Look, we are not saying that you should get away from the family the whole time. Maybe your the type of guy/gal who likes to just go to the pub and have a few drinks with friends instead.
However you like to celebrate, it’s ok with us. But we also know the Holiday season is stressful for most of us, with moments of pure joy, and pure horror side by side.
So if you need to escape for five minutes, or are bored watching Elf for the 10th time this year, grab your phone and take a few spins.
We’ve got a list of the best Christmas slots on mobile, but this is a little different. This is our version of the different reasons you might be playing, and the video slots that will help you get through it.
Some are old, some are new. Some are downright surprising, but we don’t care, have fun with this list and enjoy some happy slot spins.
1. The Best Traditional Christmas festive slot
You’ve got the link to all the best Christmas online slots above, so feel free to play on every elf powered gambling game, spin on every Santa sleigh, and wager on the quality of the eggnog.
But this is the casino game we’ve picked as the one that gives you the warmest of glows inside. It’s the one you play when the kids are behaving, you are watching a crappy movie, and you want to go with the flow of the holiday.
So peek inside this window and hope you’ve been good this year because the gifts under these Christmas reels are well worth your while.
Jingle Spin by NetEnt
NetEnt game studios had to be somewhere on this list. Despite the fact that they are not as good as during the glory days, they still bring out some gems year to year.
Thankfully the Jingle Spin slot isn’t technically new, but actually the EggOmatic mobile game in disguise.
Join Santa in his workshop as he throws baubles at the top of the five reels and watch as they open presents in the reels to reveal wilds, free spins, expanded wilds, and cash prizes.
With 20 paylines and a minimum bet of 0.20 a spin, this is affordable for most, though as a fairly volatile slot, you’ll need a little patience to cook this Turkey to its full potential.
2. The best slot for when you burn the Turkey
It happens to the best of us. You’ve glazed the ham, basted the turkey, roasted the beef… but all that comes out is a non-recognisable piece of coal because clearly, you’ve been naughty this year.
Thankfully there are people out there who don’t care about the festive season and who are open all year round to help feed you and your family in times of emergency. It’s called a Take-Away.
Unfortunately for the workers in our next game, they also happen to be enslaved penguins trapped in a restaurant, but who said good food comes cheap?
Penguin City by Yggdrasil Gaming
Totally silly and totally ridiculous, the premise is this: the tiny little flightless birds are slaves to the Emperor Penguin Restaurant owner.
Forced to cook cheap delicious noodles all day round, they dream of escaping by whatever means necessary, even if that means physically leaping out of the reels and risking life and limb.
The Penguin City slot pays both ways, and all ways, giving you quick easy wins for what is a quick easy game. Every wild stays sticky on screen, landing you more wilds with the help of the escaping penguins, and possibly even some free spins.
Low variance and with a 0.10 minimum bet and 243 ways to win, this is a no stress game for when you’re in a stressful situation.
3. The drinking slot when you are not allowed to drink
We never recommend you drink and gamble, because that’s when reason goes out of the window and regret comes into play.
Because let’s be honest, regret and drinking are lifelong partners in crime.
So this next real money slot isn’t for when you are having a merry jolly Christmas, but when everyone else around you seems to be having a good time, but you’re the cook/designated driver/organiser.
It happens, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have some fun in the moments when you have some downtime.
The classic Ladies Nite by Microgaming
Sometimes the old ones are the best, and the Ladies Nite slot is one of those games that you either love or don’t know about. But once you do know, you’ll love it.
Following from the tradition of Thunderstruck and Agent Jane Blonde slots, this is a simple old-fashioned 5 reels 9 payline game.
Which means it has the lowest minimum bet in the whole list, costing you only 0.09 a spin. Add a 2x multiplier on the wild and scatters that trigger 15 free spins with a 3x multiplier, and this is better than an actual rum and coke.
4. One for the December babies who hate Christmas!
We all have them. The friends whose birthday is somewhere in December or (worst) actual Christmas day.
They moan and complain loudly, or maybe huff and puff under their breath as their special day is taken over by all the festivities.
And you know what? So they should. It sucks that on the one day of the year where you should have everyone’s attention, everyone is too busy with Christmas parties to attend yours.
Or worst, you get one present to cover both Birthday AND Christmas, leaving you with one less present than everyone else.
This slot machine is for your friends. Happy Birthday.
The Birthday slot by Elk Studios
This is a mobile slot like no other as all the party guests are past characters from the Elk Studio slots. So if you don’t know them, you will now!
The Birthday mobile game is a 178 ways to win slot machine with 5 reels and a minimum bet of 0.10 a spin. It has not one, not two, but 9 special bonus features, including walking wilds, wild re-spins, and guaranteed win free spins.
It’s the iPhone slot that keeps on giving.
You never quite know whether a camel will show up at the door and give you a re-spin until you have at least 3 wins. Or maybe a Pirate Queen will show up and give you a big win of at least 15 times your bet.
This party is one party where anything can happen.
5. The Vegas slot that will take you away from it all
We mentioned before, this is a judgement free zone. Which means that Christmas might not be your thing at all. In case you hadn’t noticed, our choices haven’t exactly been that traditional either.
We put so much pressure to be with family over the holidays, we forget that that’s not how everyone wants to spend their time.
Some people run away on grand vacations just to ignore the whole thing. We’ve done it in the past, and there is a glorious freedom to it.
So if you’d rather run away to Vegas but don’t have the budget to fly just this moment, there’s another option you might want to consider.
Welcome To Fabulous Neon Life by Playtech Studios
Playtech studios haven’t done a big splash for us this year, but one casino slot that stood out for us was this gloriously fabulous Neon Life slot machine.
Instead of having cascading reels where the winning symbols explode, the winning symbols stay on screen and all the extra symbols explode. You then get more symbols tumble down from above.
This gives you an extra helping hand in creating bigger 3/4/5 of a kind win which can get you all the dollar bills you need to visit the next strip… to visit the strip. Ahem.
Add 25 free spins where every collapsing win will increase the multiplier up 5x, and this is one Vegas slot game that will transport you right to the heart of the action.
