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This time, you will not be going to the edge of the cosmos. You will be having fun in the comfort of your home. Your living room, to be more precise. Do not worry, the monsters will not attack you. They will be sitting calmly on the top of the grid.
Again, you will have to feed them if you want the monsters to remain calm. The reels are placed in front of the fireplace, with Christmas stockings placed on their positions. Next to the fireplace, you will see the Christmas Tree, neatly decorated.
This is easier said than done. As you can see, they are only sitting on top of the grid, guarding their coins, looking grumpy. However, when they eat, they become generous. Make sure to remember the favourite candy of each monster. The easiest way to remember is to match the colours of the candies and the monsters.
Apart from monsters and candies, you will find tasty fruit, such as cherries, lemons, plums, and watermelons. Among the top-paying regular symbols, you have lucky seven, bar, and the bell. The green vortex is the Wild that substitutes for all regular symbols.
I love pokie machines themed after holidays. In most cases, they represent a tasty combination of easy gameplay and decent features. As you may suppose, Xmas Invaders pokie is no different. It benefits from 5 reels, 3 rows, and 30 fixed paylines that pay left to right, beginning from the leftmost reel.
3-of-a-kind is the minimum for landing payouts. Set the bet somewhere between $0.30 and $90, and you are ready to go. Xmas Invaders slot is of medium-to-high volatility and offers a max payout of 1,200x per spin. Xmas Invaders RTP is 96.00%.
It all comes down to monsters eating candy. And it all comes down to how much each of the monsters can eat. Sometimes, they get full instantly and you trigger features in no time at all. Sometimes, it takes them forever to satisfy their hunger.
Based on my experience, the green monster is the most generous. I had trouble with the violet monster. It had an amazing appetite and was almost never full. Once they start throwing up gold coins, you will trigger the features.
With the green monster, you trigger the Free Games feature. You receive 24 free games with additional Wilds. This gives you more chances of landing wins. During the feature, you can land more candy, allowing you to trigger more free spins or other additional features.
The easiest feature that I triggered in the Xmas Invaders pokie machine was the Free Games feature. Somehow, the green monster was the easiest to feed. On the other hand, the total wins were not very big. My wins ranged from 20x to 30x.
Feed the pink monsters with pink candy and you will trigger the Pin Win Bonus or the Hold and Win feature. You get 3 respins and 5 balls carrying cash values appear on the grid. All balls that land on the grid will remain locked in their positions. Each new ball on the reels resets the number of respins to 3.
Bals land in different colours. Each colour brings different values. You can land balls carrying 1x-30x or jackpots, which go between 50x and 300x. Fill all the cells and you will win the 1,000x Ultra Jackpot. I never got the Ultra Jackpot. The most I won was 66x.
When the purple monster eats enough purple candy, you will trigger the Pick’em Bonus. This Pick and Win feature gives you 20 cells with small purple monsters. Here, you pick the monsters to reveal prizes. When you get 3 prizes of the same kind, you finish the bonus and collect the wins. My biggest win in the Pick’em Bonus was around 40x.
My biggest remark when it comes to the Xmas Invaders pokie machine is that the 2024 release is exactly the same as the original Fruit Invaders.
The monsters, features, grid, RTP, and max payout are all the same, which is a bit of a let-down.
I love pokie machines with the holiday spirit. However, I don’t like it when they do not include any innovation. An additional extra feature would have done the trick. Or maybe that’s just an action junkie talking, eh?
If I rate the overall gaming experience, I would have to give the Xmas Invaders pokie the same mark as I gave the original pokie, which is 7.7.
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