Sugar Rush Xmas Slot

Christmas is here again, because apparently time is a flat circle designed solely to torture us, and Pragmatic Play is back with Sugar Rush Xmas. It's a holiday reskin so sweet it could send a dentist into early retirement. Picture the original Sugar Rush, now dipped in eggnog, rolled in tinsel, and sprinkled with enough candy to violate three EU sugar regulations.

Yes, this 7×7 Cluster Pays monstrosity is highly volatile, because nothing says holiday cheer like watching your bankroll evaporate quicker than your will to attend another office Secret Santa. Still, there are multipliers, free spins, and a 5,000x max win lurking somewhere beneath the peppermint rubble.

If you want to play Sugar Rush Xmas without risking actual money (or your sanity), you can try the free demo at Casinos.com, the only place where losing imaginary cash somehow still feels festive.

The betting range on Sugar Rush Xmas by Pragmatic Play goes between 20c and $240 per spin. The Autoplay option allows you to set up to 100 automatic spins. As a Cluster Pays slot game, it features cascading reels as its primary feature. Each win triggers one, opening the potential to score more wins.

The slot’s symbols include holiday candies, lampoons, and various gummy bears in different colors. You need a combination of five or more to score a win. The highest payouts are for 15 or more pink lampoons. However, explosions in the same cluster can increase multipliers, which can reach up to x128. When a symbol pops in a cluster, it leaves a mark on its spot. When a second symbol explodes in the same place, it applies an x2 multiplier. This can occur multiple times, up to a maximum of x128.

The Sugar Rush Xmas slot has an RTP of 96.50%, which has become sort of standard for highly volatile Pragmatic Play online slots. With the Cluster Pays cascades and multipliers, you can hit maximum wins of 5,000x the bet.

It’s a pretty straightforward Pragmatic Play slot game: there’s a base game with one special feature and a bonus round triggered by scatters.

You need three to six scatters to receive ten to 30 free spins. During the bonus, all marked spots will remain active throughout the round. They don’t reset like in the base game, which can potentially lead to epic wins thanks to the multipliers. Plus, you’re not paying for the spins, and you can retrigger the bonus round with no free spins cap in sight.

The bonus round uses special reels but doesn’t have any other special features except the persistent spot.

Sugar Rush Xmas is exactly what you think it is: a Christmassy coat of paint slapped onto Pragmatic Play’s usual sugar-fuelled chaos. The multiplier-mark mechanic is still the star of the show, and yes, watching marks persist through the bonus round does trigger the same dopamine hit as finding an unexpected £10 note in last year’s winter coat.

Is it innovative? No. Is it fun? Sometimes. Is it volatile enough to ruin a perfectly nice December evening? Absolutely. But if you like Christmas, candy, and the kind of slot that can go from “jolly” to “financial frostbite” in one cascade, give it a whirl. And for the love of your savings account, try it free at Casinos.com first before playing in our best casinos online.