Epic Holiday Party Slot Review

It is expected of games developers to release slot games Christmas and New Year themes before the winter festive season. Most have a traditional flavour, featuring Santa Claus, the North Pole, or family festivities. This year, Real Time Gaming brings out a festive season game with the Vegas touch. A dashing sugar daddy Santa holidays in Sin City with four pretty, buxom ladies.  You are invited to the party with roller-coaster feature rides and lucrative casino payouts.

The grand party is framed in glittering reels with Santa’s red pouch full of gifts sits at the top. The 5 reels are set against neon-lit buildings and avenues of the gambling capital of the world and feature the four premium characters along with the card royals. Though the latter is resonant with the casino theme, they still look irrelevant in an epic party. The game has two wilds – the standard wild will appear only on reels 2, 3, and 4, while the up to x5 multiplier wild lands only on the centre reel.

The Christmas tree? is the scatter of the party and awards around free spins when 3 or more land at once, and also award cash prizes for doing so. Epic Holiday Party can be played on 4 levels of your choice; each presided over by one of the hosts. At the top sits the silver-haired Santa. Each rising level comes with a correspondingly raised bet. You can toggle between levels depending on the how close you are to the game’s top potential of 50,000 times your bet. The game also features four progressive jackpots.

Epic Holiday Party is the creation of Real Time Gaming (RTG), who certainly needs no introduction to those who are even remotely associated with the iGaming. RTG is one of the pioneers of digital games that spawned the online casino industry. As a versatile developer of games across multiple casino categories, it is still among the few who single-handedly populate entire casino libraries even in today’s world of multi-vendor establishments.

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There are several reasons why casual and even seasoned players should try a new game in demo mode. Every game has unique features, gameplay dynamics and math models, which should be understood before staking real money. Some games are simple, but some like the Epic Holiday Party have are relatively complex. Demo games allow players to navigate through the complexity and understanding the risks while providing free entertainment.

Unless you are sure of the gameplay, acquainted with the features, and can afford the volatility associated with each game, it’s unwise to put your money on the line. Reviews like these, are at best your first abstract introduction to a new game. What counts is your personal and practical experience with the game.  Reviews are for the general public, but actual playing is subjective, and the satisfaction, or lack of it, depends on individual tastes and prejudices.  

It is also a good idea to go through the paytable and gameplay instructions, which are hidden behind the ‘i’ tab in most games. To play games for free, you need not register anywhere or open an account. You do not even download them. They are freely available in online casinos and websites of affiliates and the game’s developers themselves. All you have to do is click on ‘Free Play’. Free games also provide wholesome entertainment, even if you do not intend to gamble with real money. 

Play Epic Holiday Party on Your Mobile ?

Players prefer to do their gaming while on the move. Indeed, mobile-compatibility, or the lack of it, can make or break a game. Mobile games, including Epic Holiday Party are programmed with HTML5, which creates a mobile interface optimized for cellular platforms like Android, and iOS, etc., and can be played on all Smartphones and tablets, which run on them. HTML5 also adjusts to the small screen to be enjoyed in original audio-visual clarity. 

Epic Holiday Party is not available for play in offline mode. The game can only be played online through your mobile’s browser. Chrome, Safari, or Firefox will work for smartphones, but iOS and Blackberry devices can only access games on Safari. It goes without saying that you need stable internet connectivity to play on the go. You do not want to board a flight to Vegas only to be grounded in the middle of the Nevada desert.

How to Play Epic Holiday Party ?

Epic Holiday Party is played on a grid of 5 reels of 3 rows each. RTG has dispensed with conventional paylines and the grid offers 243 ways to win. You can set the bet amount you want to play with; the lowest bet is $0.08, while the highest you can go up to is $8.80. You have to select your bet according to one of the four levels you want to play at. 

Each level upgrade increases the value of the premium and bonus symbols and activates different progressives. For e.g., at the base level, the value of Santa is 3 times the bet for 5 of a kind appearances, while his corresponding value at the top level is 5.6 time the bet. 

After you have selected your level and bet, spin the reels to get matching symbols to land on adjacent reels from left to right. When you get a winning combination, you are paid equal to the value of the winning symbol across the number of reels it landed on. The payout will be added to your balance. If there was no win, your bet will be deducted from your bankroll. 

Epic Holiday Party Features

Certain features in the base and bonus games will help you make better and bigger wins. They are explained below:

?Wilds

Wilds are standard features in almost all slot games. They work just like jokers in a card game, filling in the gaps to help create winning combinations. In slot parlance, this is called substituting for regular symbols to make wins. However, the wild cannot replace the scatter, or any other bonus symbols, meaning you cannot trigger a bonus game with wilds. There are two wilds in Epic Holiday Party, each with individual functions and neither can substitute for the other:

• The Money Bag Wild: This is the regular wild and behaves much the wild in most games by replacing other symbols to create winning recipes. Represented by a bag full of gold coins, this wild can only appear on reels 2, 3, and 4. Whenever this wild lands, some gold coins will fly into the gift bag on top of the reels. The more coins you collect, the more your chances of triggering a jackpot win.

• The Multiplier Wild: Called the Snow Globe Multiplying Wild, it will only appear on the center reel on any row. Its special property is that apart from acting like a card joker and helping to create wins, it also adds a multiplier of up to x5 to those wins.

?The Free Spins Feature 

Get three or more Christmas tree scatters proclaiming ‘Free Games’ to land anywhere on the reels and you get 12 free spins including line payouts according to the number of Christmas trees, which triggered the feature. 

The free games work much like the base game, except that the low-value symbols are removed. Only the main characters will land along with the bonus symbols for premium wins. Also, bets will not be deducted for non-winning spins. Free spins will also retrigger if you get another 3 or more Christmas trees on the reels.

?The Level Upgrades Feature 

The Epic Holiday Party is held across 4 halls, each grander than the next, and with higher entrance fees. The game can be played across 4 levels, which you can choose. Each level upgrade comes with a higher bet. Values of premium symbols, scatters, wilds and their multipliers increase with every upgrade. The bonus features also increase at every higher level, along with the availability of the progressive jackpots. The following shows what to expect at each level:

• Base Level: x1 wild multipliers and no progressives
• Blonde Level: x2 wild multipliers and Mini Jackpot
• Brunette Level: x3 multiplier wilds with Mini and Minor Jackpots
• Spectacled-Girl level: x4 multiplier wilds, Mini, Minor, and Major jackpots
• Santa Level: X5 wild multipliers, Mini, Minor, Major and Grand jackpots

?The Jackpot Pick Feature

Each of the four jackpots can be awarded with the Jackpot Pick Feature, which is triggered at random whenever any wild appears during the base or bonus game. The Mini, Minor, Major, and Grand Jackpots are progressives, which start at $50, $250, $1,000, and $5,000 respectively. 

As mentioned, your chances of triggering the Jackpot Pick Feature depend on how many times the Money Bag Wild contributes to the gift bag. When the feature is activated, a special jackpot selection screen appears with 12 options to click on. Each click will reveal either of 4 jackpot symbols. When 3 identical jackpots are revealed, its corresponding value is awarded. 

?Epic Holiday Party ?

Though the game has a glamorous party and casino setting, Epic Holiday Party is still reminiscent of Santa Clause and his helpers. The game is sure to be a favourite in the festive season for its seasonal relevance, ‘attractive’ gameplay, and the win potential. 

The mid-variance game can pump out satisfying wins even in the base game, though the free spins remain special for their exclusively premium payouts. The wild multipliers and higher progressives are not worth much unless you play at higher levels. While nothing spectacular in terms of value, the progressives only serve to provide more winning avenues.