the scatter symbol, which is double-stacked and shows the image of a stamp and the feature logo. A minimum of 3 are needed, to get you the feature. To get more rounds, you collect Starfish symbols, and 2 spins are won for every 3 that you land. This also removes one low value symbol, allowing higher value wins to more easily form.

You decide on the type of free spins that you trigger.

• Tiki Bar: 10 free spins and 2x-4x wild multipliers.
• Tiki Bar Max: 6 free spins and 4x-7x wild multipliers.

Maximum Payouts

There are enough wild multipliers there, to allow for significant payouts, but this is more of a medium volatility option. As such, its top prize is limited to 1,750x the stake. It’s suitable for the game’s volatility, and it has an appropriate RTP at 96%.

Summary

Aloha! Christmas is perfectly OK to play, if you’re looking for holiday-themed titles. It’s not winter-themed though, and that sets it apart from many other slots which deal with Christmas.