Fat Santa is a refreshingly different festive pokie that celebrates the portly profile of everyone's favourite red-suited gift-giver and has a Free Spins bonus round. There's no shortage of Christmas-themed games in the world, but few focus so squarely on the fact that Santa has to eat an awful lot of mince pies on Christmas Eve. This has an inevitable girth-expanding effect on Santa, and if you get really lucky in this game you can expand the girth of your virtual wallet to the tune of up to 6,400 times your bet. You'll also enjoy plenty of Christmas spirit along the way, so read on and we'll tell you all about it.
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Fat Santa Info & Facts
Welcome to the North Pole
Fat Santa by innovative game developer Push Gaming is a five-reel pokie with five rows and fifty paylines. The main game takes place near the home of Santa, which - as you'll recall from the letter-writing years of your childhood - is situated in the North Pole. The game background shows what we assume to be Santa's traditional log cabin home, and the animated snow is falling heavily, covering both the cabin and nearby fir trees in a thick blanket of cold white stuff.
The symbols on the reels are four different kinds of baubles (marked with clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades, respectively), a gift box, a snowman, Rudolf the reindeer, a Christmas elf and Fat Santa, who acts as a wild. Another wild symbol that's in play is a Christmas Pie, and while all symbols have a fun cartoon style, we still maintain that the pie looks good enough to eat.
One thing that might surprise you when you play Fat Santa is that it doesn't have a particularly festive soundtrack, and that's because the main game isn't actually set at Christmas time. Rest assured that the special features are both set at Christmas, and so that fact will be reflected in more seasonal audio, complete with the obligatory sleigh bells
Actually playing the main game is as easy as spinning the reels. You need to get three or more matching symbols on the same pay line to win a prize, and the more you match, the more you will win. Access the Settings menu and you can adjust the music and sound effects as well as activate Turbo Mode so that you can enjoy more spins per hour. An autoplay menu allows you to play up to 100 spins automatically, and you can set parameters to stop autoplay when you win or lose a predetermined amount.
Santa's Sleigh Feature
Fat Santa has two special features, and the first of those is called Santa's Sleigh. This feature can be triggered at random at any time during the main game when the reels are spinning. You'll know when that has happened because Santa will drive his sleigh across your screen, and he'll leave Christmas Pie symbols on the reels as he passes over them. That's good news for you because you'll recall that Christmas Pies are wild in this game, so when the other symbols come to rest on the reels it will be easier for them to make winning combinations.
Fat Santa Free Games Feature
The Free Games bonus round feature is the main attraction in Fat Santa, and this is where the title of the pokie finally makes sense. To trigger this feature, you need to see a Santa symbol land on the reels at the same time as one or more Christmas Pie symbols. You will then be awarded an initial stack of free spins.
When this feature has been triggered the action will take place in the living room of a house that's been decorated for Christmas. The game reels will be framed by fairy lights and to the right of the main grid, you'll see a special meter. This shows a column of four empty pie-shaped slots on the left and a column of five Santa-shaped slots on the right.
The reels will spin and if a Christmas Pie appears, Santa will move toward it and eat it. An empty pie-shaped slot will fill up as a consequence. Fill all five pie-shaped slots and they will be traded to illuminate one Santa-shaped slot. The Santa on the reels will then get fatter and you'll be given more free spins so that he can start eating pies again.
REMEMBER: The Santa symbol is wild throughout, so the bigger he gets, the easier it will be for him to give you some decent wins. If you can keep eating pies for long enough, Santa will gradually expand in size to the point where he completely fills the reels.
It is worth noting that this special feature can be triggered on demand if you are willing to pay for it. To the left of the main game grid, you'll see a large red button with a value on it. That value is related to your stake, and if you press the button you can pay the stated value to trigger the Free Games feature on the very next spin of the reels.
Fat Santa: A Tasty Festive Treat
Fat Santa is a thoroughly entertaining online pokie that ticks all the boxes needed to be a festive favourite and still does enough things differently to make it stand out from every other Christmas-themed game. The random Santa's Sleigh feature is very welcome, but it's the Fat Santa's pie-eating activities in the Free Games feature that you'll appreciate the most. Drive your sleigh over to your favourite online casino to play Fat Santa today and enjoy the pies!
