Hawaiian Christmas Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Hawaiian Christmas Review

With a Tiki theme and tropical setting, Hawaiian Christmas is not a sort of slot machine you expect to be released for the winter festive season. However, people seem to miss trips and stuff during the lockdown, so GameArt executes an overhaul of their older Hawaiian Fruits slot to somehow offset lost opportunities. While it's uncertain whether this one will manage to create that warm homely feel that's found in other Christmas-themed slots, it will definitely stick out from the crowd with a unique style.

Hawaiian Christmas - Slot Outlook

GameArt is not the first to take us on a trip to sunny Hawaii to celebrate the winter holidays. NetEnt has also come up with a remake of their older Tiki-themed slot, Aloha. Cluster Pays, though, Hawaiian Christmas has nothing in common with Aloha. Christmas except for the theme and Cluster Pays mechanic. However, it's almost identical to Hawaiian Fruits when it comes to the stats and gameplay, while the only thing that hints us that it's a new game is the reworked design.

Loading the game will take players to a familiar setting, though, now it's covered in snow, and Christmas decorations and gift sacks are scattered all over the place. Oh, and the music has changed, so now it's more Christmassy instead of a classic jolly Hawaiian beat. But other than that, Hawaiian Christmas doesn't differ from its older sibling.

Hawaiian Christmas Reel Screen

Playable on any device, Hawaiian Christmas offers a betting range of 0.4$ to 200$ per spin. GameArt claims the volatility to be super high, while the RTP is slightly above the average level at 96.08%. You still should get your returns fairly often for the hit rate of 32.67% means that theoretically, every third spin will be a winning one. Anyway, the maximum potential is the main reason why players might feel drawn to spin the reels on Hawaiian Christmas since players can hit payouts of up to 76,723x the stake.

As alluded to earlier, the slot boasts a Cluster Pays system.

The actions take place across a massive 5x5 grid and scoring a win requires matching horizontally or vertically at least 5 instances of the same symbol. The reels are made up of different exotic fruits, which pay from 0.37x to 1.5x of the bet for clusters of 12+ symbols.

Hawaiian Christmas - Bonus Features

When it comes to the gameplay, Hawaiian Christmas doesn't offer anything new, especially if you have ever tried the original part. It relies heavily on Wild symbols, which not only act as a substitute for any other regular symbols but also bring tasty multipliers to boost the potential. Moreover, here players will benefit from the Cascading Wins mechanic, Free Spins, and the Tiki Pop feature, so let's dive in and sort everything out in order.

On any spin during both the base and the bonus game, the Cascading Wins feature comes into play after you hit a win. Winning clusters will be removed to allow new symbols to tumble down onto the grid and fill empty spaces. The feature keeps working until no new win combos appear.

A Tiki guy sitting on the left side of the screen, performing amusing dances and announcing features, is a top star here. During the base game, he may randomly trigger the Tiki Pop feature to remove all instances of a random low-paying symbol from the reels and trigger a Cascade. Furthermore, Tiki lad acts as a meter and each removed symbol fills it to trigger a respective feature.

Collecting 6, 11, or 16 symbols will add up to 3 Wilds to the reels while collecting 40 will trigger the Free Spins. However, you can add more Wilds if you manage to collect 55, 85, or 145 symbols.

Whenever a Wild symbol takes part in a winning combo, it floats to a random empty adjacent position and increases its multiplier by 1x, no limits. Good thing is that all Wild symbols and their accumulated multipliers are carried over to the Free Spins round. The feature is played on a largened 7x7 grid, and players proceed to the bonus game with 5 free spins.

Hawaiian Christmas - Slot Verdict

It's nice to have something out of ordinary, like a Hawaiian-themed slot dedicated to the winter festive season, however, Hawaiian Christmas is just a result of GameArt's lazy approach to the game development. It's a copy of the developer's older slot and all the changes are limited to visual only. You can't say that Hawaiian Christmas offers straightforward and boring gameplay, but are there any reasons to shift from the original to the winter-styled part.

Hardly so.