Penguins, walruses and polar bears roam the reels as Relax Gaming marked the beginning of winter with its new slot Winter Champions, our latest Slot of the Week pick.
With three bonus game modes on offer, Winter Champions is a 5×4 reel slot with 1,024 ways to win and a maximum win worth x6,000 the player’s stake. The slot has high volatility with an RTP worth 96.1%.
Shelley Hannah, CPO at Relax Gaming, stated: “We are excited to introduce Winter Champions, a slot that truly captures the excitement and competitive spirit of winter sports. The sliding respins mechanic adds dynamic gameplay, while the three unique bonus games ensure there’s something for everyone.
“We believe this game will deliver hours of fun and plenty of big-win potential for players that will continue beyond the winter season.”
Throughout the game, any wins that occur will cause a special tumble feature to occur, where the bottom row disappears from the reels as each row above it tumbles down by one position. This can cause repeat wins to occur, or new wins to be formed.
This feature will be repeated if another win occurs when the reels tumble downwards.
When activating the bonus game mode choice, players can select one of three options: the ice hockey bonus, the curling bonus or the ski jumping bonus.
In the ice hockey bonus, goal symbols can appear on the reels which allow players to collect special puck prize symbols that appear as embellishments on standard symbols.
Each goal symbol will also present a multiplier to be applied to all puck prize values that are won on the same spin.
For the ski jumping bonus, players are given a certain number of spins while each tumble feature that occurs allows them to climb up a meter beside the reel set. Wild symbols that appear will also progress players up this meter.
Reaching certain sections of this meter can allow players to win enhanced prizes of x250, x500 or x5,000 their stake.
In the curling bonus, curling stones can land on the reels displaying multiplied bet amounts. Players are given six spins to land as many curling stones on the reels as possible, while filling certain reels and rows completely with curling stones will apply multipliers to their displayed values.
Filling columns with curling stones will apply x5 multiplier to that column’s curling stones, while filling rows five, four, three, two and one with curling stones will apply x2, x8, x40 and x150 multipliers respectively.
If readers would like to test their luck with the demo version of Winter Champions, they can click here to be directed to Relax Gaming’s official website.