Invading Vegas Las Christmas Slot Review

05/12/2023 | Categories: Play'n GO Slots | Published by: Joe | Last updated: 05/01/2024

Play’n GO is always making big moves. In late November 2023, they announced a sponsorship agreement with the MoneyGram Haas F1 Team. Hence, the company’s logo will now adorn the vehicles of drivers Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen in 2024. On the gaming front, Play’n GO distributed five products in November that this provider’s team created. These titles were Sherwood Gold, the long-awaited Gargantoonz, Legacy of Dynasties, Megadon Feeding Frenzy, and Invading Vegas – Las Christmas. The latter is the game that most caught our eye from this batch, and seeing as we have not reviewed any of these, the choice fell on Invading Vegas because we try to catch up with Play’n GO’s catalog every once in a while, giving you the low down on what exciting new products they are offering up.

Invading Vegas – Las Christmas debuted on November sixteen. It is the X-mas edition of the retro extraterrestrial invasion game Play’n GO released in late 2022. In the first week of its distribution, it has managed to enter the top ten rankings in markets like Ireland, New Zealand, Denmark, Finland, The Netherlands, and Canada. It looked like a visually interesting spinner at first sight, so here we are, giving it a go and doing a deep scan for you.

Theme & Design

We would say that Invading Vegas Las Christmas has three themes. The first is a holiday X-mas one, then there is the alien invasion motif, and lastly, we have Sin City as the setting of this reel spinner. Thinking about what online gambling products we could compare this one to, Booming Games’ Space Cows To The Moon, which we recently reviewed, first came to mind. Yet, we can also throw in Galactic Girls from Eyecon due to its 1950s vintage vibes and Betsoft’s Expansion. We have found around a hundred aliens visiting Earth interactive gaming titles in the slotverse, and we would rank this one as one of the better options out there.

The backdrop here is the identical Vegas street from the original, except the aliens have wreaked havoc on it, and it appears they have taken over. Snow and a green mist fill the air as the reels spin in the foreground, supplying a vibrant contrast to the gloomy backdrop. The game has a bygone Vegas-era feel, intentionally so, as much of the visuals are reminiscent of 1950 and 1960s City of Lights and sci-fi movies. They are painterly illustrations that are well-done and eye-pleasing to us. You get cool symbols and win animations in Las Christmas, and the base soundtrack in this slot is a traditional Christmas tune. Yet, when you hit a win, you get your old-school slot machine alert effect, and some lounge music kicks in.

The buttons panel has the standard Play’n GO configuration, but it is more minimal than what this provider usually gives. Thus, it feels more compact. As is always the case with slots from this company, the betting interface features the spin functions on the right, with the bet adjuster just under the reel grid.

Invading Vegas Las Christmas

Specs & Gameplay

Invading Vegas Las Christmas is a medium variance reel-spinning title from Play’n GO with a default RTP of 96.2%, which can range. At some sites, it can go down to 84.2% but is also available in an 87.2%, 91.1%, 94.2%, and 96.2% variant. The max win here is x2,500, and the probability of you hitting that win is one in one hundred million. The game utilizes a 5×3 grid with twenty paylines, with bets starting at $0.1 and ending at $50.

The low-pay tokens of Invading Vegas Las Christmas are four different-color chips with card suit symbols on them, all producing max wins of x0.8 for five-of-a-kind combos. The premiums are the five smiling character symbols, yielding wins starting at x1.6 for the lowest-paying one to x8 for the Elvis impersonator when five instances of them show up on the 5×3 layout. All winning combinations here pay left to right on adjacent reels, with only the top prize per line getting paid out per selected line.

The wild in this slot is an alien, which can produce wins of x30 when he appears five times on the same spin, and he can do so stacked, replacing regular pay images. The scatter of Invading Vegas Las Christmas is a spinning UFO with the word bonus attached to it. You also get mystery boxes that can reveal multiplier wilds, but more on that below.

Bonus Features

The mystery symbols discussed above can uncover a wild carrying a multiplier of x2, x3, x5, x10 attached or a matching pay token when they land. Another nifty feature here is the Lock on Re-spin one, which activates on the central reel when the first two display same-symbol stacks, but no win occurs. Note that stacked alien wilds can pop in on the central reel in a re-spin, moving right on each subsequent one until they move off the grid. During the walk the alien wild may drop three to twelve mystery tokens on marked positions.

Lastly, we have the free spins round, activated when three UFO scatters materialize in view on the same reel rotation. During this move, the walking alien wild moves left until it disappears from view.

Invading Vegas Las Christmas