Story Of Vikings Christmas Edition Slot Review
A fjord at dusk, ravens crossing a violet-grey sky, and holly and fairy lights draped over hammered Celtic knotwork. Story Of Vikings Christmas Edition dresses a Norse frame in tinsel, and the strange thing is how little the festive layer matters once the reels move: this is a game built almost entirely on mid-spin chaos, with a modifier that can land on any base game spin and reshape the board before it stops. A Christmas reskin that plays like a slot with something to prove.
Spinomenal built it on a 6×4 grid with 50 paylines, an RTP of 96.3% and a top named prize of 1,000x the line bet for six wilds on a winning line. It’s the festive take on Story Of Vikings The Golden Era, and this time the payout maths holds up.
The Reels and the Wild
Wins pay across 50 fixed lines on the six-reel, four-row grid, left to right, with the bet per line carried over into the free spins round when it triggers. It’s a conventional line-based setup rather than anything cluster-shaped or ways-based, and the game doesn’t complicate it. Stakes are set per spin and divide across the lines from there.
Because the grid runs six reels wide, winning lines are six symbols long, and the paytable’s top prize sits on the rarest of them: the wild line. The wild substitutes for any symbol except the Bonus symbol, and a full line of six wilds pays 1,000x the line bet. Shorter wild-assisted lines simply stand in for whatever completes them.
The Bonus symbol does no substituting of its own. Its only job is landing on the first and last reels to open the feature round, which is covered below.
Random Modifiers: Multiplier, Synced Reels and Power Spin
While the reels spin in the base game, one of three modifiers can appear at random. Each arrives with its own level, and the level decides how much of the board it gets to boss around. The same three features return in the free spins round, drawn from a wheel rather than at random. Because they interrupt the spin rather than following it, there’s a moment mid-rotation where the board changes shape under you.
Win Multiplier
The simplest of the three. Any win in the round is multiplied by the level drawn:
- Level 1: win x2
- Level 2: win x3
- Level 3: win x4
Nothing is removed and nothing is mirrored; the win just comes back bigger. It’s the modifier that asks least of the board and rewards least in exchange, though x4 on a lucky six-of-a-kind is still x4.
Synced Reels
This one mirrors reels so they spin out identical to one another. The level sets the range:
- Level 1: reels 3 and 4 synced
- Level 2: reels 3, 4 and 5 synced
- Level 3: reels 2 through 5 synced
On synced reels, medium symbols appear as colossus symbols, oversized and hard to miss. The maths is what makes it work: identical adjacent reels make long matching runs far more likely, and at Level 3 four of the six reels are clones. Four mirrored reels pushing out colossus blocks is where the base game’s best-looking wins come from.
Power Spin
Power Spin strips low-value royals from the board for the current round. The higher the level, the deeper the cut:
- Level 1: 10 and J removed
- Level 2: 10, J, Q and K removed
- Level 3: 10, J, Q, K and A removed
At Level 3 the royals are gone entirely, leaving only the premium and special symbols in play for that spin. Every gap a royal leaves is a gap a higher-paying symbol can fill, which is why the deepest cut is the one worth having.
Free Spins and the Wheel of Features
One Bonus symbol on the first reel counting from the left, plus one on the sixth reel, awards 10 free spins. The bet per line stays the same as the round that triggered it, so the feature plays at the stake you were already comfortable with. Both symbols have to land on the same spin, and neither does anything on its own.
Before the spins begin, a wheel of features appears. One spin of the wheel decides which of the modifiers runs on every free spin of the round, so the feature you draw isn’t a one-off hit; it’s the engine for all ten spins. What the base game hands out at random, the bonus round commits to for its whole duration.
Retriggers feed back into that wheel rather than simply topping up the count:
- Landing the trigger again awards another spin of the wheel
- Each retrigger also adds 2 free spins
- The new wheel spin can combine a second feature with the current one, or upgrade the feature already running
- The wheel can be spun a maximum of five times
After the fifth attempt, the Bonus symbol is removed from the reels for the rest of the round, and whatever combination you’ve built is what you keep. The stacking stays bounded without being cut short.
It’s worth spelling out what stacking means here. A Level 1 Synced Reels draw followed by a Win Multiplier retrigger gives you mirrored reels and multiplied wins on the same spins; a second Synced Reels draw can raise the level instead, widening the mirrored run. Five wheel spins is enough room for a round to look nothing like the one it started as.
Our Honest Verdict
Overall Rating: 7.7/10
You come to this fjord for one thing: the feeling of a board that can change shape mid-spin. Most of the time it doesn’t, and you’re playing a plain 50-line game with a 1,000x line-bet top prize, watching two reels for Bonus symbols. That’s the honest rhythm of it.
The strength is the free spins wheel. Committing to one modifier for the whole round, then letting retriggers stack a second on top, gives the bonus a shape most festive reskins never bother building. The weakness is everything around it: strip the modifiers away and the base game is standard line-pays, and the Win Multiplier is a thin draw when the other two reshuffle the reels themselves.
This one’s for players who want their spins eventful and don’t mind waiting on a wheel to get there. Anyone after a quiet, steady line game will find the fairy lights pretty and the fjord cold. For the rest, it’s a warm enough fire to sit by.
Story Of Vikings Christmas Edition FAQs
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How do you trigger free spins in Story Of Vikings Christmas Edition?
One Bonus symbol on the first reel counting from the left, and one on the sixth reel, awards 10 free spins. -
What does the wheel of features do in the free spins round?
When free spins trigger, you spin a wheel that determines which feature appears on each spin of the round. Retriggers give another spin of the wheel plus 2 free spins, letting you combine or upgrade features, up to a maximum of five wheel spins. -
What does the Power Spin modifier do?
Power Spin strips low-value royals from the board for the current spin. Level 1 drops the 10 and J, Level 2 also drops Q and K, and Level 3 drops every royal including the A. -
What do Synced Reels do?
Synced Reels mirrors reels so they display identical symbols. Level 1 syncs reels 3 and 4, Level 2 syncs reels 3 to 5, and Level 3 syncs reels 2 to 5. Medium symbols on synced reels appear as colossus symbols. -
How much do six wilds pay in Story Of Vikings Christmas Edition?
Six wild symbols on a winning line pay 1,000x the line bet. The wild counts as any symbol except the Bonus symbol. -
What is the RTP of Story Of Vikings Christmas Edition?
The RTP is 96.3%. -
How many paylines does Story Of Vikings Christmas Edition have?
The game has 50 fixed paylines across its 6×4 grid. -
Who makes Story Of Vikings Christmas Edition?
Spinomenal.
