Reel Crime: Stealing Christmas Slots
Reel Crime Stealing Christmas is a fun and engaging video online slot game crafted and released by Rival Gaming in December of 2021. It has since become one of the most popular Festive themed slots and it offers players an exciting and unique gaming experience with clever grid changing mechanics and a range of memorable in game features.
The gaming grid is classical and offers 5 reels with 3 rows and 243 ways to win which increases and expands to 3,125 win lines during the Bonus round. This creates more winning possibilities and additional positions for symbols. To make wins, players will need to place at least three and up to five matching symbols on the reels that pay from left to right.
The background shows a classical building in a city covered with snow covered streets and twinkling lights and the reels are styled with various festive symbols such as snowmen, Christmas trees and decorations. The visuals carry a lighthearted cartoon like feel with a lot of impressive attention to detail. The animations are smooth and well executed and the jingle bells music sets the perfect holiday tone bringing in the right atmospheric touch.
Fleeing from the law and just in time for the holidays, the infamous bungling duo of thieves Remy and Raoul have reappeared and are planning a little robbery and Christmas Crime spree. What can go wrong? It appears the house they want to rob is not empty and a kid is about to put a damper on the duo´s intentions.
The RTP (Return to Player Percentage) is competitive at 96.50% and this game plays at the higher end of volatility. This means less frequent wins but when they land they can be significant in size. Whilst this is an exciting proposition for high rollers there are many quiet periods between wins so casual punters will need to keep a handle on their budget by exercising stamina and a big dose of patience.
To begin with wagers will need to be placed and these begin from a minimum of $0.25 per spin and up to $62.50 for the maximum per spin. A useful auto-play button allows for a set number of pre automated spins to be set up and this can help those who are seeking to stay on top of a gaming budget. Equally, it makes for a useful tool for those who dislike manual play preferring more fluidity in their gameplay.
The first of the bonus features are the drop icons and any drop icon win will trigger the Drop Feature and Cascading Reels. The icons that started the winning combination disappear and the symbols above them fall into the empty spaces. All of these drop icons appear in the paytable.
The wild symbol is shown as the left behind kid, the Blonde Boy and there are enticing multipliers starting from 3x and up to 9x to augment winnings now and then. This wild can substitute for all the other gaming symbols with the exception of the scatter which is represented as the thieving duo Remy and Raoul and they award a payout when displayed anywhere on the gaming grid.
Other gaming symbols encompass a blend of festive and crime related items and feature the lucrative and high paying christmas tree offering 1,250x the wager for five of a kind, the christmas decoration offers 1,000x for five and the snowman 600x for five. Wrenches, crowbars, toolboxes with blowtorches and the villians van offer between 500x, 400x, 300x, 100 and 90x. The royal playing cards of Ace through to Jack wrapped in festive decorations offer the lowest payouts of 90x, 60x, 50x and 45x for all five.
When the game begins players have access to the first three floors in regular play with 243 ways to win and landing three scatters will open the blinds on the top floor triggering the Protect the House round and where the wild icon has a 2x multiplier in this mode. Having four of these floors lit offers players 1,024 ways to win and landing three more scatters opens up the fifth floor blinds to the Penthouse Mayhem round with 3.125 ways to win.
There are also free spins with 3, 4 and 5 of these scatters handing players 5, 10 or 15 free spins. The wild icon carries a 5x multiplier for the wins during these spins and there are 3,125 ways to win.
Reel Crime: Stealing Christmas is designed to be fully compatible with various platforms including desktop browsers, smartphones and tablet devices. The game is fully optimized for mobile play so players can enjoy it on the go or at home testing their luck to score the biggest prizes.